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Greetings from the train somewhere between NRT and Tokyo. Flight was uneventful. I think the food quality went down a bit, and the V part of my AVOD crapped out at some point while I was asleep so no movie the second half of the flight. But a solid crew and on time arrival. Time to find my hotel, sushi and sleep, in that order.

Good morning, Box !!! :D

I figured any discussion would insult everyone considering the word "touron" would be used. Frequently.

Don't know the last time you've been back but they more or less idiot-proofed them by putting big barriers between the lanes to (in theory) prevent people from screwing up, too badly. :rolleyes:

Morning Box. Every time I get out of bed at 355am to get on a conference call, a turtle dies.

Good evening. It is well after dinner time here and much closer to bed time.

I got to experience my first true sushi bar for dinner tonight. Everyone in the place just stood at the counter, calling out orders. Of course my "calling out orders" mostly involved pointing at things on a list or in the cabinet that looked good rather than actually saying anything. The guy next to me probably ate 25 pieces in 10 minutes and then took off. I had a much more sane 12 pieces (don't want to over-do it on the first night) over about 25 minutes and now am well sated and ready to finally sleep in a bed after four straight nights in an airplane seat.

The redish one. I was debating between the very light yellow shirt with the dark blue tie and the white shirt and the redish tie. Then I looked at the collars of the shirts and noticed the yellow one was button down so I going with the white/red combo. I can always get a photo of it later and post.

Thanks. I woke up a little early from a dream that I over, over, over slept until 11:08 AM and missed it and went into a panic. That's a good sign in my book.

That one is just confusing.

Last time I've seen any of that stuff was on display at the Smithsonian (I'm not joking). My first computer was an 8088/86 or something like that with 512K Ram and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. But I had a color monitor instead of the default fancy amber monitor. It's sort of in this photo along with a much younger and skinnier me along with my NLQ Panasonic (1091i?) dot matrix printer.

Good morning. Good Afternoon. Good evening. The box is rather spread out across the world today. ^

Good :rolleyes: to you too.

And good luck on the interview.

whiskey trango foxtrot
 

I hopped on co.com this a.m. to see what upgrade chances were looking like for my flights tomorrow and I open the seat map of my first flight and see F. Winner winner chicken dinner. I went to select a seat, but it wouldn't take.

I do some work and come back to it a bit later and when I pull up my res it shows me back in coach, without a seat assignment, and my exit row seat has vanished. I try and select another seat and it won't "take."

What the deuce is going on here?

I think my res has some :rolleyes: in it from all the changes earlier in the week. I somehow got upgraded on the IAH - SF:rolleyes: flight but didn't show up on the pda list as receiving an EUA.

I could really care less about the little glitch, but I'll be rather toasty if I lost my exit row seat and am stuck back in whY.

GEOS is terrible because although most dot-matrix printers do just fine with standard word processor fonts, the GEOS fonts, especially when printing in color, all have lines through them.

I love my Okimate printer, but not with GEOS.

Just got the EUA email. Apparently I logged in at the wrong time and found a glitch in the matrix.

The world has returned to spinning on its :rolleyes:.

^ We share our personal calendars on Google Calendar and have a central calendar that is for things we are doing together.


I was thinking about the traffic and freeway talk and I remembered when my wife first moved to Houston. Yeah, the radio referring to I-10 as the "Katy Freeway" threw her off, but what really got her was the way they referenced the Beltway and Loop. "There's an accident on the west Loop northbound" or "The north Belt eastbound". Sure, we get it now, but think about hearing that in rapid succession on the radio and there is a major accident there.

I just learned that the office I last worked in is closing shop on Friday. I can regain a person as a reference on Saturday.

I'm one of those people that doesn't get jetlagged. My other half, OTOH, is acutely aware of time zones. Very acutely aware.

I could not imagine this.

Morning, Box. :D Fiancee's birthday combined with a trip tomorrow. Life is good.

:confused:

It's to keep track of things that both of us are involved in. If her friends ask us to dinner, it goes on "our" calendar. If they ask just her, it goes on her calendar. When I go out with the guys, it goes on mine.

So rather than doubling the amount of work to add the event that her friends invited us to, we just put it on one calendar (it's actually each of our own calendars but it's shared).

I should've been clearer, sorry. What I really couldn't picture would be us as a couple sharing a Google Calendar. Maybe it's just because she is back to working and working some odd hours while I'm not working still. I could totally see a need for it given how many nights a week I used to have stuff to do. Currently, not so much. The nightlife tends to die off when you're not one of the important sources of business... :( That's only mildly depressing to think about.

And, on another topic, while my fiancee cracks jokes about FT, she's been known to read over my shoulder and laugh at the happenings in the Box.

I've got short weekends in Europe down to a science. Start with a G&T or two before landing to get everything primed, then switch to fortifying high % beer once on the ground. Sometime around 01:00pm EuroTime, you break through to the "plateau," which is possible to maintain well into the evening or wee hours of the next morning. It's not the most high-functioning mental state, but it gets the job done.