i'm in an airport

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.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/931354.jpg

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!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed, we will have to meet another time.

Indeed we shall. Find your local TV station and tell them to buy some software from me, then I can come and install it in Honolulu.

My brother just approached a friendly looking queue-monitoring dude at the barriers and waved boarding passes at him and explained and the guy said he'd let us through. So my brother waved at me, I gathered up the parents and husband, and we walked down and the guy let us in, one at a time, into the front of different queues. Unfortunately (for them) the people behind us (queuing for a flight due to leave in about three hours or so) thought they'd got in on our wee game of queue-jumping and followed us down only to be told to get back in the queue upon production of their not-terribly-urgent boarding passes. The queue in which they'd now lost their places.

by the way in case anyone is wondering, the current terror alert level is:

ORANGE

xposts

Can you just pretend you've not heard the call though, sit and drink, then go "whoops, silly me" and get let into the front of the queue though? We only did it because the silly mare on the BA check-in desk wouldn't check us in on standby seats until the check-in closed even though there were stacks of empty seats on the flight.

also yay for gr8080's boarding pass

Indeed, this has been by strategy. xpost

That's a brilliant strategy, and one I may try in future, to the wrath of everyone else in the queue. There is nothing more embarrassing than being the last person on a plane when everyone else is settled though, and everyone glaring at you because they know fine well they'd have got an early take-off slot if you hadn't been fannying around elsewhere.

so jetlagged

I'm in an airport, waiting for the Delta Shuttle, and there's this weird lounge filled with Apple computers and no one is in here and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be in here.

I'm not in an airport, I am in a tent just outside and airport waiting to get let into an airport.

An hour and a half to drop bags and then a last minute gate change from one end of the airport to the other. We'll be at least an hour late departing and there is no catering within quater of a mile of this gate, bah.

i'm in an airport

how's that itch?

I'm on year airplane, preparing fr takeoffs

how's that itch?

-- omar little, Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

ehh.

HI DERE.

Chilling at LAX. No earlier OC flight home than 6:11 pm, so I'm considering Encounter for a bit.

isn't encounter like a spiderwork of iron death right now?