Creeva’s World 2.0

I had to pull out my cel­lu­lar card, since this air­port does not have any free wire­less access. On a side note I thought the ad-hoc com­puter net­work that said “Free wire­less here” was cute. Though any­one with half a brain could see it was an ad-hoc network.

Inter­est­ing obser­va­tions on the air­port — I got here at 2 PM — and my flight departs at 7:05 PM. At the front counter I tried to get an ear­lier flight (4:35 flight) but they told me it would cost 25.00 to change flights. Now I’ve changed flights many times in the past, and there had never been a charge. As long as you are going to the same place an ear­lier or later flight costs the air­line noth­ing if they are not booked on the flight — the cost to move the peo­ple is the same either way.

So I checked my bags grum­bled and com­plained about the cost but walked away and accepted my nor­mal flight time. When I got inside I explored my ter­mi­nal (2/3 in JFK, then went to the gate. I found a infor­ma­tion area to see wher ethe ear­lier flight was leav­ing from. I ven­tured to that gate and checked and see if I could switch flights. They were more then happy to switch — AT NO CHARGE. Why 150 feet closer means 25.00 cheaper — I have no clue. But then the bomb dropped — since I checked a bag I could not switch flights. ARRGG. Stu­pid liq­uid restric­tions caused me to check a bag.

So no home ear­lier for me.

Right now for some rea­son I’m sit­ting on the floor and air­port main­te­nance is mea­sur­ing around me, I’m not sure what for, I’m lis­ten­ing to my MP3 player so I’m not lis­ten­ing to them, but I was going to move and they told me to stay there that I was fine where I was. SO they have pulled out mea­sur­ing tape and it kind of feels like they are mea­sur­ing my coffine — albeit a big on since I would guess the size they are mea­sur­ing is about 10x5 — and I’m definetly not that big of a per­son. So I have 4 peo­ple stand­ing less then 3 feet from me = kind of hov­er­ing — kinda of disconcerting.

Another irony — I received a voice­mail that I didn’t check until I was in NYC — it turns out Sat. night a friend left his cell phone in my car — so I get to search for it and give it back to him on my way home tonight. .

Lap­top bat­tery is get­ting low — head­ing out for food and a power plug.