Nice as cookies.<\/p>\n
I mean, except for the flight back, to which I say:<\/p>\n
EAT SPECTACULAR SHIT, AIR CANADA.<\/p>\n
This is the third time I’ve traveled with them.<\/p>\n
And the third time they’ve canceled a flight\u00a0right out from under me<\/em>.<\/p>\n Like, you get to the airport.<\/p>\n You wait until approximately the boarding time.<\/p>\n And then the flight is just — boop! It’s fucking gone. It never existed, maybe. It was a collective hallucination borne by the ticket-holders, who knows. Either way: this happened again yesterday and they were like, “You can go home tomorrow instead.” And I was like, “There are no additional flights?” They said there was one, but it had no seats. And they were going to give me a hotel room but they didn’t have any hotel rooms and I was gonna have to wait. And technically I had to be back here today because I have child-entangled things to do, and then also Halloween tomorrow, so my kid was crushed I wasn’t coming home. While waiting, I toodled around the Internet for about 17 seconds and found out hey yeah there\u00a0are too<\/em> seats available on the next flight?<\/p>\n The Air Canada person told me (in what I am to understand was a lie) that she couldn’t rebook me on that one For Reasons, and I could book it and they’d just fix the difference later? Ugh. So I did that.<\/p>\n That flight was to leave at 9PM.<\/p>\n And ended up not leaving until after 10PM.<\/p>\n Which meant I didn’t get\u00a0home<\/em> until after 1AM, which is not fun.<\/p>\n But I got to gently wake up B-Dub and give the kid a hug, which was honestly the best reward at the end of such an irritating kidney stone of a journey.<\/p>\n Oh also, another thing that makes it all worth it? Yeah, that’s right.<\/p>\n That’s Levar Burton.<\/p>\n One of the actual architects of both my childhood and, one could argue,\u00a0my very career<\/em>. Inspiring me then, and inspiring me now because this dude is as kind as any. He walks into a room and introduces himself to everybody, warm and smiling. He is pure cool and total comfort. (Bonus: to my great shock, he knew who I was, which pretty much completes Life Bingo, I think. I won life. I have conquered the summit. If I perish here, know I am satisfied at having made it.)<\/p>\n So: if given a chance to go to Hal-Con?<\/p>\n Do it.<\/p>\n (Just don’t fly Air Canada.)<\/p>\n Let’s see, what else is up?<\/p>\n Big announcement tomorrow, I think.<\/p>\n The Mega Ultra Super Big-Ass Book Bundle is still on sale for another day, 50% off with coupon NANO2018 — you can click here to grab a shitload of writing books and a couple novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Levar-And-Moi_HALCON2018.jpg?resize=700%2C932\")
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