Hello from the Left Coast......

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jakez4ut

jakez4ut

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Good evening nationals.....it's 10 pm local time, which means most of you are sleeping thru the middle of your night.

a few observations about cross country travel, in coach (it's been a few years since i've come out here):
1. You know it's just not your day when you sit down, and there's a 14 month old to your left, an 8 month old to the right, a 2 year old behind you.
2. I knew i was on a flight full of people going BACK to L.A. when i heard one of the passengers tell the flight attendant he needed to "bounce". i was supremely proud of said attendant when he replied, "bounce? you better sit down and shut up before i bounce you off this plane." :salute:
3. referring to 1 above, i have an 8 month old at home, and that didn't make me feel any more patient with other people's kids. that may be wrong, but it's simply the truth. I don't have to like your loud ass kids.
4. 5 1/2 hour flight with two week old magazines, the sunday paper and an ipod and the in flight movie leaves you with about 2 hours of solid "nothing to do time".
5. next time i'm sleeping on the plane. no matter what.
6. i didn't know you could see smog at night?
7. has John Cusack ever done a movie w/out his sister being in it, playing his sister?
8. I am having to spend the work week in California with what i could only say is the equivalent of John Candy's character in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", except w/out the happy ending. I literally had a conversation with him today where i never responded with more than a one syllable word, and it lasted for over a 1/2 hour.
9. the Vandy game is on at 6 tomorrow. at least i have an excuse for not having to eat dinner with 8 above.
10. it was much harder leaving my wife and daughter than it ever has been to simply leave my wife. that sounds a lot worse than i'm intending to.....

look forward to the return trip on Friday. y'all have a great day......Go Vols, Beat Vandy.
 
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At least you weren't on the plane from somewhere in Latin America that flew all the way to N.Y. with a dead passenger who was a heart attack victum. Then again, having been on a flight to St. Martin sitting behind two sreaming kids, the corpse would have been preferable.
 
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jakez4ut said:
8. I am having to spend the work week in California with what i could only say is the equivalent of John Candy's character in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", except w/out the happy ending. I literally had a conversation with him today where i never responded with more than a one syllable word, and it lasted for over a 1/2 hour.
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Those aren't pillows!
 
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i've lived in LA for 20 years and still haven't seen smog since i was 5. fog is not smog.
 
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8. I am having to spend the work week in California with what i could only say is the equivalent of John Candy's character in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", except w/out the happy ending. I literally had a conversation with him today where i never responded with more than a one syllable word, and it lasted for over a 1/2 hour.
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:eek:lol:The conversational equivalent of a 'weekend in review' post!!!!

You didn't deserve that Jakez, but I couldn't resist...
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
:eek:lol:The conversational equivalent of a 'weekend in review' post!!!!

You didn't deserve that Jakez, but I couldn't resist...
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don't worry, i knew as i typed that, there was some irony involved.

and you'd be surprised, as much as gush here, i'm not one for long, drawn out, meaningless conversations.

say what you have to say, mean it, and be done with it.

honeslty, i could care less about.....well, i can't even remember half the crap he's talked about so far, that's how relevant it's been.

thank you to the nation though for allowing me the medium to get all this crap off my chest.

even if half of you don't want to spend the time to read it!:p
 
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i have no idea, i've spend the past two days stuck in a truck terminal doing audits. i swear with the time change and lack of sleep, i thought it was already Thursday.
 
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smog does exist btw...as i drove in to the valley this afternoon, the sky was blue, the sun shining, and a thin rusty haze hung over the skyline, just below the mountain tops.......reminded me of Houston. except minus the mountains.
 
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jakez4ut said:
smog does exist btw...as i drove in to the valley this afternoon, the sky was blue, the sun shining, and a thin rusty haze hung over the skyline, just below the mountain tops.......reminded me of Houston. except minus the mountains.
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that's why i don't go to the valley. outside my office in downtown LA i have a nice view of the santa monica mountains and hollywood. clear as a bell. you do see some smog in the valley, but it is really widely exagerated for the rest of LA.
 
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milohimself said:
Absolutely no reason to be in the valley anyways.

I feel bad for people who live there.
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me too.

i can see why there's an attraction for people living here, but let's just say, i'm a fish out of water out here.

took me over an hour to go 12 miles this morning.

that sucked.:no:

on a positive note, most everyone i've come in contact with has been very pleasant and courteous, i don't remember it being that way the last time i was out here.
 
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those of us who live her find ways to avoid most traffic. the traffic in LA is vastly overrated. it's much worse in dc, phili, san francisco, etc.
 
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That's how Chicago was - some routes/time were terrible, others were fine.

There hard part was deciphering the traffic report eg. "The Eisenhower is 45 minutes from the Post Office to Mannheim"
 
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droski said:
those of us who live her find ways to avoid most traffic. the traffic in LA is vastly overrated. it's much worse in dc, phili, san francisco, etc.
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i'm not going to pretend to be an expert, but of the routes i've traveled most this week, CA60, 710, 110, 10.....they've all been at one point or another, just awful.
 
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The last time I was in CA I stayed in Ontario and made a trip to Long Beach one morning. I believe that is about a 45 mile drive that took me 2 hours.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i'm not going to pretend to be an expert, but of the routes i've traveled most this week, CA60, 710, 110, 10.....they've all been at one point or another, just awful.
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yeah those areas rarely don't stink. too many people commuting from east to west. thankfully i'm in and out of work early and rarely hit major traffic. LA is a situation where if you have to drive at a certain time you may get royally f-ed. if you have a couple of hours leway it's not too bad. it's still much better than the bay area where you can run into massive traffic at 4am. edit: i'm not trying to say LA traffic doesn't stink, just that it isn't NEARLY as bad as people say it is.
 
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