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The Big Day
9:31 - Made it to Gatwick with little effort. Now I’m in the Biggest Queue In The World. It’s snaked out the North terminal door and out by the emergency exit...which is glass roofed and a tad greenhouseish. Was hoping check in would be quick as I am without breakfast. You’d think that they’d at least have wandering hot dog salesmen to feed the Queue. It’s unlike BA to miss an opportunity to make a quick buck...
I turn the corner, an ocean of people before me. This is the doctor’s waiting room from Hell. The Queue twists and turns, confined by black and yellow fabric. I suspect this may be why they told us to put all sharp objects in our cases, downstairs...to prevent someone losing it and taking out an attendant or two.
12:18 - Fortunately, shortly after that they opened up a new set of desks, so I got through quite soon after :o) Now I’m sat in a big comfy seat at 20,000 feet, attempting a system restore to try and get IIS working again so I can build some more FreakCity.
I bought a duty free toy, too... A fold out keyboard for my palm. Sadly I forgot to install Palm Desktop on the laptop so I can’t install the drivers for it. Oh, and I broke lilo so can’t boot into linux either. Dammit!
Still, the chilled champagne is making up for it :O)
Mmmfood. Duck and chutney followed by salmon and mash. Panders to the snob in me, as well as my East End heritage They skimped on the crackers tho...2 water biscuits indeed...
17:02 - Bah. Run out of laptop. If this wasn’t an ickle 777 I’d be able to plug it in.
Managed to doze some too - can’t believe I’ve been on a plane 5 and a bit hours
Watching some dodgy Leo DiCapreo/Tom Hanks movie, didn’t catch the start so no idea what it’s called. Map says we’re somewhere near Bermuda but at 36,000 feet I doubt I’d see anything.
Leo has just been arrested! Bless. Now he’s working for Tom Hanks at the FBI! This plot twists and turns at the same rate Leo pouts and scowls
Might read some for a bit
17:03 - I appear to have bought an ickle keyboard type thing for my palm. Bless
It’s 5 hours since the last entry I made, but I’m on tampa time now. Nice hotel, fast net access at $9.95 a day charged to my room (IE to the company