airports

well, sitting at the airport is not nearly as bad as it used to be now that there are cushier seats with outlets and tables to sit stuff on so instead of zoning into ruzzle draining my cell phone battery i am plugged in with the laptop and babbling on about this which we are sure is a much more effective, worthwhile, and valued use of my time... noble, even... yeah, so anyway, two definite corrections are needed for this trip, the first being a new laptop or something lighter as this laptop is a multi-media fifteen inch machine that is portable, yes, but not light or simple and the battery is dead and it overheats too easily and it simply can't compete in comfort or ease or versatility or even reliability with the pads and ultrabooks out and about all around me... once there was a time i was ahead of the curve, that is, on the outer cutting edge of new tech and i'd be loving the learning curve... now i am year behind... the other reason replacement is emminent is work... i need a laptop that can handle work and the weight of this and the work laptop i have along is ridiculous... the work laptop is heavier than this one cuz, after all, we're a non-profit...

but all complaints aside, sitting here with this laptop tapping away with coffee to my right is an upgraded experience... all that is missing is the vibrating recliners (or just recliners) they have at some airports... the chair is comfortable, but no head rest... of course if there was a head rest i'd be napping, which would probably be the best use of my time considering i got to sleep after 3:30am and had to be awake at 6am cuz jackson had to get to work... it is 8:13 now and i've been here almost an hour... i could have been settled in earlier but i wandered a bit...

the other changes needed is a new laptop bag, though if i get the ultrabook eliminating the weight, size, and one of these laptops i won't need a bigger bag... at the moment these two laptops and power cords and mice and cables and stuff max out this bag and there is no separate pocket for the wallet, phone, and stuff like that... inconvenient for getting to stuff and slows down the security check process (especially when i am pre-tsa approved, which is a sweet deal i've been getting a lot lately as i seem to have gardenered some trust from the tsa computers or something... at least flying out of orlando, that is... the return trip is not always tsa approved... i supposed that is because i might be smuggling something in from knoxville or columbus or atlanta or dallas or portland or where i might be going for a weekend or a week (those have been some of the recent destinations and it leads me to realize i am travelling a lot, mostly for softball, in recent years... yay for that)... i have a dozen different bags at home, i just buried them somewhere in boxes and i didn't feel like digging through them for this trip so we shall see if i simply put up with the cramped inconvenience or if i splurge on another bag with more pockets and wheels...

first world problems, no doubt... hopefully i'll survive... laughing all the way, aye?...

narf :)