To continue last entry's narrative, my second flight was just an hour, and I spent the entire time talking with an interesting lady, a grandmother, who (I think) was born in France, had a strong accent, and had lived in Germany for a time as well. We talked about philosophy of life, how society is, her kids, and I showed her my digital pictures. It was fun... Airplane friends are good practice for making longer-term friends, I think :) ... Another airplane thought -- I think that observing someone on an airplane is probably one of the best ways to know who they are and their personality type, much better than those tests. Or maybe it tells different things. Hmm.

Anyhow, I put my CMU ID to use to get back from the airport, taking one city bus to CMU, and then a CMU escort van back to my place. I saw for the first time the roads that are only open to public transportation in Pittsburgh. There's quite a lot of them. I think public transportation is a great idea, and would like to see very strong subsidies and punitive gas taxes to push people to use it. With more people on it, additional investment would be needed to push it to 24 hours, and make it everywhere, but there are quite a lot of benefits.

Ahh, yes, an irritant at the airport -- the stupid voice announcements that the moving floors are coming to an end.. People are pampered too much, and it's irritating to hear it announcing over and over that the end of the floor is nearby. People learn how to walk at an early age. You'd figure they have the basic skill to scan the ground in front of them for changes that they need to think about. If they don't have that skill yet, let them fail and fall. If they can't handle moving floors, they can use the normal floors on the side anyhow.

Well, I'm really tired. But.. I do have my galleries on their way to being up. When it's done uploading, Go here. I'll be moving my entire site over tomorrow, and re-merging my email, using forwarding to catch the people whose sites haven't yet picked up on the DNS change yet for my email.

I've found that listening to the latest Firewater CD has made me actually appreciate a lot of the songs from their other CDs that I was only neutral on before. Strange.

Holly was dead again when I got back, but I ran out today and got a replacement power supply with more pep in it (500W instead of 300W), and it lives again. I hope it stays that way. If not, I got a 1-year warranty on it for an extra $10, so I can keep on replacing it until it stops dying.

I was also upset today to find my friend is still in the hospital. I hope I can visit her soon.

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