I am in the Westin in Seattle as I type this getting ready for bed. Here is a google map view
The Westin Seattle is 2 round towers, I am in the south tower. The lower right one in the google map.
It was overall a nice trip. Traffic to the airport was great. Check in was a little slow but that just reminded me why I normally check in online and will remind me to do that next time I fly. Security was a dream, I walked right up to the x-ray machines. Oddly, in all the flights I have been on I have never seen them actually load my luggage on the plane, this time I did, again, very odd. It really struck me as odd when I saw it. I actually thought out loud, how odd and mentioned it to the, as yet, unknown person next to me.
Flight was nice. Spent almost the entire flight talking to a retired History/Civics teacher. She was quite funny and we had a nice long discussion on the failings of school and society as a whole as well how outsourcing technology jobs is all sorts of silly for us long term and we also played a rousing game of guess which state we are flying over and what in the world do you think that is? Landing was a bit rough but any landing you can walk away from…
When I got to Seattle I learned why I was allowed to see my luggage being loaded… It wasn’t on the baggage conveyer where everyone else got to pick up their luggage… I don’t know about you, but this seems to happen to me fairly regularly at SeaTac. I would have carried my suitcase on (it is small week long bag) but when I looked and saw they were already selling seats on the wings for the flight I knew I would never get a suitcase and a laptop into the cabin without checking something. The only other time I have had delayed luggage was once in Detroit after coming home from place it took a few days for my luggage to make it. This time it only took 8 hours for them to find and deliver the luggage so it wasn’t all that bad. I wasn’t worried since I knew it was on the plane with me having seen it loaded, off in another city without so much as a toothbrush and a change of undies… not a joyful thing in my book. I assume that is why I was allowed to see it being loaded in the first place. Otherwise I would have been in a bit of a snit over the whole thing. Instead I was able to tie in with my good friend Dean and have a nice Italian dinner – chicken with organic spinach. It seems the place we went has a thing for organic spinach, just about every entree had it.
Other than that we took it easy and chatted about all sorts of topics including why Trans Ams aren’t as cool as Mustangs. ;o) …and how KITT back on the original Knight Rider was kind of a goofy little car but the new KITT on the new Knight Rider is seriously cool.
Picture of a very familiar overcast drizzly Seattle taken with my room with my Sony Ericsson S500i…
Well its only 11PM local time but the Heavenly Bed is calling me and I have had two too many nights this week that I got less than four hours sleep…
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