This was my Tuesday... I was too tired to blog about it yesterday.
5AM Wake up.
5:40AM Get in car in Bay Ridge.
6:05AM Enter LaGuardia Airport parking lot.
6:13AM Check in to 7AM flight, which has now been pushed back to 7:25.
7:10AM Board plane.
8:48AM Land in Dulles, VA.
9:30AM Finish Cosi parfait. Get cab.
9:54AM Arrive at biz dev meeting.
11:45AM Leave campus for lunch with fun potential partner team.
12:15PM Get seated for lunch at local microbrewery/grill.
12:26PM Chicken sandwich arrives.
1:26PM Return from lunch to continue meetings.
3:33PM Leave for airport with chatty cab driver.
3:56PM Arrive at airport and check in for 5:35 flight.
3:57PM Black cat crosses path. Cat cannot get wifi connection either.
4:49PM Flight pushed back to 6PM.
5:30PM Flight pushed back to 6:30PM.
6:01PM Flight pushed back to 7:05PM.
6:39PM Flight pushed back to 7:35PM.
6:58PM Announcement that LaGuardia Airport has been closed due to visability.
6:59PM Check NYC weather on phone... 66. Rain. Yes, seems like that should close an airport.
7:30PM Flight cancelled. 9PM flight full. Please go to the customer service line.
7:31PM Customer service line has 6,000 people on it. Break for Avis.
7:55PM Arrive at Avis.
"Carkeep, give me the world handling car you have...something that corners like a whitewater raft. An Impala? Oh yes, that will do fine."
8:08PM
"Its 250 miles to LaGuardia. I've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of overpriced airport trailmix. Its dark, and I'm wearing khakis.
Hit it."
12:38AM Arrive at LaGuardia Avis, located close to the airport in downtown Saskachawan by the Marine Aviation Terminal.
12:52AM Start waiting for the Avis Shuttle, which comes every five minutes, to get back to the parking lot.
1:15AM Avis shuttle arrives.
1:33AM Exit Laguardia parking lot, peeling out in Mustang, because I was used to Impala's pickup, or lack thereof.
1:52AM Park in Bay Ridge.
2:01AM Sleep in my own bed...zzzzzzz