0745 - Wake up in Atlantic City
0810 - Shitty cinnamon roll at Starbucks
0845 - Train to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station
1030 - Train to Philadelphia International Airport
1115 - Shitty pastrami sandwich at airport bar
1200 - CNN Headline News at gate
1300 - Plain M&Ms at gate
1325 - Mechanical problem reported on aircraft: delay = 1 hour
1425 - Board new plane
1525 - On plane, rereading "Breakfast at Tiffany's", waiting to takeoff
1630 - Still reading, waiting to takeoff
1730 - Waiting to takeoff, planning various means of homicide for chatty, stupid woman in row behind me
1745 - Next in line to takeoff!
1750 - Fuel low, taxi back to gate
1755 - Flight cancelled due to weather somewhere between Philly and KC
1800 - In line to arrange alternative flight
1900 - In line to arrange alternative flight, planning where to stash body of chatty, stupid woman next to me, who is loudly calling local hotels to ask for smoking exclamation point, not non-smoking underlined, rooms
2000 - Gate agent explains that the next available flight from Philly to KC will be Sunday (4 days from now)
2015 - Get a flight to DC
2100 - Waiting in airport
2200 - Waiting in airport, shitty slice of Sbarro forced down gullet
2250 - Thunderstorm begins
2315 - Board flight for DC
2400 - Sitting on plane, at gate, watching rain fall
0100 - Plane in line for runway, finish "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
0115 - Liftoff
0215 - Touchdown in DC
0230 - Ring wrong apartment, Serpentine's neighbor buzzes me in anyway, sleep
0930 - Book flight from Baltimore to KC
0945 - I needed that shower in the worst way
1000 - Delightful ginger scones (again) and some kind of super black tea at Teaism
1100 - Wander around Dupont
1200 - Blogger
1530 - Baltimore by train?
1930 - KC by air?
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0130 - KC by air?
P.S. It's 0220 right now, and Stolz's plane just landed. I hope to be in Tonganoxie by 0300 to pick him up. Good times.
Floyd
Yeah, so it actually went:
1500 - Board train to Baltimore
1600 - Checked in at airport
1700 - Waiting for flight
1800 - Waiting for flight
1900 - Flight scheduled to leave in 30 minutes, but there doesn't seem to be a plane at the gate. We're told the delay should last until 2130
2000 - Make that 2230
2100 - Make that 0130
2200 - Make that 0230
2300 - Called every Central Time Zone friend I know
2400 - Called the one Pacific Time Zone friend I know
0100 - Wished I was capable of sleeping in airports
0200 - Ibid
0230 - A plane arrives from Albany, carrying two passengers
0430 - CDT now, happy to be off the plane and away from the jerk-offs in the window and isle seats.
0445 - Get baggage claim phone numbers from one of the three employees left in the airport, so I can call about my missing luggage.
0514 - Shuttle drops me off near my car.
0600 - Arrive in my bedroom.
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