Guess how much money I just spent on a single glass of red wine at a cheap deli at Chicago O'Hare.

No, really, guess.

Ok, now guess how many minutes I spent on the shoulder barely out of highway traffic when I accidentally went through a toll booth without paying the correct amount and had to pay through my cell phone before the rental company figured out what I had done, all for a toll to a place I didn't want to go anyway.

Chicago O'hare sux. Midway is frightening; O'hare is humiliating.

How much?! Tell!

Sorry for all the hell.

Stunning video: http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/

"The film is a vision of our humanity's future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. All the locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available"

$14.45.

Still here.

Is there anyone in Illinois you want me to fight? mI'm on the mood.

Domestic air travel is unpleasant.

"Although admittedly speculative..."

CNN, on all night in this Godforsaken terminal, has been shoveling inflammatory bullshit about Ferguson all night long.

It's like grown men who give their daydreams, religious belief and policy/taxation enthusiasm to science fiction fantasies which will almost certainly never have anything to do with human aspiration.

Our country is populated by automatons whose understanding of what could or will be made of their lives has been programmed by dimwitted Hollywood screenwriters, now long dead, who were never doing more than reciting clichés for illiterate producers as both rushed through their workdays to get drunk and chase tail in the 1960s.

Okay! Finally ready for pushback!

With withered Wolfgang Puck looking down on us from a poster, it wouldn't have been good.

Why yes, actually... I *have* been stuck on the tarmac at LAX for 20 minutes because they changed the runway departure direction due to wind, so all the terminals are still occupied.

Thanks for asking!

CNN, on all night in this Godforsaken terminal, has been shoveling inflammatory bullshit about Ferguson all night long.

It's like grown men who give their daydreams, religious belief and policy/taxation enthusiasm to science fiction fantasies which will almost certainly never have anything to do with human aspiration.

Our country is populated by automatons whose understanding of what could or will be made of their lives has been programmed by dimwitted Hollywood screenwriters, now long dead, who were never doing more than reciting clichés for illiterate producers as both rushed through their workdays to get drunk and chase tail in the 1960s.

Okay! Finally ready for pushback!

GD android.

Select an airline seat mate for a journey across two thirds of the North American continent (Great Lakes, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin & Range, Coastal Ranges, SoCal Megopolis):

☐ Fat & sweaty older guy.

☐ Aggressive footsy-boundary punk.

Well, this morning, I didn't have to choose!

☑ Fat & sweaty older guy.

☑ Aggressive footsy-boundary punk.

Well, this morning, I didn't have to choose! ☺

Total time spent motionless in airliner on exterior (dangerous) taxiing lanes this morning as rain approached Los Angeles: 25 minutes.

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I'm still pissed. Even without the TSA, fl

No. I can't say it.

Yes, I can: Even without the TSA, flying in the United States has been made miserable by labor-stunted, fee-voracious airlines and incompetent civic planners.