Monday I lost my Zune for good. I left it in an airport lounge. It has my name and phone number on it. No calls. Nice.
Tuesday morning I thought the flight to Houston left at 8:45AM. I made my way out the door at 7:40AM thinking I had plenty of time. On the way I looked up the departing gate using my phone...that's when I saw the flight left at 8:25AM. Doh!
I made it to the gate with 10 minutes to spare. No biggie.
My dad is still kind of old school....no cell phone. I called him and said I would meet him downstairs at baggage claim. When I arrived...no dad. Hmm. I walked around a bit looking for his car . While walking outside I heard a car honk...I turned around to see a Silver Hyundai Sonata.....Dad? Yep. Wow.
Growing up my dad always had a full size extended car truck. Let me rephrase that, a full size AMERICAN made extended car truck. Here he was in a Hyundai Sonata? He previously had a Mercury Sable....which while not a truck, is still "American" made.
He drove me up to a BBQ place for lunch. I ate way to much....but it was good.
We then went to Wal-mart as he needed a new printer for his computer. His current printer is 5+ years old and barely functional. I picked out a very nice Canon printer/scanner a crazy cheap $35! Of course ink refills will cost $45 for color and black. Nice.
I installed the printer and then realized how old his computer is. I built it for him a good 4 years ago. It's old. As far as performance it's not bad. It's a 1.8 GHz Celeron, 40 Gig HD but only 512 MB of RAM. That's part of the issue. I'm building him a new computer as we speak.
After installing the printer I install a DVD/VHS combo unit. He bought it months ago. The unit can play DVDs, play VHS tapes, record TV to DVD and copy VHS tapes to DVD. Pretty neat. I connected it up and then we went back to Wal-Mart to buy blank DVDs. To both of our surprise copying a VHS tape to DVD is literally a one button affair! Nice.
About an hour later it was time for me to head back to the airport. About 20 minutes away I realized I forgot my car keys at his house. Back we went. Because of this I would miss the next flight.
When I got to the airport the flight I wanted to catch was still at the gate. Delayed. I still missed it by minutes. No big deal as it was full and I would have been on the jump seat in the cockpit. As it turned out the flight left the gate then came back for more fuel. The next flight arrived. I ended up getting a row to myself and arrived in DFW just 8 minutes after the "earlier" flight. Nice.
I've only had one other job with really good "perks". My first job out of college was working for Time Warner Cable in Houston. I worked in the high speed internet department. One benefit was free cable, all channels, free high speed internet and 1/2 price pay per view. That was pretty good. Flying for free/almost free is much better.
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