Aaron Landry

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NW5636 PIT-MSP

The Divine Comedy’s Regeneration on the iPod.

Flying lower than normal this flight due to winds.

Our flight attendant, Trista, privatly yawned and looks stressed. She slowly drank an orange juice with her eyes closed as if no one can see her now that she is not smiling to her passangers. She then stared at her reflection in a silver tea kettle for a minute. She turned around to see me looking at her out of the corner of my eye (but probably not assuming I’m moblogging her) and she smiled through the side of her mouth as if she is trying to optimistically sigh at the same time.

What countries are left that still allow smoking on flights? I know there are many out there, but I am surprised, a bit, that they haven’t just stopped putting “No Smoking” signs up and “No Cigarette Disposal” on trash bins.

I want some more pretzels. They should have special bonus-pretzel seats that may be awarded for certain reasons. Not like first-class stuff, but just coach with all-you-can-imagine pretzels. I’ve discussed this idea with others. Maybe seat 9-B on all flights is Northwest’s Pretzel Elite Seat, and you have to answer a few questions and specifically ask for it like an Exit Row. You then become designated the Pretzel Czar for the flight, although flight attendants would still distribute pretzels normally.

I am now flying over Lake Michigan. It’s Great.

-Aaron (over an area that looks like it might be getting close to Sheboygan, Wisconsin)

Update: It turned out to be Milwaukee

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NW1054 MSP-PIT

All of the usual suspects on this flight. Dr. Chester L. Karrass on the power of negotiation, funny plane safety illustrations, guy with a laptop going through a shitty powerpoint presentation, a guy watching a DVD, a woman sleeping… My iPod listening to the new Pink Martini. I can’t get myself past the tracks Kikuchiyo to Mohshimasu and Autrefois. Another woman has a SKII on this flight, although I have no reason to talk to her. She seemed to be constantly IMing before the flight while her male counterpart sat next to her, bored. Isn’t that how it always is? Hiptop users have more fun.

I pulled out my eTrex Legend C for awhile and matched up the roads on the map with those on the ground after I lost track around Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Such a beautiful day out in Minneapolis: Saw the town where I grew up, my mother’s house and a bunch of other places and lakes I know well from the sky, a nice flying tour over the northern and eastern suburbs thanks to my flight path and my port-side window seat.

My girlfriend, Lauren, is flying United instead. Hopefully she got off the ground and got to her connection in Chicago. I don’t want to be waiting for her in Pittsburgh all night.

Another scary thing: as her flight won’t arrive now for awhile after I get there, I may end up meeting Lauren’s parents for the first time, and spending a couple hours with them before she can even introduce me.

-Aaron over the Detroit, MI area

N42°00′ W083°18′ 828km/h 8167m above sea level Bearing 122°