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Flying Over
- We woke up at 4 am to catch our flight.
- According to Skymall, Hammacher Schlemmer sells a keychain doohickey that records 30-second samples of songs that you hear on the radio, but can't identify. You record the piece of song, then plug the doohickey into your internet-enabled computer, and it goes to a website that identifies the song.
- I wonder if it identifies marching band music.
- This is like the all-baby flight.
- Babies follow me everywhere, because I loathe them.
- Right now, we're flying over Portland, Maine.
- Jeri and I have a row all to ourselves. Very cushy.We're using the middle seat as a trash receptacle. Wonder how fast we will mess up our hotel rooms.
- Oo! We just flew over Bangor, Maine!
- I've got my laptop's battery time up to 4 hours. Woop!
- I wonder if England still sells Rolo Eggs.
- We sat in a bar for two hours and watched football during the layover in Houston. We forgot about Daylight Savings Time and nearly missed the plane to London because we thought we had an extra hour.
- Did I mention that the Houston airport is a HELLHOLE?
- Right now, this Indian woman is standing by the toilet and shouting. It's rather irritating.
- Japanese Candy Report: Coffee Beat is tasty, but Pudding Baby has left me non-plussed, to say the least.
- I am trying to fall asleep listening to the in-flight new age music channel, but there is a Big Bellowing Idiot shouting and you can hear him over everything.
- He has like 24 mini-bottles on his tray table.
- Continental has 9 video games and 9 movie channels and 14 audio channels. You can choose what you want to do. This kicks much ass. Pentominoes isn't as fun as Tetris, though.
- Vegetarian airplane breakfast: Raisin Bran, milk, banana, BIG bagel with jam.
- Non-vegetarian breakfast: Raisin Bran, milk, banana.
- Vegetarians get fed more, so nyah.
- Vegetarian airplane dinner: Bean burrito, uncooked yellow rice, gray vegetables, cheese square, crackers, dinner roll, angel food cake, white lettuce with fat-free orange-colored oily substance.
- And wine that I drank straight from the little bottle.
- Today was Customer Appreciation Day. As we got off the plane, a bunch of Continental employees cheered for us and held signs thanking us for flying. I am not making this up.