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What day is it?
Posted by Brian
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11:27 PM
Funny how crossing the equator and the international date line at the same time can mess with your head. I left San Francisco at 11:00pm on Saturday, and arrived here in Sydney at 6:20am Monday... effectively skipped over Sunday. Not to worry... I'll get it back in a few weeks when I repeat a day.
And now it's time for my American Airlines rant. I flew three times with them over the past few days, from Puerto Plata to Miami, Miami to NYC, and NYC to San Francisco. On each flight, I was served one plastic cup of Diet Coke and peanuts. On the cross country flight, we didn't even get those! What gives? I know the airlines are cutting costs, but do they think they'll gain a raving fan by NOT giving us a ten cent bag of nuts? And then they lost my suitcase somewhere in the transfer to Qantas at San Francisco. Not a happy camper! Qantas, on the other hand, is wonderful. The tickets are not inexpensive, but you get excellent food, friendly service, hot face towels and even socks in case your feet get cold. And you can watch your choice of two dozen movies on demand.
After filing my lost bad report (hope to have it tomorrow sometime), I picked up my rental and got a free upgrade to a compact from a sub-compact. A new Nissan Tiida... ought to do the trick for the two-thousand plus miles I'll be driving over the next few weeks. If you can watch the Sydney news online, I'll be the one the news copters are following speeding down the highway on the wrong side of the road, signaling with my wipers.
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And now it's time for my American Airlines rant. I flew three times with them over the past few days, from Puerto Plata to Miami, Miami to NYC, and NYC to San Francisco. On each flight, I was served one plastic cup of Diet Coke and peanuts. On the cross country flight, we didn't even get those! What gives? I know the airlines are cutting costs, but do they think they'll gain a raving fan by NOT giving us a ten cent bag of nuts? And then they lost my suitcase somewhere in the transfer to Qantas at San Francisco. Not a happy camper! Qantas, on the other hand, is wonderful. The tickets are not inexpensive, but you get excellent food, friendly service, hot face towels and even socks in case your feet get cold. And you can watch your choice of two dozen movies on demand.
After filing my lost bad report (hope to have it tomorrow sometime), I picked up my rental and got a free upgrade to a compact from a sub-compact. A new Nissan Tiida... ought to do the trick for the two-thousand plus miles I'll be driving over the next few weeks. If you can watch the Sydney news online, I'll be the one the news copters are following speeding down the highway on the wrong side of the road, signaling with my wipers.
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