Flights of Fancy

[da]

You know about Terry Bissoin's short story They're Made of Meat, right? Well- Go. Watch. (work-safe, about 4 minutes long). Thanks infinitehotel!

I took my sweetie's advice and took most of today easy. I mowed the lawn, did a bit of raking, and played fetch with Rover. She does love fetching sticks, but she gets bored after only one or two throws. However, if I have in my hands a big batch of sticks, and I wave them at her, she'll come back and relinquish her old stick to chase one of the new sticks. We kept this up for at least fifteen minutes, which might be a record for her?

Later this evening I felt a bit like I was playing that game too, looking at flights to California. (for nearly the only time that d. isn't already going to be travelling elsewhere.) Expedia consistantly played the "Here's a flight... oops, the price changed. Try again! Here's another one... oops!" (adding $200 to each fare; but of course if you reload the first search page, it hasn't updated there, mysteriously. Wankers.)

So I spent some quality time with some web-searches and Orbitz found me a cheaper fare than I saw anywhere else except for flights that left Buffalo at 6:00 in the morning (what, are they daft? or do people actually leave their houses before 4:30am to fly?), and Orbitz's site also behaved as one would expect them to. They even took my US credit-card with a Canadian mailing address, which is never a sure thing. So, Orbitz >> Expedia for me, at least for the next while.

I had hoped to head over to chez lovecraftienne and persephoneplace for some movie-watching and meeting holographicjoe but... I dunno, I felt worn out. So rather than pushing it I had a quiet dinner here and I've been spending too much time in front of a computer since.

Comments

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

do people actually leave their houses before 4:30am to fly?

i caught a few 6 am flights out of toronto when living in KW. they were mostly when flying to places rather far away, and i needed to arrive in time to handle complicated transportation logistics at the other end. it did suck, though.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I did take a 4am flight once. And yes indeedy, it sucked.

I seem to remember that the worst part was the lines; you couldn't lie down where you were, and all of these people were standing in your way of a nap...

[sqrt-joy.livejournal.com]

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

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[insaint.livejournal.com]

Both. They're daft *and* people leave before 4:30am to fly. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Undoubtedly.

And once I thought about it, I dimly remember one flight at 4am when I was coming home from europe. When /I/ was daft. :)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I've flown on 6 am flights before. I'm vaguely thinking I've even done it in the past year or two, but I can't think of when. I know that my flight from Dubrovnik to CDG was very, very early in the morning.