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of the rest of the trip wondering just what else i d forgotten in spite of putting everything i needed down on the lists so far i haven t found that out yet although i did forget to bring my laptop charger with me on my last day at the client office that made things a bit dicey on making my laptop last for 5 6 hours on one charge but i somehow pulled that off i can tolerate being in a sardine can for a little while see my comments about the embraer bombardier crj900 above what you want more okay right i m not a germaphobe by any stretch of the imagination but being shoehorned into a jet plane no matter how luxurious or spacious doesn t endear me to my fellow man little eccentricities such as an occasional tic tic tic sound made by one passenger who can t sit still or that teenager hunched over hoodie pulled up playing a video game on their phone can get under my skin putting on earbuds and losing myself in music or a podcast helps a lot but that immersion is lost when you open your eyes and a woman in front of you starts watching one of the puss in boots movies the flight was just long enough however for that to not be a problem if the flight were much longer maybe not so much the seats were hard and had little padding so my butt was falling asleep just as we descended to land each way if we had to wait in the air it would have been kind of miserable the two airbuses were much more comfortable to sit in although there were more seats from side to side and because of the increased width there was greater overall headroom i m happiest with a book i knew i would likely get air sick if i tried to read on the flight but i brought a couple of books with me to read one was that ham radio license manual i ve been studying and the other was the color of magic terry pratchett s first discworld novel i spent most of my down time before bed and at the gate waiting for my flight reading the latter so expect a post out of that fairly soon however after my last work day i discovered a bookstore near my hotel so how did i spent that last evening yeah you knew that was coming i didn t buy anything but i certainly enjoyed the time i spent there you can find inspiration in the most crowded spaces in the middle of charlotte s concourse there s a food court and in the middle of the food court an airport employee played the piano he played some show tunes and popular hits but i finally spoke to him after he played the theme to hill street blues i m old enough to remember when that show was on nbc back in the 1980s and its theme music by mike post i walked up and gave him a tip and thanked him for that piece he told me that once in a while he gets some recognition by a passerby when he plays that tune so he was glad he made my day i then asked him what he liked to play some james bond among other movie themes because people liked to hear it here but what about at home what do you play when nobody s listening oh i mostly play religious pieces yeah i mused i can see where that might be a bit obscure to be played here then again hill street blues is pretty obscure nowadays too i thanked him and headed on to my gate with a bounce in my step i realize he was paid to play for the crowd but it was nice to have a personal touch when walking through an impersonal and under construction transportation hub the tsa lines aren t that bad there i said it i was thinking i was going to get held up in the same manner i did back in the day but that didn t happen the tsa line went quickly and i did what i should always do just tell them the info that they want to know and don t do anything else if they ask then you can say something it only took me 50 odd years to figure this sort of thing out still i did have issues in that no two tsa lines at different airports are alike at one location the tsa checkpoint didn t bother having laptops out of the bags and they took your photo id and ran it through their system at the other location the tsa chekpoint had you remove your laptop and you had to run your photo id through their system yourself oh and the place to put your photo id in was different than the other location i spent probably a good 20 seconds before the tsa guy explained exactly where to put your card in and then i felt quintessentially stupid for a guy who actually works in it i have major blind spots with using tech the airline people are tired of your shit or maybe it was because they had to deal with some less than charitable people in front of me but i took note of how they aggravated the aa employees as the desk and kept my conversation to a minimum bing bang boom done i didn t get a smile even once but to be honest i was just happy to not get harangued i want to make perfectly clear that i was not picking on american airlines employees here i did note that other airlines employees had the same we re done with this look on all their faces so it wasn t just american airlines for certain and it could have been that at 10 30 am the morning rush was over so they had just begun to unwind a bit after the stress of the morning still i made a point to not piss off those in power and don t get me started on the airline employees who got rightfully pissed off by people dropping travelers off picking them up in the drive only lane or other shenanigans that i watched while i had free time when it was time for my wife to pick me up after i returned to cvg i prayed hard that she would just pull in to the side and let me hop right on into the car which she did i am not familiar with modern cars you may laugh but our new car is a 2010 honda cr v backup cameras weren t standard until 2017 and large giant infotainment screens weren t standard on non luxury or sport vehicles until around the mid 2010s my own car wasn t even built in this century as that old 1997 honda accord just keeps right on chugging along and will not die so what did the rental agency give me a brand new toyota prius this thing from fremont toyota i got into that car sat down and couldn t figure out the gear shift for a good 3 minutes once i got to the hotel i spent a couple more minutes trying to figure out how to put the damn thing into park narrator it was a button he had to push same with the parking brake cardwyn so he was as clueless as i would have been and i didn t grow up around those things me shut up both of you i don t want to have to tell my therapist that i ve been hearing voices again cardwyn what voices me it took until mid week before i felt comfortable driving the car luckily for me the thing sipped gasoline so filling up the tank before i dropped it off was no big deal but i really had a hard time dealing with the sloped windshield and rear window you d think i was driving a lamborghini the way it was angled but no that was done for aerodynamics the interior was both spacious and cramped due to the seat angles and the roof aerodynamics and that also bothered the hell out of me still given the number of hybrids and true sports cars on the road where i was at driving a prius kind of blended in the bag self check in system defeated me you know how i said above that for a guy who works in tech i sure have problems with it yeah this again i successfully avoided the self check in system when i traveled out of cvg but when i went to return home there was no avoiding it i was directed to it straight away and