Live From Las Vegas

[aggienaut]

   So I'm in Vegas now. It took nine hours by plane to get here, somehow.

   I was supposed to catch an airplane out of Sacremento at 7:36am. Unfortunately I arrived there around 7:00 which was too late to catch that plane. They put me on a 10:02 flight to San Fransisco instead. I arrived there in time to catch the 11:15 flight I was originally supposed to catch from there, but for some reason when they rescheduled me from Sac they bounced me out of it. Who else do I find waiting for the plane but my friend Sally Lorenz. She was on standby there (presumably to take MY vacated seat!), because she had missed HER scheduled flight earlier that morning as well (she blames too much drinking the night before). We ended up on the same 12:45 flight to Vegas.
   Arriving there around 2:30, I think it took us like an hour to figure out where to go from there and and like an hour to actually get tehre since we were the last stop the shuttle bus made (turns out the driver didn't know where the Embassy Suites were), so we finally got to the hotel at 4:30.


   Sally brought up a good question about airline security: what do they do with all the confiscated materials?! They confiscated two lighters from her when she boarded her plane. They must have a massive horde of lighters and other "contriband."


   The State Department wants me to fax them a confirmation form this weekend for the diplomatic security job interview. The only other time I've ever had to fax something was to the State Department when I applied for a foreign service internship a few years ago. I think the State Department are the only people who fax things anymore. I bet thats why the rest of the world doesn't like us anymore. Like, Jacques Chirac was probably saying to his minister of state "you know, I was thinking about supporting that US invastion of Iraq thing," when a french state department intern came running in saying "Condoleeze's on the phone, she wants us to fax them some TPS reports." Chirac: "That does it, they can take their Operation Iraq Americanism and suck it!"


   When I ran into the PAXMUN tech staff yesterday, they informed me that my livejournal was the first blog to link to the PAXMUN webpage. I always forget that sites can tell who's linking to them. Thats kinda weird and creepy. Anyway, the PAXMUN technical team also informed me that "Kristy is very cute."
   Also, I was worried that they might have a problem with my mohawk since AMWEST takes itself very seriously. Apparently they've gotten used to it though; the most frequent comment I've gotten from high level staff here is "I miss the green." and "Why isn't it green."
   And I won eight dollars this morning when we all placed wagers on how many delegates would attend the optional session where we went over rules. My bet of "7" beat out competing bets 2, 5, 12 and 15.

Picture of the Day

Real men sleep in pink beds with kittens.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Removal II - The Sequal - And highlights of the first removal hearing (vis-a-vis the transcripts I wasn't supposed to be given), such as "[Fricke] seems to be not the best communicator..."
   Year Ago Yesterday: Crossing the Rubicon - I lead the call to end the rampant corruption of the previous Elections Committee, with a guest opinion in the Aggie. It would be followed by an Aggie article on the subject the following day and eventually the Elections Committee would be completely shamed and replaced by Orwellians.
      Also Iacta Alea Est - The War on Wrong Begins! - Simulteniously the critically acclaimed War on Wrong begins with opposition to the chronic malfeasance of the Myung administration of MUN at UCD.
   Year Ago Today: Legio XIII is on the March - I leave for AMWEST 2004. Also quotes from a conversation with famous Slovak radio host Branislav "Bruno" Ciberij of Funradio.


Recommended Reading: Eric Installs FREIGHT TRAIN HORNS on His Truck - (OMGWTF) - and makes an lj entry about it.

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Love the pink bed photo. Actually, I really love the caption. I was actually LOLing.
BTW, we know when Eric's entering the Mission Viejo zip code when we hear far off freight trains.

Re: We were talking at lunch about phrases such as BTW and LOL. I claimed that I had never used LOL, but I guess my perfect rcord is now shot, since I had to accurately report on my reaction to the pink photo w/ kitten.

Here's a new one for you: MDR It's French for death by laughing.

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

I feel like a jerk because I kept noticing spelling errors in this entry. Actually, that didn't make me feel like a jerk, just pointing out the fact did.

And I think they sell that stuff. I recall Rob Cockerham buying a bunch of junk at a Goodwill store that was donated by the airport.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

nibot used to take great relish in pointing out spelling errors here. We endeavor of course to keep our entries relatively free of errors and fix those that we happen to notice, but the staff here at emosnail does not aspire to deliver a wholly spelling-error-free publication. Things are often written in a hurry and not proofread for errors, as our main priority is simply to get it out. Frequently homonyms manage to replace eachother in the text, which emosnail rather regrets because that looks rather bad, but the bottem line is that our first line of defense against claims of spelling and typographical errors is that we weren't making a serious effort to avoid them.

Anyway, I don't you know if you had consciously looked for the spoils from the very airport I came through, but you found it. Looks like I need to find the nearest goodwill store to Sacremento Airport.

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

I think that my comment is totally invalidated by the fact that I fucked up my HTML tag. :P

Also, no, just coincidence. Seems like all the awesome stuff either happens on the east coast, or in California.