Entries this day: in-lax near-la okie-doke on-narita-express trying-to-finish-the-meteor-course

in lax

12:12 Friday 22 January 2016 PST

About 40 minutes before our flight, and I'm charging my computer a little bit away from our gate because I'm addicted to my computer (and therefore it having power) and don't know if I can get a power fix closer to the gate.

In line at the deli kiosk thing where we grabbed some foodage, We saw the cabin attendant who gave me slippers. We chatted for a bit, including how they'd prefer to go barefoot at times, but there's some kind of rule (probably just to prevent lawsuits) that's in their handbook. Weird. I'd like to get a license to go barefoot. I wonder if it's good internationally. hahah

Email to ferp:

We are in LAX, safely and slowly through immigration, safely and
slowly through customs, safely and slowly through security, and
grabbing a quick bite during our 3 hour layover of which less than
an hour remains.

We are due to arrive in Sandy Eigo at 1:47pm local time in
America, the land of the free and home of the litigation!

12:55

At 12:56 we started walking to the gate which was just 20 meters away.

Oh snap it's the gate to the shuttle to the gate!

So we had to wait for the shuttle which had to wait for two planes, one of which crossed our path.

near la

09:40 Friday 22 January 2016 PST

We're about 25 minutes out. Lin and I both slept well, so I'm pretty sure we'll have no jet laggin' issues.

My sinus is quite itchy sneezy... while my mouth was chewing the grape that came with our breakfast, my nose was like, "time to sneeze!!" and I had to work hard to override it! I was thinking, "you guys want some grapes???"

okie doke

14:48 Friday 22 January 2016 PST

We made it! Fred and Alicia came and picked us up in a Dodge Challenger!

on narita express

13:35 Friday 22 January 2016 JST

Lin and I are chillin on Narita Express #27, 1700 yen each from 品川 to Narita Airport (成田 ah crap I forgot this word)

I've just confirmed my packing and buying list was completed on time!

17:07 JST

Late start leaving, but we've just started boarding, 2 minutes after departure time.

During the delay, I got an extra ticket done for CB. yay!

19:33 JST / 2:33 Los Angeles

I feel sad that I got pissy when one of the ground crew(?) informed me that I "must" wear shoes to get on the plane. At first I was like, "I don't have shoes; I have sandals in my bag"

When she walked away, I walked away, done no worries.

Well, she sent a local ground crew guy after me. He smiled and asked in English "where are your shoes?" and I go "where are your shoes??" and he laughed.

She came up all "you need to wear your shoes" (or something like that) and I put my bag down saying something like, "okay jesus fucking christ" and they both went away while I had my bag open, during which time I determined that I do not have my sandals in this bag; they are in my checked bag.

So I started walking toward the plane again and Lin admonished me to calm down. I agreed that I had acted inappropriately, but when she was like, "so what do we do now without your shoes?" I go, "we just get on the plane; they can go get my shoes off the plane if they want."

No other crew/staff said anything until I was actually on board. (safe!)

A flight attendant goes, "where are your shoes?" and this time I was more apologetic, "I'm sorry they're in my checked baggage"

she goes, "are you kidding me?"

"Sorry; I've been barefoot for 7 years so I didn't really think about it." I didn't explain further that when I was on Qantas, they didn't bug me.

By the time we were seated (in row 40 because the rows are marked in a confusing way and the couple designated for row 40 were in our row (41)), the flight attendant brought me some slippers which Lin surmised were from first class.

I hope I get a chance to apologize to the first crewmember for acting like an ass, though I haven't seen her on board.

trying to finish the meteor course

03:01 Friday 22 January 2016 PST (8pm JST)

This is the first entry I'm writing after setting my clock back 17 hours to our new local time where clocks will indicate we landed 7.5 hours before we departed.

03:57

Well crapdogs I can't seem to figure out how to extract data from URL via iron:router (without reading documentation (and I can't find the code on my machine booooo))

As long as I have internet access, I wonder if I'll get it done by Sunday (when it's due).