{"id":673,"date":"2008-06-10T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/06\/10\/tuesday-evening-en-route-delayed-post\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:20:00","slug":"tuesday-evening-en-route-delayed-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/06\/10\/tuesday-evening-en-route-delayed-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday evening – en route (delayed post)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tuesday Night \u2013 in the air         <\/span><\/p>\n

Folks.. sorry this post is a bit late.. I haven’t been able to get connectivity since I left VT last night. I’m on my way to South Africa<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> for an Academy meeting.. The meeting stared today, but I didn’t want to leave town on Gabe’s birthday. We had a great day.. After I wrote yesterday Gabe and Max went out to the canoe access and hunted each other with paintball guns.. as soon as they got home. We went to Sakura’s for Sushi\/\/ Gabe’s birthday choice. !.. This time we had plenty of time to eat.. <\/p>\n

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then we went over to see IronMan at the Majestic. I absolutely loved that movie\u2026 but it was so fake .I think all of the technology stuff was pretty believable, but come on..  <\/span>no one that looks like Gweneth Paltrow would ever<\/i> date someone who had gone to MIT.   <\/span>By the way, Starks friend the the Col.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> in the movie (Rider ? Ridly)  <\/span>was wearing a big fat ugly MIT Ring (a ‘brass rat’ as we call it) in every scene.. Nice touch. !<\/p>\n

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   <\/span>After the movie,  <\/span>the family took me to the airport to pick up a rental  <\/span>car.  <\/span>I kissed them all good night.. including my brand new 13 year old and headed south to NYC.. it was about 10 PM<\/st1:time>.<\/p>\n

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Actually it wasn’t quite that smooth.. I’d left my phone charger in the Prius.. so Diane, Max and Gabe had to wait for me in the Shaw’s parking lot before I headed down..   <\/span>The drive down to NYC was fun. Quiet and smooth. I spent a few hours on the phone with folks. Which helped me stay awake.. (thanks., Mom. Jim. Curry) .. The drive to JFK tool almost exactly 5 hours.. about 2 hours less than during the day.. I got to the airport around 3:30<\/st1:time> for a 7:30<\/st1:time> flight.. so I just sat there and worked.. <\/p>\n

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By the time I got on my flight to London<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> I was pretty sleepy.. I slept about half the way there\u2026 The flight as empty so I was able to lay down across 5 seats.. sweet !
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<\/span>The 6 and a half hours went by in a flash.. I tell you, time passes SO differently for me now.. I’m starting to really love long  <\/span>drives, flights, any long  <\/span>spell like that.. I listen to music.. think.. and mostly.. don’t <\/i> <\/span>think.. I just sit and space out. I tell you .. John Cohn 1.0 could simply  <\/span>not do that.. Long periods of  <\/span>quiet time like that used to drive me nuts.. now I crave it.. <\/p>\n

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Anyway.. We gt to Heathrow about 7:30PM<\/st1:time> .. and my flight to Johannesburg<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was supposed to board at 7:15<\/st1:time>..   <\/span>eeeeek !.. The airline folks said that they should never have issued me this connection.. Anyway I ran close to a mile (it seemed) to make this flight.  <\/span>I slid into the plane just as they were closing the cabin door. I had only enough time before boarding to drop a sam stone in the waiting room.. <\/p>\n

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It was fun looking down on the English countryside.. This isn’t veryfar from where Diane and I lived from 1984-86<\/p>\n

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Now I’m about an hour and a half into the ten  <\/span>and a half hour flight to J’burg.. I think I’m going to try and get some  <\/span>sleep now. I ‘ll try to post this from  <\/span>the meeting when I get there.   <\/span><\/p>\n

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G’nite folks from somewhere over the Congo (I think)   <\/span>G’nite Sam<\/p>\n

-me <\/p>\n

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Tuesday Night \u2013 in the air         Folks.. sorry this post is a bit late.. I haven’t been able to get connectivity since I left VT last night. I’m on my way to South Africa for an Academy meeting.. The meeting stared today, but I didn’t want to leave town on Gabe’s birthday. We had a … Continue reading Tuesday evening – en route (delayed post)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}