Friday, May 11, 2007

tomorrow: Dbacks fanclub!

The next day we drove to London, Canada. Note that I have no pictures from this place. I was pleased that Billy Joel would be playing the same venue as us a mere 5 days after our departure. I was also pleased that our horn section would be performing in a place where the audience couldn’t see us so we could goof around and wear baseball hats during the show.
The drive to Providence was ultimately long and confusing. We stopped at Niagara Falls Canada at about 9am. It was really cool to see the falls again on this trip, having now mostly thawed.

Getting to beautiful Providence after 12.5 hours of traveling, making 33 hours in 4 days, we ran for the hills and went to my parents house in MA.

The weekend was sold out for the shows, and the crowds giddy for the most part.

I saw something on a flight recently that I’ve never seen before: the captain came out of the flight deck to use the bathroom and the Rear Attendant took his place inside the cockpit. I assume she didn’t sit down in his chair (ph balanced for a man…). When he returned to the flightdeck, she remained in their, reducing the plausibility of sexy storylines. They block the entrance to the forward galley with a food cart when the cockpit door is open and the other attendant stands staring at us like an offensive line. The food cart is a nice touch and, sadly, would likely knock the flight attendant clear into the bulkhead should someone give it a good shove. If I were planning an emergency response I would say leave the heavy unwieldy things that could be used against you stowed. Especially because the cart is wedged up against two half walls, and could only be pushed at the crew, not towards an attacker by the crew. Still, it’s nice to see procedures in action.

There’s a computer store up the road from us in Phoenix, and there is a nice emergency response plan in action there, in the form of two 9mm handguns hanging on the door to the back room. The energetic owner is definitely only taking cash, and definitely grew up in Arizona, and you better know what you want when you walk in that door or he gets very nervous. I plan to rely on him for my hard drive and webcam purchase needs, and, within reason, friendship. There was a customer in there buying a PC who claimed she could wrap us in something for 2 hours and we'd lose 30 inches. Very cool, and she should definitely have a computer for all the amazing business she is going to do with this revolutionary procedure that will change the way I think about weght loss.

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