once i received the tag the instructions weren t exactly clear as to whether i would need to peel off all of the backing or only part of it thanks to the helpful airline employee hovering over me she must have sensed a tremor in the force it was only a partial removal then i had issues putting the damn suitcase on the scale at the right angle again read the effing instructions red the airline employee admitted it was a new system and people were slow in adapting to it but if i have to travel again i d better get used to it in the end i m glad i got that experience out of my system and outside of my inherent paranoia i think i managed but i really prefer driving by car really prefer it while jets and trains can get me there quicker cars allow me to be completely in control and if speed isn t an issue car travel allows me to feel the scope of the world a bit better than flying by jet ever would if anything flying by jet makes the world feel smaller that s what it s supposed to do but i don t know if that s necessarily a good thing having a feel for the true scale of the world means that you can understand how people may be the same but they are also far more different than we care to admit the easiest way to describe it is to look at mmos fast travel is more convenient and if you re under time pressure it s much better to utilize but if you want a feel of the true scale of the game world slower methods of travel give you that in spades at least as of writing this post my son was about 3 months old and his big sister not quite 3 years old and i wasn t about to leave my wife for a week when it took both of us to keep things going at the house plus we were having issues with our neighbors and i wasn t about to let that get out of hand while i was away the second time for me my wife and i saw it a few months before then i still kind of refuse to call it by its official name the cincinnati and northern kentucky international airport because that was put in place by the airport board as the airport is just across the ohio river in kentucky the airport board is primarily stocked with individuals from northern kentucky the city and ohio in general have mere token representation on the board so they have no real say in what s going on in a way that s a good thing because the airport board is kind of infamous locally for being greedy and short sighted when it comes to managing the interests of the airport and the region astute and air travel savvy fliers will note that means i flew american airlines since charlotte is a major aa hub mike post also wrote the theme music to law and order magnum p i the rockford files quantum leap the a team l a law and the greatest american hero among others my freshman roommate at college had a mike post cd which featured both his television work and his regular pieces i really wish i knew what happened to my cassette copy of that cd posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mmos musings self thursday march 13 2025 steady as she goes helmsman it s been quite a couple of weeks i suppose az is well az i suppose she s the third longest still active toon in wow if you include retail and i was certain she d be my main when classic started up little did i know that raiding and some upstart kid from eastern elwynn would take her place the toons that are farthest along on the chart have gotten into shadowfang keep runs save for hoots who just kills things and skins them and the occasional stormwind stockade run and due to the class quests some blackfathom deeps runs are in the near future for linna and joan in spite of the leveling i ve actually been doing a lot more travel than anything else if i thought i was getting a bit tired of westfall and elwynn forest ashenvale pretty much said hold my beer i ll admit that ashenvale is a nice change of pace from the human lands but given that i keep my human toons hearthstone located back at stormwind i have to make absolutely sure i want to hearth out of a place when it s half a world away from where i ll end up and yes on more than one occasion i ve forgotten where my hearth was set and only discovered after i reappeared whoops still i ve been enjoying this pace nothing crazy mind you but just moving ahead steadily it does come in fits and spurts at times but having done the vanilla classic leveling routine enough times before i m used to it i have been wondering when my next toon culling will happen but nothing has been speaking to me yet i suspect the priests will be left behind next but once i get used to their playstyle after having been away for a week or so i m back to being comfortable once more one thing that i ve found interesting is that a paladin s attack style is fundamentally similar to that of a shaman s or more specifically an enhancement shaman s a paladin leads with an attack that sets up a debuff of some sort the type of lead in will change what the specific debuff is and then the pally waits autoattacking while other abilities become available the enhancement shaman has a similar lead in which will cause a buff to either yourself or a debuff to the enemy and then it too will autoattack until special attacks come off of cooldown i can see why it was done this way since each class is specific to only one faction paladins alliance and shamans horde and that basic similarity is balanced out by the so called fine print i m not gonna argue that the shaman or paladin is a better class because if you don t like playing it what i say won t change your mind one bit i will say however that if i didn t have the mental baggage with me i d be likely playing a lot more of that shaman than some other classes both the shaman and paladin fit my melee playstyle oh well or by accident in westfall that is a wee bit annoying eta fixed a spelling issue posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love wow classic anniversary wednesday march 12 2025 a short interlude i was at our local independent bookstore the other day perusing the ya stacks when a teenaged couple stopped by the girl marched right up to the staff picks on the left grabbed a book and presented it to the boy that was fast the boy said i know this place like the back of my hand the girl announced confidently i gave them some privacy and moved away with a little smile on my face in the 1980s i would have said that about our local bookstore just a 5 minute bike ride away you know i don t think reading is dead just yet i ve experienced this same feeling lately watching teenage gamers at my local game store or even watching youtube videos put out by younger people so obviously invested in reading or tabletop gaming when you need every bit of positivity a lot of these days i take some comfort in that the next generation of geeks is ready to shoulder the load and teach the generation after them to love these pastimes i only got a cursory glance at them so i couldn t tell if they were high school or college age for certain but my guess was they were about 16 years old maybe 17 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books musings rpgs monday march 10 2025 meme monday not quite spring memes we re in that weird not quite spring but not really winter part of the seasonal calendar it s meteorogical spring already that started on march 1st but the vernal equinox is on march 20th hence the weather bounces 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