{"id":1197,"date":"2006-11-08T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/travels-travails\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:31:30","slug":"travels-travails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/travels-travails","title":{"rendered":"Travels &#038; travails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got to the airport yesterday, I found that the earlier flight to Newark was running late, and that mine would also get pushed off a bit. So I switched planes, got stuck with a middle seat, and made it home an hour before I was scheduled to get back.<\/p>\n<p>This helped because I had no idea on which floor of the parking garage I&#8217;d left my car. I did remember the general area I parked, recalling that I&#8217;d pulled up next to a Chrysler 300, so I could check it out before heading over to the monorail. But as I got into the parking garage elevator yesterday, I asked myself, &#8220;What floor was that?&#8221; And I had no adequate answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>So I started on the second floor, and eventually found my Element of Style up on the fourth floor. Travel days that began at 5:30am are not good. That&#8217;s yer official Virtual Memories advice for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got to the airport yesterday, I found that the earlier flight to Newark was running late, and that mine would also get pushed off a bit. So I switched planes, got stuck with a middle seat, and made it home an hour before I was scheduled to get back. This helped because I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/travels-travails\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Travels &#038; travails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-jj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":731,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-almost-kissed-the-floor-of-the-jetway","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"I almost kissed the floor of the jetway","author":"Gil","date":"November 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The flight was insanely arduous. Delayed at the gate (plane couldn't make it out of Newark for a while, due to weather). Delayed on the tarmac (landing windows weren't available in Newark). Stacked in a holding pattern in awful crosswinds (hint: don't put small, light airplanes in holding patterns during\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4169,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lakewalk","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":1},"title":"Lakewalk","author":"Gil","date":"July 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent a chunk of the morning working on the garage. After clearing out a 40-year-old worktable, I discovered that it was over a square foot of extremely sticky, viscous grease-oil sludge, with decades worth of junk (nails, can lids, lightbulbs, etc.) trapped in it. 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