Musings at 37,000 feet
Sep. 13th, 2004 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Kiddman: "Ever since I was a litle girl..."
I've been trapped on planes with really terrible in-flight movies. When my brother and I went to Hawaii, we suffered through Big Momma's House because what the hell else were we going to do to kill 7 1/2 hours of domestic-flight hell? My flight to Atlanta is showing The Stepford Wives, which I saw in the theater. It made for a fun date-movie, but it's not worth seeing again. Thankfully now that Microsoft has seen fit to give me a laptop for use with all my travel I can bring my own DVDs and have more control over what I watch to pass the time.
Still, I think I'd rather just sleep. I'm too tall to really get comfortable, but it does pass the time pretty quickly. Since this trip will be about ten hours of flying for about four hours worth of meetings, I have plenty of time to waste.
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jeliza suggested I get back into reading for fun. I stopped doing much extra reading between having to read a lot for graduate school and keeping up with technical topics. I was never a voracious reader, but I enjoyed the usual assortment of fantasy/sci-fi authors. I started Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress waiting in line for the last Harry Potter film and I still haven't managed to finish it. Still have two of the six books of The Lord of the Rings to go as well.
The airline is selling snacks for this flight beyond the tiny bag o' pretzels. Criminally priced naturally since we are all trapped in this tin can. $8 for crackers, cheese, and a few pieces of fruit.
All the whinging aside, the flight is pretty smooth and we will hopefully be well gone by the time storms spinning of off Ivan hit Huntsville. Today is a beautifully clear day with bright sun reflecting off the mineral stain of Salt Lake, Utah below.
Kiddman: "Ever since I was a litle girl..."
I've been trapped on planes with really terrible in-flight movies. When my brother and I went to Hawaii, we suffered through Big Momma's House because what the hell else were we going to do to kill 7 1/2 hours of domestic-flight hell? My flight to Atlanta is showing The Stepford Wives, which I saw in the theater. It made for a fun date-movie, but it's not worth seeing again. Thankfully now that Microsoft has seen fit to give me a laptop for use with all my travel I can bring my own DVDs and have more control over what I watch to pass the time.
Still, I think I'd rather just sleep. I'm too tall to really get comfortable, but it does pass the time pretty quickly. Since this trip will be about ten hours of flying for about four hours worth of meetings, I have plenty of time to waste.
jeliza suggested I get back into reading for fun. I stopped doing much extra reading between having to read a lot for graduate school and keeping up with technical topics. I was never a voracious reader, but I enjoyed the usual assortment of fantasy/sci-fi authors. I started Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress waiting in line for the last Harry Potter film and I still haven't managed to finish it. Still have two of the six books of The Lord of the Rings to go as well.The airline is selling snacks for this flight beyond the tiny bag o' pretzels. Criminally priced naturally since we are all trapped in this tin can. $8 for crackers, cheese, and a few pieces of fruit.
All the whinging aside, the flight is pretty smooth and we will hopefully be well gone by the time storms spinning of off Ivan hit Huntsville. Today is a beautifully clear day with bright sun reflecting off the mineral stain of Salt Lake, Utah below.
