Author: Craig
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Wear Your Badge At All Times
Picked up my badge & assorted paraphernalia on Wednesday, around midday. The colour stripe behind the badge is my ALLY badge ribbon from last year. In this situation, I suspect, it looks more like CLOSETED. The folks who do those ribbons (Tabletop Gamers) had a last-minute fundraising campaign, after their sponsor had to drop out,…
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Monday? Monday.
The one downside of splitting my trip into two parts, flying and train, is that I’ve been traveling for two days just to get to here; Today felt a bit quiet as a result. Not, however, in any way a bad day; Caught up with Tom in the morning, and again in the evening. Wandered…
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Monday In Indianapolis
Ok, so when we last checked in, I think I’d made it to the hotel & gone splat for the night? The train to Indianapolis wasn’t until the evening, and check out was a very civilised mid-day, so I had a bit of time to kill, and breakfast to eat. In my defense, this was…
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Flying Is A Privilege?
The Aer Lingus aircraft … couldn’t … so we’re on a Privilege aircraft instead. Still the same flight number, but very different accents. (not entirely sure where they’re from; Spain, maybe?) You may now revel in the pun in this post title. Revel, I Say! ~~~ Time Passes ~~~ Lightning Crashes ~~~ Given my limited…
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51st & Green
US Preclearance in Dublin was pretty damn uneventful. I was hazy on the photography rules post-preclearance, so I didn’t take pictures of the Last Chance To Get Your Twee Shit kiosk. I mean, it wasn’t called that on any sign, but it’s clearly what was going on. I was tempted by a “Feck It; Sure,…
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Waiting On A Plane
I’m writing this offline due to poor free wifi time-management. And because having used the free allowance for plebs in the procss of getting signed up for the longer allowance for Heathrow Rewards members, the system is sticking to “Time’s Up, Prole” and not letting me wave my “I’m A Special Snowflake” identity to get…
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Mission Elapsed Time: -15h Or So?
Things went more or less to plan. The More is that I’m here in my cabin at Heathrow Terminal 4, with my stuff, ready to fly out tomorrow. The Less is that I had to go back to my residence (yeah, that didn’t sound clumsy at all) to drop off my rent for the month,…
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Does Anyone Still Watch This Space?
It’s Wednesday night. I fly out on Saturday midday-ish, though I’m leaving Aylesbury on Friday night & spending the night in an airport hotel, as I wasn’t sure how long it’d take to get to Heathrow on a Saturday morning. And because staying in a hotel inside the terminal is kind of fun. Haven’t 100%…