Nothing like the flight from Tucson to Phoenix. One hour of boarding/deboarding and 30 minutes in the air. The nice thing about arriving in Sky Harbor airport is the cool automated walkways. I love those things. I don't really see why I have to change terminals when I'm on the same airline, but I don't mind the walk and it gives me a chance to walk SUPER FAST on the rolling automatic walkways. Phoenix airport is the only airport I've been too that has these walkways (not as if I'm a connoisseur of airports...) I wonder if it shares some symbolism with the massive sprawl of Phoenix and all that.
The flight was pretty neat. I didn't get to sleep but I did read a bit in my book. I was seated on the eastern side of the plane and was able to watch the sunrise from a plane's eye view. I've never seen that before. I think it would have been prettier if not viewed through thick scratched plastic windows, but I appreciated it none-the-less.
Upon arrival I purchased a delicious cinnabon and walked half a terminal out of the way to get an Americano to go with it. What can I say, I like Starbuck's Americanos. Something about that burnt espresso taste. mmmm...
Now I'm waiting for my plane to start boarding. I strongly dislike US Airways. It's nothing really different about the airline vs others, so much that I've grown accustomed to the quick efficiency of Southwest coupled with the wry humor of the attendants. It takes forever to board the US Airways plane, once boarded they make slow lurching progress towards buttoning down the plane and departing. The crew is bored and humorless and (I'm probably imagining this part) the plane is cramped. Southwest on the other hand herds people in in massive groups, you snatch the first seat that catches your fancy and while the plane is taxing the crew is sealing the baggage areas, regaling tales and reading the safety guidelines. And not that the free drinks are that big of a deal, but I noticed that NO ONE ordered a soda for 2 bucks on my flight out. I guess that was probably the real intent of charging for drinks on US Airways flights...
The Americano is almost finished and my plane will start boarding in 10 minutes. Time to get ready to watch United 93! That should be a good plane movie! :)
[UPDATE]
Just as I put my laptop to sleep, we got an announcement. Flight Delay. Maintenance on the plane, probably 30 minutes. I guess I'll try and get Jagged Alliance 2 to work in WINE instead of boarding. :)
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sky Harbor
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Things must be slow. Lots of Blogs. Really enjoy reading them.
Did you get Jagged Alliance 2 working? I love that game, but I've never finished it.
I think I rely on too few people early, and I'm not powerful enough at the end when trying to take the capital city.
Not on my laptop, but I've gotten it working on my desktop. The only trick I had to do was tell wine to create a virtual desktop of 800x600 or some such, then it worked.
That game was great. I think it's one of my favorites of all time. A completely static world and really cool game mechanics. Not to mention mercs you hire with personalities. Oh yeah, and the exploding heads when your guys get really good at head shots. :)
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