{"id":685,"date":"2007-06-04T22:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/away.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/away.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Away &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Tampa until late tomorrow night on business.  Learning all about how to better use Pro|E, the CAD software I use at work.  I&#8217;m hopefully going to come back with some real good stuff for the company to use.  That way they&#8217;ll send me again next year.   \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSome travel observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why does a $130 a night hotel need to charge $10 a night for internet access?  OK, I know <em>need<\/em> isn&#8217;t the right term, but still.  Many a $60 hotel serves up wireless for free, they charge double for the room and don&#8217;t include it?<\/li>\n<li>Why can&#8217;t I take a regular sized deodorant on a plane?  The helpful security folks confiscated my nearly new Right Guard gel at the security point.  Maybe their plan is to make all the terrorists smell bad so they&#8217;ll be easier to spot.  At least the $130 hotel gave me a free sample size of non-gel Speed Stick for free.  I&#8217;d hate to be tagged as a terrorist on the return flight.<\/li>\n<li>I got Burger King at the Tampa airport for lunch on Sunday.  I didn&#8217;t even get to see the folks making my food.  The burgers were slid down a rack to a slot in the wall along which you slid you tray, picking up your burger as you go by.  Just in case mass produced paper wrapped burgers weren&#8217;t impersonal enough, now they are spit out like $20 bills from the ATM.<\/li>\n<li>Going home tomorrow, I get to layover in Atlanta.  For over 2 hours.  The direct flight down was shorter than my layover.  What was a 2:15 flight down becomes a 5 1\/2 hour trip home.  Argh.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been to an airport that wasn&#8217;t under construction.  Both Tampa and Port Columbus were.  We&#8217;ll see about Atlanta tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>There was a mix up on my return flight, so I&#8217;m coming back a day before the conference ends.  We looked at changing my flight &#8211; an <em>extra<\/em> $350.  On a flight that was only $316 to begin with.  Huh?<\/li>\n<li>No, I didn&#8217;t fly Skybus, they don&#8217;t go to Tampa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hate flying.  I tossed and turned Sunday morning as I heard thunderstorms roll into Columbus just before my flight.  It cleared up before departure, thankfully.  I haven&#8217;t had to use the little bags in the seat pocket in front of me yet, but I&#8217;ve felt like I was going to need one before.  No matter how many times my mind tells my stomach that it&#8217;s normal for planes to shake and wiggle like that, it&#8217;s not buying it.<br \/>\nWish me luck tomorrow.  Maybe I&#8217;ll find some free wi-fi in Atlanta and post something while I wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Tampa until late tomorrow night on business. Learning all about how to better use Pro|E, the CAD software I use at work. 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