I much prefer mid-day flights. The food in first is better, I’m better, life is better.
Left for the airport at nine so I could be on a conference call atten. Forty-five minutes of E&A discussions. More things for my to-do list. Nice to have a meeting with a bloodymary in front of you. Bad Mark!
Breakfast was basically a couple of bagels with cream cheese in the Board Room at Alaska. The lunch options on the flight to Minneapolis were a pastrami sandwich on swirled rye bread oran artichoke and spinach pasta dish. I went for the pastrami,but the pasta looked really good. Maybe on the way home that will be an option.
Flightswere running on time — pray for that on my return when it’s far more important. I even had a half an hour in Minneapolis to snag a drink in the Northwest club and ring up Davethe Builder. Sounds like his business has fallen off — he even entertained the possibility of coming west to work on the new house. Not very exciting projects — roof and painting and a roof extension for the porch. That surprised me, but I guess it’s the economy, stupid.
The flight to Tampa was a dinner flight — another pasta dish, this time with a marinara sauce which I passed on in favor of the chicken quesadilla. It being Northwest, there was no working entertainment system but I’d brought my mp3 player andthe noise cancelling headphones so it wasn’t a problem.
Arrived Tampa fifteen minutes early and my bag was the third off — the priority tag (for being in First Class) actually worked this time! Dan was in the cell phone lot so it was a quick pickup and go.
Nothing like a hot tub after a long day of flying. Thanks Dan for cleaning and filling the tub!
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