[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
(COOLLIST) Christmas Travel
[This was mostly written last Friday night, the 20th, but I didn't get
to send this out to the list until late Monday due to a hectic
weekend. I should have one more essay out tonight before I go to
sleep. Thanks for reading, and I wish you the best. -- Ben]
Hello, CLers. I'm back in North Georgia right now, writing this on my
laptop while sitting in front of my family's Christmas tree, the gas
fireplace burning away. It has been a few interesting months, and I
wanted to relate a few things.
First, some of you had heard a rumor that I would be moving back to
Atlanta to work for a small engineering firm. Well, while there was a
kernel of truth to that back in November, I've decided to stay in
Austin for the time being. Motorola is treating me well, and I have
several projects underway that I don't want to disrupt. It would have
been a great experience working with some of my schoolmates and
friends in Atlanta, but I have a life in Austin that I want to
continue to develop.
I got into Dalton Thursday night after an uneventful flight. Austin's
airport was quite crowded; they had to close the concourse to
non-ticketed passengers because of crowding. We were crammed into a
stubby 737 for the 1.5 hour flight to Atlanta. I've been on Delta a
lot lately, and I always seem to take flight 345, their 5
P.M. non-stop flight. This is one of the few flights with a meal or
snack, but at least I get a "special" meal rather than having to take
the Sky Deli bag. This is an innovation by the Deltoids where
passengers grab a bag with a dry sandwich, chips, and a cup of water
while boarding the plane. Its a cost cutting measure to reduce crew
service time; I don't think it is working too well as about half of
the people on board had to get an attendant to bring them the bag they
missed on the way into the plane. I had to get the attendant to bring
my meal: a box with an apple, a bag of baked chips, a pita with icky
tomato and cucumber slices, and two cups of dressing. Great it
wasn't.
After a visit to my high school to catch up with some teacher friends,
I spent today doing a thrift shop/pawn shop tour of Chattanooga and
the surrounding areas. I was looking for video games, specifically
ones for classic systems like the Colecovision and Atari 2600. The
city was dry; after an early find at a Fort Oglethorpe Goodwill store,
I found nothing else of interest besides a few Nintendo games. I did
have an interesting experience at the Dalton Salvation Army store. I
noticed a guy from Kmart outside the store ringing a bell.
I'll be writing again soon... I've done some thought-provoking reading
and I want to share.
--
Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) <URL:http://www.yak.net/combee/>
that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing,
World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin
####
To unsubscribe from (COOLLIST), reply to this and tell me to delete you.
To see the (COOLLIST) archives, go to http://www.yak.net/coollist/.