Rough couple of days
I went to Portland Maine this last weekend to go skiing. It was tons of fun to hang out with friends and engage in my favorite sport; it even snowed about 8 inches on sunday, making for a really excellent experience. The fun ended pretty quickly when we left though.
We caught a plane leaving a little earlier from the airport in order to avoid missing our connecting flight in New York. Turns out it didn't matter that much because when we landed, we had to wait in the plane for nearly 3 hours before being able to get into the terminal. Aparently it had snowed which delayed things significantly and there was no place for us to park the plane. Eventually we got off, expecting to have missed our connecting flight. We were lucky to find out that it had not left yet, and we rushed to the gate and boarded our plane just in time...
Only to find out there was a huge delay and we had to wait another 4 hours or so before takeoff. I probably wouldn't have minded, if I could have had a drink, but apparently that is against the rules. Finally, we take off and ultimately land in Atlanta at about 4am or so. Our luggage is not there, and we are assured it will be delivered to our homes. We are all eager to get home so we head to Michael's car only to find it won't start. So we have to take a $40 cab ride to my house, only to have to drive Stephen home, then drive to Acworth. I end up sleeping on Michael's couch at about 7am.
I get up to find out my phone is not working, which is a giant pain in the ass since the courier company trying to bring me my stuff has been trying to call me. AT&T is not particularly helpful in this since I just managed to get it turned back on today after hassling with some regularity.
In any case, I got my phone turned back on today and scheduled getting my bag so some things are getting back on track. Unfortunately I woke up this morning fairly sick. I would have called in but at that time my phone wasn't working so I had to go. I got to leave early, but it still sucked working a couple hours sick.
Let hope this weekend will go a little better than this week has.
We caught a plane leaving a little earlier from the airport in order to avoid missing our connecting flight in New York. Turns out it didn't matter that much because when we landed, we had to wait in the plane for nearly 3 hours before being able to get into the terminal. Aparently it had snowed which delayed things significantly and there was no place for us to park the plane. Eventually we got off, expecting to have missed our connecting flight. We were lucky to find out that it had not left yet, and we rushed to the gate and boarded our plane just in time...
Only to find out there was a huge delay and we had to wait another 4 hours or so before takeoff. I probably wouldn't have minded, if I could have had a drink, but apparently that is against the rules. Finally, we take off and ultimately land in Atlanta at about 4am or so. Our luggage is not there, and we are assured it will be delivered to our homes. We are all eager to get home so we head to Michael's car only to find it won't start. So we have to take a $40 cab ride to my house, only to have to drive Stephen home, then drive to Acworth. I end up sleeping on Michael's couch at about 7am.
I get up to find out my phone is not working, which is a giant pain in the ass since the courier company trying to bring me my stuff has been trying to call me. AT&T is not particularly helpful in this since I just managed to get it turned back on today after hassling with some regularity.
In any case, I got my phone turned back on today and scheduled getting my bag so some things are getting back on track. Unfortunately I woke up this morning fairly sick. I would have called in but at that time my phone wasn't working so I had to go. I got to leave early, but it still sucked working a couple hours sick.
Let hope this weekend will go a little better than this week has.