adouglas
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6:30 am Pacific time Sunday: Wake up, having slept poorly again. Maybe four, maybe five hours.
12:05: Depart hotel for Palm Springs Int'l to catch 1:00 flight
12:20: Brain fade and miss the exit. Correct this, fuel rental car to avoid $6+ per gallon fuel charge.
12:37: Arrive at PSP ticket counter to find a dejected Jack Williams, who missed his flight. Am told that despite the fact that I can saunter lazily to the gate and get on the plane well before 1:00, I will not be allowed to do so because you have to get a boarding pass 30 minutes before departure (news to me).
12:45-about 1:15: Get rescheduled onto a 4:15 flight out of LAX, arriving home a little after midnight. Rent a car (waive insurance), give Jack a ride.
1:15: Scrape fender of rental car on light pole stanchion pulling out of parking space in haste.
1:15-about 3:00: Drive towards LA with Jack. Have great conversation. Do the bonding thing. Drop Jack at Ontario International.
3:00-4:12: Finish driving to LAX. Call Visa along the way to file insurance claim for scraped fender.
4:13: Arrive at rental car return lot two minutes before flight departure. Screwed again.
5:00: Finally make it to the head of the ticket line. Reschedule for the redeye, ETA 5:45 am Eastern. (I have a critical 8 am client meeting.)
5:20: Call Mrs. D. She is Not Happy about the prospect of picking me up at oh-dark-thirty. Did I mention she was Not Happy? REALLY Not Happy?
5:30-10:00: Enjoy the amenities of the American terminal at LAX. It is a DUMP.
10:15: Plane departs. At least I've got a bulkhead seat.
10:15 Pacific - 6:30 am Eastern: Get maybe two hours of sleep on the plane.
6:50: Wife picks me up. She is still Not Happy. We get stuck in traffic. I put on the fresh shirt she brought. It is now 24 hours since I have bathed.
8:05 am: Make it to critical client meeting. Meeting goes swell. Catch a ride to regular job. Arrive at 9:45.
9:45 - 6:30 pm. Work full day.
6:15: Catch ride with co-worker to airport of original departure where car has been left. Embarrassed as hell, because she's young and gorgeous and I'm starting to smell like a yak.
7:00: Drive straight from airport to Dunkin' Donuts for box o' joe and dozen donuts (nurse fuel), then to market for big red rose, vase and card.
7:30: Deliver knicker-detwisting, jet-temperature-reducing peace offerings to lovely wife at hospital.
8:00 pm Eastern: Arrive home.
I have had a grand total of about 16 hours sleep in the last four and a half days. In the last 40 hours I've slep less than four hours. I have not bathed in about 40 hours.
But I made it!
G'nite, all!
12:05: Depart hotel for Palm Springs Int'l to catch 1:00 flight
12:20: Brain fade and miss the exit. Correct this, fuel rental car to avoid $6+ per gallon fuel charge.
12:37: Arrive at PSP ticket counter to find a dejected Jack Williams, who missed his flight. Am told that despite the fact that I can saunter lazily to the gate and get on the plane well before 1:00, I will not be allowed to do so because you have to get a boarding pass 30 minutes before departure (news to me).
12:45-about 1:15: Get rescheduled onto a 4:15 flight out of LAX, arriving home a little after midnight. Rent a car (waive insurance), give Jack a ride.
1:15: Scrape fender of rental car on light pole stanchion pulling out of parking space in haste.
1:15-about 3:00: Drive towards LA with Jack. Have great conversation. Do the bonding thing. Drop Jack at Ontario International.
3:00-4:12: Finish driving to LAX. Call Visa along the way to file insurance claim for scraped fender.
4:13: Arrive at rental car return lot two minutes before flight departure. Screwed again.
5:00: Finally make it to the head of the ticket line. Reschedule for the redeye, ETA 5:45 am Eastern. (I have a critical 8 am client meeting.)
5:20: Call Mrs. D. She is Not Happy about the prospect of picking me up at oh-dark-thirty. Did I mention she was Not Happy? REALLY Not Happy?
5:30-10:00: Enjoy the amenities of the American terminal at LAX. It is a DUMP.
10:15: Plane departs. At least I've got a bulkhead seat.
10:15 Pacific - 6:30 am Eastern: Get maybe two hours of sleep on the plane.
6:50: Wife picks me up. She is still Not Happy. We get stuck in traffic. I put on the fresh shirt she brought. It is now 24 hours since I have bathed.
8:05 am: Make it to critical client meeting. Meeting goes swell. Catch a ride to regular job. Arrive at 9:45.
9:45 - 6:30 pm. Work full day.
6:15: Catch ride with co-worker to airport of original departure where car has been left. Embarrassed as hell, because she's young and gorgeous and I'm starting to smell like a yak.
7:00: Drive straight from airport to Dunkin' Donuts for box o' joe and dozen donuts (nurse fuel), then to market for big red rose, vase and card.
7:30: Deliver knicker-detwisting, jet-temperature-reducing peace offerings to lovely wife at hospital.
8:00 pm Eastern: Arrive home.
I have had a grand total of about 16 hours sleep in the last four and a half days. In the last 40 hours I've slep less than four hours. I have not bathed in about 40 hours.
But I made it!
G'nite, all!
