{"id":908,"date":"2008-10-14T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=908"},"modified":"2008-10-14T21:43:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:43:25","slug":"the-corner-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/908","title":{"rendered":"The Corner of My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Body still<\/strong> on west-coast time, but with an east-coast schedule. There is much caffeine in my future.<\/p>\n

Thoughts from this past week:<\/p>\n

Airline travel really sucks. There is no space in coach, and the seats are really uncomfortable \u2014 my back still hurts. Next thing you know they will charge for air.<\/p>\n

Note to TSA guy: if you are going to admonish me for not following the procedure going through the checkpoint (my shoes were on top<\/em> of my laptop), it would help if someone would tell us what the procedures actually are. They aren’t posted anywhere<\/em>. So I’ll say now what I couldn’t say then: bite me.<\/p>\n

To the lady that tilted her seat back, almost pinning me in. And then giving me and my row-mates a movie-theater international-symbol-for-annoyed scowling-over-the-shoulder glance every time someone got up (it’s a six-hour flight) and having to grab your headrest. Caveat emptor. Thanks for finally cluing in somewhere over Nevada and straightening your seat.<\/p>\n

It is not really comforting to know that the cabbies in Monterey are just as crazy as the ones in DC. We ran a red light. Not a yellow-oh-it-just-turned red light. A red, one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand three red light. We weren’t in that much of a hurry. The tip was a thank-you for not killing us.<\/p>\n

The government travel system shouldn’t book me on a flight as standby. It’s not fun to get to the counter and be told, “Oh, we’re oversold on this flight. We’ll try to get you on.” I made it, but \u2026 United \u2014 you overbooked a 28-passenger flight by at least 4 seats. What’s up with that? Even if you really routinely get >15% cancellations, do you not understand small-number statistics? It was a hop from Monterey to San Francisco, and you paid cab fare to SF and a round-trip ticket for each one. Wow.<\/p>\n

Murphy’s law does not disappoint. Backup scripts failed a week ago, knowing I wasn’t around to check. Of course, most of us were gone, so there wasn’t much to back up. Barely made a dent in the stuff that piled up while I was away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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