By The Way...

Thursday, May 25, 2006
2:54:00 PM EDT
Hearing Airline announcements
Hey there, folks. I'm here at O'Hare, and I've got a couple of minutes to kill before I catch my connecting flight, so I thought I'd click in and say hello. Hello! Right now I'm looking out the window and watching some poor schmoes climb around the top of another concourse, spraying off the bird poop with high-pressure hoses. That's a job for you.

One of the great scams in airports these days, incidentally, is the idea that airports are now offering free wi-fi. I've got a wi-fi connection here, but it's so weak that it's entirely useless. The reason I can connect that I'm using my cell phone as a modem. I feel like this is a moral victory, incidentally -- thwarting those who would taunt me with promises of free wifi. Ha! I say to the thwarters! You are yourself thwarted! I just like saying thwart. Thwart thwart thwart.

How's your afternoon going?


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• #8 Comment from easuess 
  5/26/06 10:20 AM | Permalink

  LOL at monponsett
  
  http://saveasecretaryfrominsanity.blogspot.com
• #7 Comment from lurkynat 
  5/26/06 2:00 AM | Permalink

  (watching Dan being thwarted while day dreaming of Dawn's new jewelry..) uhhh !:)Havea great time John! (looking for SMurfette)
  natalie
• #6 Comment from princesssaurora 
  5/25/06 5:17 PM | Permalink

  Very cool!
  
  Be well,
  Dawn
  
  http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/
• #5 Comment from monponsett 
  5/25/06 4:20 PM | Permalink

  I like to smoke a lot of grass before I get on an airplane, too.
• #4 Comment from dpoem 
  5/25/06 3:36 PM | Permalink

  Well, since you asked, I am having a splendid afternoon.  Glad to hear you're sticking it to the man with your random acts of thwarting.  
  
  -Dan
  http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/

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