I know this wasn't much of a trip report, but I had to make the observation about the empty plane. And had a made a trip report, I would have made an observation about the guy in the seat in front of me from SEA back to LAX on Thursday evening. I remembered him because he seemed to be about 35 and had two plastic grocery bags full of baseball cards in boxes when he got on. During the flight, he proceeded to unpackage them and put them in a collectors box with the rest of his cards.

Well, this Saturday night, I was at the Cheesecake factory in Beverly Hills to pick up a piece of cheesecake. And who walks up to the cheesecake counter but the guy on the plane. It sure can be a small world sometimes. I am thankful I didn't become and enemy on the flight (we didn't become friends either, but we remembered each other at the Cheesecake Factory).