Austin Improv

Arrived safe and sound but; boy, let me tell you...

Mike couldn't make it to be my airport ride through no fault of his own; he had to go to the hospital (and dude, get better, okay?) so I had to call a taxi.

The taxi didn't show up. Turns out instead of my address in Deerfield Drive, Austin, they sent it to someplace in HAYES COUNTY!

So I'm standing there 20 minutes after I'm supposed to be picked up, I have to call them multiple times - oh, and I'm going to the AIRPORT, so you might think that time was a factor!

Turns out I didn't need it so much, for some reason I didn't get pulled by security. Which means just chilling and starting on the iPod.

All the flights were delayed; so I didn't take off until about 2pm. When I get to Dallas, I'm told that they were not going to be able to get me to Virginia before tomorrow (and the wired interview is tomorrow) so they transfer me to a flight heading towards Norfolk, which is about 45 minutes away from the airport I want to go to, Newport News, and about 65 minutes away from my parent's place.

I didn't get home until 2am EST.

I ache all over. I'm really glad I bought that iPod battery replacement. I went through 1 & 2/3rds audiobooks - before the battery went dead after about 13 hours.

I get home and it turns out I have no place to put my computer; the only desk here cannot support a monitor, so I'm still using my laptop. (if i'm here more than a few weeks, I think I will invest in a second-hand computer desk) and I'm just... grr-argh.

Glad you made it safe and relatively sound.

What audiobooks are you listening to? I am an audiobook fanatic these days.

Roy Janik wrote:Glad you made it safe and relatively sound.

What audiobooks are you listening to? I am an audiobook fanatic these days.

Freakonomics, which is interesting partially because I could really, really understand the book better than trying to read it... it's the same exact text, too...

Basically, I just learned that I'm an audio learner. I -can- learn things from books, but it's easier to learn them from books on tape; I think I'll be a serious audiobookphile when I get enough money to pay for them.

The other "book" really wasn't a book and more an audio play. You guys know I'm a Doctor Who fanatic. Turns out that they make Doctor Who Audio Plays. The writing's really good (it's almost jarring to hear the same actors who gave these hackneyed lines and bad-script performances in the TV show get dome really, really good modern-style material to work with) and -- here's the best part -- the multimillion dollar production values of my imagination that the old show just never had.

Honestly; I like the -concept- of Doctor Who but classic Who just takes too long to tell the story and is full of bad lines and dialogue. It beats Star Trek by a mile, but it doesn't age well. But you put in good writers with good plots...

I had the wired interview today followed by a crazy-ass conversation with my parents that I don't know if I should try to repeat.