Jul
26

Excellently incorrect.

Wrong on all counts. I’m about halfway back. I have the aisle seat on the side of the plane with only 2 seats. This flight is shorter than the first one. Not too bad.

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Jul
26

Tundra in California.

Daylight. It’s always sunny above the clouds. Flying out of San Jose and just broke the fog layer. It looks like a snowy tundra, a frozen wasteland. Backwards, though. Everything is white except the bits of the mountains, which are all green and sandy; normally mountain tops are the first place snow collects and the last place it melts from. Gorgeous and amusing.

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Jul
17

Izzy on a jet plane? Yes.

They just announced the names of the pilots. The first mate’s name is Izzy Izro. Awesome.

Jul
17

Irony at it's best.

There’s a girl rushing through the airport wearing a shirt that says, “I <3 Life!” And she’s sobbing hysterically.

Jul
17

Ring, ring, hello?

There was a phone number, presumably to that line, taped to the back of the phone at the end of the jetway. I resisted the urge to write it down and call at some random time.

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Jul
09

I don't think there's a cream for that.

Rather impressive new freeway going in near the airport. Still sand and rebar.

Flying into Dallas / Fort Worth. The landscape is extremely flat. Dispersed intermittently, but consistently, are cities, circular in shape, that build up from the outside into a center of skyscrapers. They look like bumps. City bumps.

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