What? I Am In An Airport Again? That’s Unpossible!
Posted on June 25, 2012 Posted by John Scalzi 9 Comments
The good news is that I am going home. For about sixteen hours! I hardly know what to do with myself.
See you all this afternoon.
Whatever
FURIOUSLY REASONABLE
WHATEVER
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Just ask this scientician…
Just close you eyes, and go to sleep. We’ll quietly back out of the internet and turn off the tight, until you com back.
Hurry home – Metafilter is all but crying for your return. You’ll see what I mean when you get there.
Is it really worth heading home for only sixteen hours? (Serious question btw)
ajinbc: Speaking as a frequent business traveler, it’s always worthwhile to get all home time available.
16 hours at home with wife and progeny trumps 160 hours of answering: “May I tweet about your ultra-secret reading contents?”
Sixteen hours at home in those circumstances will seem like a week — and like a minute.
The security lines at MSP … don’t get me started. The terminal was rebuilt with a goal of having as few traffic impediments as possible. Then 9-11 happened and checkpoints became mandatory. I suspect that a good half of the corridors in MSP have been closed, some sheet-rocked over so you don’t even know they were there, but the traffic flow now is a nightmare..
I know you said that Tor has been very generous and I have no idea of the logistical nightmare that rounding up a book tour might entail but it seems to me they have you running back and forth. Couldn’t they have run you up & down one coast then home then around the Mid-West & home then the other coast?
lol. finally you are coming bac