Paranoia. Hypochondria. Delusions of Grandeur.
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2.26.2004 Hail. And so began my strangest single day of travel in recent memory. Check the flight, off to the airport, park, sprint to the security checkpoint and... cancelled? What was the point of putting my phone number into that little phone on the American Airlines site to alert me about gate changes or delays? Perhaps cancellation does not count as a delay? On the phone to the travel agent. He can get me on another flight in 45 minutes -- on a different airline and arriving at a different airport. Close enough, though. Book it, and zip over to United. Through security no problem, and to the gate. Delayed, delayed. Never mind that I'm booked into a middle seat. We're boarding and some lady asks me to watch her bag. "I'll be back in just a second." Zip, she's gone. Eventually they call everyone to board... and still she's not returned. They even call me by name to get on. Finally I abandon her bag and tell the gate agent the story. He doesn't seem to care too much and ushers me onto the plane. Finally aboard, finally we take off, and still the rain is pouring buckets. For half an hour the plane is bouncing around so much the flight attendents can't even get out of the jump seats. When we close in on LAX, they sprint through with a jug of water to splash on us. The visit in LA is uneventful, except eating a Subway sandwich is causing me to burp throughout every meeting, where I have to talk frequently. Argh. A towncar picks me up to get me all the way across LA and back to the airport. Still raining, but no traffic except for a bumper that has somehow fallen off a car in the middle of the 405. We're to the airport by 8:45, and I figure I might be able to hop on a flight back earlier than my 10:30 flight. Sure enough, there are plenty of seats on the flight that was supposed to board at 6:30. I walk right on the plane. Aboard, the seat won't stay vertical. Just lean into it and it reclines. I feel bad for the guy behind me but there's nothing I can do. Only 15 minutes or so in the holding pattern around SFO. The weather has broken, thank god. We finally land at 11:15. I'm home earlier than I was supposed to be on one of the worst travel days possible. Driving home, a CHP patrol car zooms by me on the freeway. He shouts something over the PA that I don't understand at all, but his lights aren't on, and he doesn't linger to repeat himself. I actually say "Huh?" out loud. Lady, I hope you got your bag. posted by Christopher Null | 7:04 PM 2.24.2004 It's called "Don't Miss A Sec" MSNBC - A new way to view London: from a toilet posted by Christopher Null | 6:27 PM Spotted on the curb on Feb. 24: abandoned Christmas tree posted by Christopher Null | 8:43 AM 2.23.2004 Quest for the crown! Play me posted by Christopher Null | 6:57 PM 2.22.2004 In the end the NRL Judiciary had little trouble differentiating between a "wedgie", a "finger up the arse" and the area between the "arse and the nuts" before finding Hopoate guilty. Sportal.com.au - Rugby League posted by Christopher Null | 8:34 PM Should you find yourself in the greater Bristol area. Richard Box installation posted by Christopher Null | 1:14 PM 
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2.20.2004 "'I do not know if the statement was made by Martha or if it was thought in my mind." Go lawyers! Yahoo! News - Martha Stewart Pal Backtracks posted by Christopher Null | 11:44 AM 73% Dixie Yankee or Dixie quiz posted by Christopher Null | 10:29 AM 2.19.2004 Oy! This Week's Baritone Hero posted by Christopher Null | 1:27 PM 2.18.2004 For all you iTuners... excellent stunt. 
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What is wrong with its neck? TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Robotic Cat posted by Christopher Null | 9:13 AM 2.17.2004 Pans of Pain!!! PETA Media Center posted by Christopher Null | 8:04 PM 2.16.2004 Star Castle rawks. Classic '80s Games : Play Now! posted by Christopher Null | 7:04 PM Easy at-home business... New York Post Online Edition posted by Christopher Null | 4:09 PM 2.15.2004 The wife would rather these sites not exist, I'm sure. Cough, cough... Imaginary maladies online / Internet spreads 'cyberchondria' posted by Christopher Null | 9:49 PM I got it! Mountain Cube Orange ball Ladder Egg Pipe Whirly Gear Cyclone Plate Ring TV posted by Christopher Null | 12:01 PM I'm obsessed with this game. If anyone knows the solution to get all max points, please email me! GROW posted by Christopher Null | 10:56 AM 2.14.2004 How'd I spend Valentine's Day? Tiling! I came home from work yesterday to discover the "simple" job of replacing a faucet on our bathtub had left us a hole in the wall and a $675 bill for the work. Sure, the new faucet is there, but... So anyway, after the trip to the tile store and Home Depot, it was down to business. Why are the tiles today just a tiny bit larger than those from the 1950s? And it goes without saying the colors are wildly different. In the end, it looks ok, and I do like the new hardware a lot, but boy am I tired... Bottom line: If you're looking for a plumber NOT to use in San Francisco, give me a shout. posted by Christopher Null | 8:22 PM 2.12.2004 I went to one of the biggest party schools in the world and we didn't have an undergrad porn magazine. The Harvard Crimson Online :: News posted by Christopher Null | 11:46 AM 2.11.2004 Wrong wrong wrong. Li'l G n'R posted by Christopher Null | 3:20 PM 2.10.2004 Yeah, you do feel great! Nutrigrain (feel great) posted by Christopher Null | 12:10 PM Madam! How your enormous foreskin shades me from the sun! The Surrealist Compliment Generator posted by Christopher Null | 11:21 AM 2.09.2004 Every now and then, we all need a little help. All about Potatoes at Potato Help.com posted by Christopher Null | 10:15 PM 2.08.2004 This one speaks for itself. �Careful! Poop on there!� posted by Christopher Null | 9:07 PM 2.07.2004 Tougher than you may think. BBCi - Science - Human Body - Spot The Fake Smile posted by Christopher Null | 9:13 AM 2.06.2004 Here's how lame Barnes & Noble is. I had a book reading and signing at the Oakland B&N last February (a whole year ago), and after the reading, rather than send the unsold books back to me (who shipped them directly there), they sent them to a distributor from which they didn't even order them. Now, I get a call from a library that bought some of those books from the distributor... well, one of them is autographed "To Jerry". This is the guy who I GAVE a copy of the book and was running the signing. He sold his book back to the distributor, the book I gave him for free! Incredible. What makes this worse is that Barnes & Noble never even paid me for the books they did sell that night. Authors and small publishers, be warned. Personally, I'll never shop at a B&N again. posted by Christopher Null | 1:45 PM 2.05.2004 Too much travel and too many 5am wakeup calls have left me too tired to form coherent original thoughts, so here's a hysterical (and oh so accurate) damnation of the blog community. (Note that I'd never consider myself part of any "community" at all, and I agree that most blogs are indeed trash.) Why your Movable Type blog must die || kuro5hin.org posted by Christopher Null | 10:21 PM 2.01.2004 Sadly, I can't really remember all the states I've visited. Have I been to Utah? Surely I've been to St. Louis, right? Rhode Island... did we go through there during that tour of the east coast? Ah, skip it... create your own visited states map posted by Christopher Null | 10:20 PM I know a bunch of film-obsessed freaks read this weblog. So now's your chance to make something out of that lunacy. Let me know if you get on the show. IFCTV.com > Ultimate Film Fanatic posted by Christopher Null | 11:21 AM |
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