Alaska

Well I got to do a little travel this weekend for work. First I hopped one of our planes to Seattle, did a little work and then hopped a commercial flight up to Alaska. After about oh...6 hours I was one of our planes headed back to good ol' NY.

It wasn't as bad as it may sound. Our flights are great, plenty of space, a few comfortable seats, decent food, easy sleeping. Commercial flights on the other hand...pure hell. A couple hours of delays, and I didn't even have the chance to pay for food on the flight. I'm fairly certain they'll soon start charging extra fees to breath on flights, or use the bathroom. I can handle no legroom. But the narrowing of the seats has got to go. I can no longer sit comfortably next to anyone. Ok, I can sit comfortably, but the people next to me can't be very comfortable with my shoulder grinding into their temple, that and my aweful gas.

In the few hours I was there, I did see enough of Alaska to decide I need to explore it further. I arrived at 9:30pm Saturday night and it was still bright as day. The people were very nice all around. The cabby that took me to the hotel was by far the most brilliant cab driver I've ever had the pleasure of stiffing. It felt odd seeing people dressed up to go out, party, etc in what seemed like the middle of the day. I think there are reasons people get slovenly drunk in the dark. On the plus side, I feel the shining light could save many from hookups aided by the dark of night. On the negative side, dim lighting and many beers is my bread and butter.

I'm back!

Well at least I plan on tryyying to be back. I'll try to try.

It's day 13 in NY, and I'm still alive.

It kind of smells here. I didn't see the sky for my first 3 days. Not because of cloud cover, more of a dirty haze. Every morning people said 'oh that'll burn off,' but it did not...and I lived in fear of this skyless place.

I am still 'in training,' which means I do a lot of following, very little 'doing.' I feel a little worthless, but hell it's always been my dream to get paid for being worthless.

My hours have been strange, I've been in as early as 5am, and as late as 4:30am. My sleep schedule is fucked, properly. Finally they had me 'ghosting' the schedule of my 'trainer,' which meant going in anywhere from 2-6pm, and getting out anywhere from 11pm-4am...but then some more classes came up! So this week I'm on a morning schedule for class. They're lucky I'm a podunk Oregon boy with nothing better to do than work and sleep in the hotel.

I'm fairly excited about 'blogging' again. That felt fairly gay to say. I have many more exciting things to enlighten you all with. In due time.

PS: There are a lot of jews here.