Another Start
How many blogs have I started and abandoned? Approximately the same number of journals and diaries that have found the invisible part of my bookshelf over the years. This is another, but feels different; it is a new leaf.
Vacation is a time of self-reflection and goal-setting, especially the end-of-year holiday season. I am doing just such self-reflection right now in Batavia, IL, after a harrowing journey from San Francisco, a supposedly six-hour sojourn extended to well over 13.
Travelling alone (not always true with companions), I find that passenger camaraderie has a high positive correlation with the following variables:
- Duration of flight delay relative to total flight time;
- Triviality of causes of the delay (e.g. co-pilot stuck in traffic, one of many in my case);
- Proximity of airport bar to the gate.
For AA 1456, these values were: >100%, multiple delays of high triviality, directly adjacent. As such, I chatted with a number of marvelous people, including a lawyer from Hong Kong, the manager of a logistics business in Manila, a Facebook employee, and someone who claimed to do something involving the selection of fashionable items to sell at retail outlets, but whose wardrobe did not inspire confidence in her job security.
Just finishing “A Christmas Story” as the evening starts winding down. (I find the carolling scene at the Chop Suey Palace mildly offensive – who’s with me?) With every sip of glögg, I wish you all a happy pre-Christmas week. Stay tuned for more from this inter-net posting site, it won’t disappoint.
