{"id":1176,"date":"2006-10-30T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/yellow-rose-etc\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:04:31","slug":"yellow-rose-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/yellow-rose-etc","title":{"rendered":"Yellow rose, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking through the gate into the airport terminal, I realized that this is my 4th visit to San Antonio: 3 pharma conferences and 1 car wash industry event (I got my start on a magazine called Auto Laundry News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve been through a bunch of airports large and small in the last 10 years. Sometimes I don’t remember a lot about them. I didn’t recall anything about San Antonio until I started walking down the long hallway to the baggage claim and ground transport (I was looking for the latter, since I had everything in my carry-on). It was then that I thought, “Oh, yeah! They had that game room with the Addams’ Family pinball machine!”<\/p>\n

And, lo and behold, what was in the next doorway to my right? Showtime! Well, not exactly, since it was 11pm and I was too exhausted from the 4 hours in the air, 3 hours in the airport, and the hour or so I’d spent sawing trees and hauling lumber that day.<\/p>\n

But it was reassuring to see the machine there.<\/p>\n

The flight wasn’t eventful. Most of us were on the way to the conference. When I walked back up the cabin from the bathroom, just about all the laptops I saw open displayed the logos of various drug companies. The woman next to me worked for a French company that handles pharma packaging (glass containers). Her name was Pascaline. I only mention her because I love the name.<\/p>\n

I read and listened to music for most of the flight. The guy across the aisle from me was reading, but he didn’t have any music. What he had was a book with the title, The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Woman, Work, and Sexual Desire<\/a>. I only mention this because of the title of chapter 16: “Women Are Not Liars.”<\/p>\n

Go figure. I read about half of that Portis novel, Gringos.<\/p>\n

The first day of the show’s done. There are a bunch of hospitality events going on; I’ve been invited to a couple of dinners and other get-togethers. This is usually a good opportunity to get wrecked on someone else’s dime, but I’m feeling pretty tired just now. I might just take the night off, scare up some room service, watch Monday Night Football, and get back to that novel.<\/p>\n

Or I’ll be table-dancing to Thunderstruck at a bar on the Riverwalk. I’ll letcha know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walking through the gate into the airport terminal, I realized that this is my 4th visit to San Antonio: 3 pharma conferences and 1 car wash industry event (I got my start on a magazine called Auto Laundry News). I’ve been through a bunch of airports large and small in the last 10 years. Sometimes … <\/p>\n

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