far from “being bored”; rather, for me, the art of being perfectly content to do not much of anything

I think “no eating/drinking” pushes the envelope of practicality a bit too far, esp on TCONs or long overwater flights, but I’m a window seat addict and just get totally “in my zone” because there’s a lot of cool stuff to see from the windows

more to the point, though, I rarely if ever care about anything that may be on IFE anyway, and I rarely if ever fire up my work laptop because I’m very cautious about infosec

that said (from my AS flight that doesn’t have IFE, but does feature a shrieking toddler in 1F ), I’ll usually track on my phone with FlightAware or FR24

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thanks to FR24, I knew this was N777UA (the first production jet) en route SFO-IAD; seen from AA2793 CLT-SEA on 21 May
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