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I'm finally flying home. This flight was supposed to leave at noon, but we sat on the ground for a while waiting for a flight attendant. I slept thru the takeoff. From my POV, every now and than I would glance out the window and see outside of the gate. And then suddenly the view was replaced with a blue hazy horizon, and green farms and brown ( Read more... )

I look down, through the window, and see Louisiana crawl by under me. The engine is rumbling, low and insistent, right outside my window. If I could stretch out my right arm, my hand would be inside an impossible-to-imagine hell of screaming steel teeth, tearing apart a white hot fireball, torturing the air, it's dying scream carrying me across ( Read more... )

Great view of the right engine.

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Rochester Minnesota Airport does wifi right. It's free, fast, and doesn't have a captive portal page.

(Update: it's not as good as I thought. They block all XMPP IM sessions. This makes me start thinking "deep packet inspection" and/or "transparent proxy". I'm going to write them a nasty letter.)

I got up at way too early, packed my bag, vacated my hotel room, printed my boarding pass (as always, finding a printer was a PITA), and took at taxi from the hotel to the DFW airport. The flight from DFW to SEA was almost empty, but still uncomfortable. AA's seat pitch is about 1/2 inch shorter then the length of my upper legs. Then a taxi ride ( Read more... )