Indianapolis Airport.

.....It was a 2:30 AM take off from Bloomington. Guess what? There is no traffic on Indiana highways at 3AM. Just saying. :-)

.....On my way to Charlotte, NC, as a connector to Jacksonville. I should be in Florida before noon. Which is rather unusual for a Florida trip without taking the red-eye. I think I'll enjoy it.

.....The Project Manager has already asked me to come in on Saturday. He is not used to having me readily available and already has a stack of 'stuff' he wants done really badly while I'm on site. He's going to pay me overtime to do it. The Big Boss will probably not be happy if he ever finds out, but I don't think he will.

.....I don't mind actually. It's rather cool to actually be wanted by your Project Team rather than treated as an uneducated idiot. :-)

.....That was fast! They are already calling for seats. See you all in Charlotte!

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Live From North Carolina.

.....The Charlotte, NC, airport is something of a hub for the area. Which basically means the airport is much bigger than you would expect it to be. It reminds me a lot of the Chicago airport in the mall stores located every couple of dozen feet. :-)

.....The Charlotte to Jacksonville flight leaves in about two hours. I'm probably going to wander around here in a little when the battery starts running low.

.....I'm hoping the Project Manager is not expecting brilliance on any sort of epic nature. I'm starting to feel a little stretched. Sort of like Bilbo and his analogy of butter scraped over too much bread. I'm feeling a bit loopy and slow. Definitely a lack of sleep. I think I've averaged about three to four hours each night since last Friday. Mainly I seem to just toss and turn around in bed until I have covers all over the room.

.....If I start seeing the Big Boss as Sauron during nap time on the plane I will KNOW it is time for some real sleep. :-) Actually, I think that I have become so used to having TBT and the cats with me so much that I unconsciously miss them to the point of not sleeping when I am away. Even having the T.V. on at night (something I never used to do before I met TBT) isn't helping much.

.....I'm booked at the Hampton Inn in Kingsland. I'm hoping they have a hot tub of some type. I'm thinking that an hour or so of soaking in really bubbling hot water will help.

.....I really should cut back on the Diet Mountain Dew as well. But it's an addiction that is hard to curb. :-)

.....TBT has been a proponent of getting us an I-Touch and a cheap companion cell phone (a la Talon). I've been kind of watching people around the airport and I am definitely seeing less actual laptops than I used to even a year or so ago. People are doing a lot of living through their portable phones, and Droids and such.

.....I'm starting to warm up smartly to the I-Touch as it would be nice to cut down some of the baggage I'm carting around with me. I've got a couple of books, the laptop, the MP3 player. Plus all the required attachments (cords, batteries, accessories, etc.). By the time you add up the weight of everything I think I'm carting around several extra pounds of 'stuff' I could eliminate with the I-Touch option. Not something I gave a lot of thought too until I started realizing how much actual 'stuff' I'm carting around with me through the airport.

.....I haven't logged into Farmville much over the past week and it looks like the family noticed. My long lost cousin e-mailed anxiously wondering if something had happened to me as I hadn't tended my crops lately. :-)

.....Eeep, also got e-mail soliciting for help with the 25th Year High School Reunion. Holy Cow! Has it really been twenty-five years?! I recognized the organizer right away as one of the popular cheerleader crowd from high school. I wondered at first a.) how she found me, and b.) why she looked for me. But then I came to the realization that I logged SKHS as my high school in my Facebook Profile. Damn! Should have known better. :-)

.....TBT isn't too interested in going. But I'm kind of curious to see who shows up. We've lost so many people already from the Class of '85 that I'm also starting to think that the rest of us 'survivors' should meet to cheer ourselves on for making it this far. :-)

.....There goes my battery light. I've got to move closer to a plug-in. The next post will be from Jacksonville itself.

.....Aaron / Arontius.