I only have so much tolerance regarding bitching about flights. Even from myself. It is never a far stretch to think of set of circumstances that are significantly worse than a flight delay or seat that won’t recline one inch or late luggage.
Nonetheless, I am on a good streak of bad flight luck. In the past week I have had at least five flight delays, with one that turned into an outright cancellation. This week it was one of those affairs where you get on the plane, and then are told to get off the plane to go to the other end of the airport for a delayed flight. Last night I got the message my flight out of DCA was delayed by two hours, and then got word it was cancelled. As I was in the DC area, I was able to get rerouted out of IAD (Dulles), but that too was delayed. Then we sat in the plane as for an additional half an hour as we waited for passengers making a connection. And then when we got in we waited another 15 minutes for someone to come out and connect the jet bridge.
All this sort of thing goes with the travel for business territory. It’s not a big deal but getting in at 2AM was a bit on my mind as I departed for the morning XC practice that was a trail run out of NCAR.
It was good to be home.
I could grumble about my Garmin, but that falls into the same category of “really, if that is your gripe, you are doing pretty well.”
4 and change miles on the Mesa trail.
The good man Lucho and I put out a podcast on the EP network. It is not quite ATC, but more a chat between TL and myself. About half way through it I realized we were talking more like we would in a regular phone call to each other rather than us doing a show. In any case, I’d welcome feedback … topic suggestions, name of the show, questions, and input on my performance. I am a bit annoyed with my interrupting of Lucho that I seem to do and I will work on that (I think it is a bit of a cadence thing with VOIP calls, but given that I do that all day I should know better).
Afternoon – 5.8 miles, with some fartlek to beat the rain
