The Goldfish Chronicles

Time for one of those ‘gosh, it’s been ages since I blogged’ blogs. Much has been happening, both good and bad.

The usual winter time flu has come and gone. Birthdays for all three of us. Painful liver/tummy - need to see a doctor again in Jan. A baby is on the way (and now that family know I can say so here); doubt I’ll be doing ApacheCon EU. My son has forgotten that he used to goto sleep nicely at 7pm and our evenings are gone, and lastly - I’ve been doing lots in Commons.

As I said I would mention it 6 weeks ago - flights for ApacheCon US were highly painful. I was an idiot and bought a Sunday 12:30am flight not a Monday 12:30am flight to head to Austin, fortunately the airline put me on the next plane for free (yay Continental). Then I had a long delay in Austin trying to fly to Louisville via Chicago, finally getting out before the airport closed but arriving too late for my connection and had to sleep in Chicago airport. Expedia had screwed me by organizing a flight with one leg on American and the second leg on United. They were good on the phone though and did what they could. Fortunately I’d had the second sight and had decided (for the first time ever) that I would pay the upgrade to first class for the 3 hour flight. Got fed, slept; all good stuff for a night at an airport.

Chicago-side, United screwed me by charging me $100+ for a rearranged flight the next day (as it wasn’t their fault I had missed the flight to Louisville), which I agreed to pay as I didn’t see many options at the time. Fortunately I saw an American agent and she got me an earlier flight for free. Yay! American, Boo! United. American and O’Hare had a set of cots I could sleep in with a guard watching us all - that was good, til they turfed us out at 4->5am. Wandered around Chicago airport, walked end to end a few times to arrange a stand-by for the first flight of the day and then got on it. Made it to Louisville in the end and enjoyed a few days with old friends. Lastly headed home to Seattle - which went well by comparison.

So all in all; I still like American, I don’t like United, and I like Continental more than I used to.

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