Aaron's Status

6:24 pm

Gone are the days of flying with, like, a dead-tree book. Well, no, of course you can still do that. But now we have in-flight WiFi delivered by geosynchronous satellites and lithium ion batteries and OLED screens (oh my!) Anyway I’m on a plane.

There’s more to tell than I want to write, but, we got the gate in a timely manner only to find that the flight was delayed an hour. After only 5-10 minutes we started boarding and it seemed like we were only going to be delayed like 15 minutes, but after the plane was full and all the overhead bins were closed we just sat there for at least another half hour. OH WELL.

My back has been bugging me a fair bit, but Advil seems to be working, so that’s a true relief, in every sense. Vitamin I for the win! (That’s “I” for “ibuprofen” of course).

Disaster struck my packing strategy when I realized that flying without my Bose noise-canceling headphones is like being kicked in the dick every minute on the minute and that the Bose QC 700 case is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle (relatively speaking). I had to give up on using the Peak Design Field Pouch and found a nice way to redistribute all the charging shit into other pockets in the tote, but I still didn’t have enough space left for my sunglasses case or snacks.

So, off I went to Best Buy to pick up a pair of QuietComfort headphones (they dropped the number because they’re idiots, but these are basically the same body as the QC 45 with minor improvements). These actually fold and have physical buttons, both of which are huge wins overall. I’m wearing them now. The noise cancelation is, as they claim, world-class. I can’t fly without them.

We’ll be in Las Vegas by about 8:30pm local time, which is like, what, 11:30pm in my head? But who cares there’s no time in Las Vegas, right?

Maybe I’ll add an update from the hotel tomorrow. Until then.