Notes from the three-legged flight:
1st Leg — Chicago to Detroit
OK, so I’m sitting in an airport with $7 internet access (which hopefully will be around for the next few airports I sit in, too). Security clearance was a breeze, and there is still a good hour or so before I even get on the plane. My battery didn’t recharge for some reason, so it’s only got 51 minutes of power left. I figure I’ll run it down to nothing and then hope I can recharge in Detroit. There is rumor that the 7-1/2 flight is going to be on a plan with power plugs, so that would be great.
It occurs to me frequently that I may die today. More than it should. I blame, among many others, Freakonomics and that stats analysis that says, per hour, plane travel is just as dangerous (or maybe moreso) than car travel. Also, most of those safety stats are pre toothpaste-and-hair-gel bomb attempts. So, from a dynamic network perspective, things likely have changed quite a bit. I’m not sure if I should feel safer (a hyper response to the problem) or more threatened (hey, I’ll be coming home about two weeks after the problem first surfaced in the UK).
