i'm in an airport

seriously: hilton

but first milk that shot of cuervo

hiltooooon

drinking and layovers were made for each other

drinking and _____ were made for each other

travelling without drinking? I'd rather listen to jamiroquai

btw: that pint of gin&tonic ended up costing me $12. at least it was tanqueray and not well.

the only thing on this side of security is a starbucks and i think its closed now. i "landed" and got my luggage on airline A, but 12 hours late to catch my flight on airline B. Airline B's ticket desk isn't open till 5:30 AM, and even though they were there when i first got there, they couldn't get me standby for friday travel until friday.

airline A is the one that fucked up, but basically i fucked myself by trying to think this would work.

also, airline B is the expensive flight that work paid for and airline A was the cheap one i bought on my own.

jesus christ.
well, you live and learn, I suppose. I have had similarly extra-long standby layovers but never overnight.

I will use MINDWAVES to send you some MINDWINE

RED OR WHITE

i'd take a MINDBOARDINGPASS over mindwine.

tomboto are you extracting the mindwine from your very own mindgrape?

zing?

lol no 30 rock ref idk if tombot watches it tho

gr80 does o'hare have free wireless?

yeah i'd probably take having a seat over both alcohol and not listening to jamiroquai, but the important thing is once you have a seat you can do both of those

the worst is trying to stake out a spot for leg-resting and maybe lying down... hopefully you don't have to deal with tvs tuned to cnn every twenty feet since you're not past security? then again it's probably linoleum instead of carpet, yikes.

yeah i am sitting on the ground at the bottom of the escalators that people arriving come down to the baggage claim area on.

wifi is $6/24hrs which i figure is worth it in this circumstance.

i think i might pack up computer and try and sleep for a little bit.

now my phone's fully charged again so i can move to a more comfortable spot, too.

I don't watch 30 rock but I am sad that MINDWINE is not my og idea

grady in your situation I would consider hitting up some free online games

doukutsu is pretty good

also the demo for weird world return to infinite space

also N

seriously just google search for the letter N

where you at gr8ee, newark?

i'm at o'hare, max.

my ipod is charged now too. i think i'm gonna try and find a safer/more comfortable spot to curl up for a few hours.

future tip for all fliers: if youre somewhere around a continental "president's lounge" you can get free wireless just by parking near there

i got about 3.5 hours of sleep on a wooden bench.

the ticket desk that wasn't supposed to be open till 5:30 was open at 4:00. its a good thing too, because my situation required i get in a separate line being serviced by only two ticket agents. when i got in line there were only three or four people ahead of me but by the time i was at the front, there was a good 40 people in line behind me. apparently an entire flight to orlando got cancelled.

but i got on standby for the same flight i missed yesterday, and as of 30 mins ago i was the only one on the standby list.

i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going back for another.

also, i'm at a little desk with a stool that looks like it used to have payphones at it as i type this. not slouched on the floor somewhere. life is so much better this side of security!

i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going to have another.

Is that 2 or 3?

wow bagels are making my morning apparently.

ha

ed when do you get to chicago again?

Tomorrow, I will be able to check in in 5 minutes, hopefully scoring my favorite seat on the plane.

I am celebrating going to america by spelling the american way

if all goes well i wont be here anymore, but can't say for sure yet.

Checked in, I shall be at the airport tomorrow. Heathrow T4 seems to have the worst bars even of the shit selection at Heathrow. They seem to franchise them out to the worst chain pubs and restaurants in Britain. At least in T1 they have a giraffe franchise and you can get an acceptable bloody mary. T4 has weatherspoons, EST EST EST and Garfunkles.

Will of course be hell tomorrow as half of Britain will be attempting to leave through Heathrow.

Wildcat cabin crew strikes/walkouts notwithstanding.

Indeed. Also, I was dismayed to see that my plane was over two hours late yesterday.

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My goodness, haven't you people heard of Eurostar!

Carbon neutral and running into Europe at 186 mph!

Not to chicago it isn't

I am a climate criminal, I know this.

Grady, you still in Chicago?

yes.

on standby for a flight that leaves in 90 mins.

if i dont make this flight it probably wont be till tomorrow morning that i get out of here.

Good luck with that.

If not then you better plan some good eating to get you through the night. I recommend Tony Lao's down in china town. Get and order of Tony Lao's Chicken. It rocks.

Being on standby is the crappiest thing ever. Be thankful you aren't doing it at Gatwick which has the worst security queues ever when they check you onto your flight with 30 minutes to go until the plane pushes back off stance and there's still a two-hour security queue to get through when you're in a party of five, one of whom is elderly and cannot rush anywhere terribly effectively.

When we came back from Tampa earlier this year, there were the five of us on standby and only four standby places left on the plane, so my brother got left there for 24 hours while we just headed on home without him. He then got the only place on the next flight or would have been there for a further 24 hours. Your pain is being felt, gr8080.

(disclaimer: I have no idea what the security queues are like at O'Hare, but they can't be as bad as Gatwick where all domestic and international passengers get herded through the same bottleneck)

O'Hare can be pretty horrific, at least in the international Terminal. However the bar is right by the security queue and you can sit and drink until it dwindles or your flight gets so close that they start pulling people out of the queue.

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WOOOOOO!