{"id":12,"date":"2013-08-11T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T00:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-08-25T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:54:45","slug":"at-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"At LAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the food court strip mall at the Tom Bradley(?) International terminal at LAX.<br \/>\nThe airport wifi &#8230; Isn&#8217;t, as near as I can tell. Lots of &#8216;connecting&#8217;, but no actual connection. Then again, it doesn&#8217;t want any money, so I suppose I&#8217;m getting exactly what I&#8217;m paying for.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely feeling more stressy\/anxious on this trip, though its happening in waves. Waiting for the plane in the Gate Lounge at Auckland was bad, though hanging out with Kevin\/Tonya\/Tamsin before that was fine. Most of the flight was stress-free, if bumpy, except for the last hour or so.<br \/>\nImmigration &#038; Border Control was a long slow wait &#038; a short &#8216;direct&#8217; interrogation by the CBP lady, who was &#8230; professionally polite.<br \/>\nNo issues, which is good, but I didn&#8217;t get mistaken for being in my 30&#8217;s, which is what happened last time. 3:)<\/p>\n<p>I kind of wandered for a bit, and took a long time to figure out that I needed to actually buy some water, as opposed to just thinking about doing so. Drinking that now, &#038; contemplating how to kill a few (6+) hours before the flight to Chicago.<br \/>\nThere was a vague plan to go and see Andrei if I was awake enough; Don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>In-flight sleeping did happen, sometimes during movies, but I&#8217;ve now seen The Croods, Oblivion <em>(the Tom Cruise SF thing)<\/em>, Skyfall, and most of Die Hard 5.<br \/>\nOh, and a minute of a live-action Detective Conan, which, not being subtitled, did not hold my interest.<\/p>\n<p><em>found the LAX wifi in the American terminal, thus this post <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The current plan is to do the check-in &#038; boarding pass bit, as they couldn&#8217;t issue the US passes to me in Auckland, like they did last year, and then probably go on through to the air side.<br \/>\nCurrently not hungry, but if there&#8217;s no food service places airside I&#8217;m in for a long-ass wait. Seems unlikely though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-172129.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-172129.jpg\" alt=\"20130810-172129.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the food court strip mall at the Tom Bradley(?) International terminal at LAX. The airport wifi &#8230; Isn&#8217;t, as near as I can tell. Lots of &#8216;connecting&#8217;, but no actual connection. Then again, it doesn&#8217;t want any money, so I suppose I&#8217;m getting exactly what I&#8217;m paying for. I&#8217;m definitely feeling more stressy\/anxious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gencon2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}