Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Monday, March 29, 2010
Bleary Eyes
I guess I got some sleep on the plane, because I just woke up and they served breakfast. I got maybe three hours or so. It's 3:43am in Dallas; we land in Paris at 4:29am and I'll embark again 6:50am. I'll be in Riyadh at 12:55pm (God willing), so about 9 hours left. I thought I was a kick ass road warrior when I wrote the last post, then shortly after I felt pretty terrible before I went to sleep. I am back to feeling pretty good again, hopefully it lasts.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
First blog post ever, not even on a blog
I'm writing this first post from a plane leaving North America somewhere over Canada and the Atlantic Ocean. And while I'm writing this on word, rather than on a blog, it still amazes me that I'm sitting on a chair 35k feet above the ground with my computer plugged into an outlet. It's 10:45 pm Dallas time, and I arrived to DFW at 9am Sunday projected to be landing in Riyadh at 1pm CST Monday. So after another glass of wine and a couple of poker instructional videos, I'll be half way.
Highlights so far:
1.Free Delta Sky Lounge: I went into the lounge with the intention of paying $ 50 for a lounge pass this morning. Thinking I might as well buy it at the beginning, since it's a flat rate for my whole trip and I'll probably want it later. And I figured, at least in expected value I could make up the cost playing poker and kill some time on my layover. Well, the guy saw how far I was going and invited me as his guest, "Save your money. You can use this pass in Atlanta to get in the lounge there too. "Hat tip Delta.
2.Won $ 180 playing internet poker against the softy Euros in the morning games and $ 50 playing the early evening games in Atlanta. So that's nice, since I may not be able to play in the kingdom.
3.Reading Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone. It is a book filled with insight and advice of a practical nature that I sorely need. The beginning focuses on goal setting and even dreaming and was one of the things that inspired me to try to move abroad. It took a long time, but I accomplished a goal-I'm on a plane pursuing a new adventure, whatever mistakes I've made, that's something. I'm sure I'll use the book as a jumping off point for many future posts.
Highlights so far:
1.Free Delta Sky Lounge: I went into the lounge with the intention of paying $ 50 for a lounge pass this morning. Thinking I might as well buy it at the beginning, since it's a flat rate for my whole trip and I'll probably want it later. And I figured, at least in expected value I could make up the cost playing poker and kill some time on my layover. Well, the guy saw how far I was going and invited me as his guest, "Save your money. You can use this pass in Atlanta to get in the lounge there too. "Hat tip Delta.
2.Won $ 180 playing internet poker against the softy Euros in the morning games and $ 50 playing the early evening games in Atlanta. So that's nice, since I may not be able to play in the kingdom.
3.Reading Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone. It is a book filled with insight and advice of a practical nature that I sorely need. The beginning focuses on goal setting and even dreaming and was one of the things that inspired me to try to move abroad. It took a long time, but I accomplished a goal-I'm on a plane pursuing a new adventure, whatever mistakes I've made, that's something. I'm sure I'll use the book as a jumping off point for many future posts.
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