That's the number of passengers on this plane, which looks like it can
comfortably hold 10 times as many. Time to sprawl.

Gotta turn this confounded contraption off...
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This trip will marks a lot of firsts for me. One of those firsts being the
awesomely underwhelming fact that I have never been to Gate 24B. It might be
just me but the demographics of the patrons at this gate have seemingly
become more...ahem... ethnic. I'll just be dutifull and contribute to
that... One hour before departure.

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I'm comfortably situated in designated seat 2D and am actually looking
forward to the pending flight. Truthfully, I'm just gadzooked about the
ginger ale and cookies. Should serve well as a post Thai dinner closer. Next
stop Washington D.C.

I still wonder whether the cross country flight to Los Angeles will serve
dinner...

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I don't know if you know this but Google has their own Instant Messenger program out now. Cleverly named Google Talk. Worth a gander for me I suppose since I use the Google search, oh roughly... 3,978,566 times a day.

Google Talk

It has come up in several of my recent conversations with people that California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Well, now isn't that just a kick in the pants...

Besides that useless (staggering) piece of information it should be known that I'm getting my patookas onto an Independence Air flight this Saturday at 7:10pm (yes, odd time - but the fare was on sale) and will be par avion'in it out there to explore the frustratingly good weather and whether or not the city that made acronyms cool is... well cool. There might be a Vegas weekend trip squeezed in there too... we'll see.

Did I mention I'm looking forward to getting away from Knoxville's infamous "Ninety/90"? Ergo, 90 days of 90 degree with 90% humidity and 90% chance of thundershowers. Well if I haven't, I am now and I'm screaming it from the top of Deane Hill at the top of my allergy-plauged Korean lungs. Albeit, on my computer in the comfort of air conditioning and some Badly Drawn Boy crooning in the b-ground.

Some of you may know of my unwarrented desire to move to California. Some of you may not. Heck, the last time I saw some of you who might be reading this I had my eyes set on a one-way ticket to the Big Apple. Alas, that is no more as I have realized over the past year that the Big Apple is just that. A Big Apple and I don't like apples. Wait... that was a terrible analogy. What I'm trying to say is that I'd prefer to just see a Big Apple once in a while... nevermind - scratch all that.

New York City is a great place to visit. It probably is one of/the greatest city on this planet but frankly it isn't for me. I don't want to turn into the person I know I'd become if I lived up there. A pissed off, clubbin-crazed, sarcastic, pale, skinny, metrosexual (haha), flat-residing, single-and-lovin'-it, one-of-a-few-hundred-thousand-koreans, weird person. Rather, I'm opting to focus my efforts on moving to a place where I can become a superficial, over-relaxed, clubbin-crazed, sincere, well-tanned, overweight, metrosexual (haha), hacienda-residing, single-and-not-lovin'-it, one-of-a-million-koreans, weird person.

I know there's a better reason in there somewhere... For now, I'm going to just treat my upcoming trip as a reason to mark the West Coast on the ol' map of places I've visited.

I'm off to bed...


p.s. I'll use this as a chance to apologize for those of you who called this evening. I wasn't up for convo.

I inadvertently swallowed a plum seed yesterday. It hurt something awful. It still does.