There's not enough bitching

[Arakawa]

Porter Airlines - Convenient Downtown-to-Downtown Travel!

Original schedule: departing 7:25 Chicago time to Toronto Island Airport.

Delayed due to bad weather: departing 8:40 to Toronto Island Airport.

Delayed due to delays: departing 9:40 to Toronto Pearson Airport (the actual huge airport on the outskirts of town).

Delayed due to crew change: now departing at 11:20pm and landing at Hamilton International Airport in fucking Hamilton, Ontario.

Colleague who recently moved from British Columbia: "Where is Hamilton anyway?"

Me: "sort of the western end of Lake Ontario. The airport itself is kind of southwest of Hamilton, above the Niagara escarpment."

Correction by a more knowledgeable local at the gate: "Hamilton airport is nowhere near fucking Hamilton."

Well, an exaggeration to some extent, but indeed, look at how far from the intended airport I'm ending up:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Hamilton+Airport,+Hamilton,+ON,+Canada&daddr=Toronto+Island+Airport,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&hl=en&ll=43.397065,-79.682465&spn=0.646604,0.918732&sll=43.441952,-79.650879&sspn=0.646125,0.918732&geocode=FW2ekgIdGGs8-yE8u22wQas6Yg%3BFXvEmQIdXYVE-yHr4SmBlprrVQ&oq=Hamilton+airport&mra=ls&t=m&z=10

In summary: Wut.

[Yuthirin]

Ah yes, our weather here has been delightful over the last day or so.

[Arakawa]

Wow, I never noticed there was a moving walkway in the terminal here!

Thank you, automated announcement system which says "moving walkway" every two seconds for no reason.

[Brian]

"No reason" being "safety concerns".

Not that I'm saying they're valid.  Symptomatic of everything needing so many safety labels and precautions it's annoying, because above all else, we must be protected from our own incompetence.

[Arakawa]

"No reason" being "safety concerns".

Not that I'm saying they're valid.  Symptomatic of everything needing so many safety labels and precautions it's annoying, because above all else, we must be protected from our own incompetence.

Let me put it this way -- once I noticed, it was only a couple of notches less annoying than the phone in the English dub of Pokemon that goes "RINGRINGRING RINGRINGRING... PHONE CALL!"

I think Chicago must somehow have a thing for pointless announcements. When on the El I heard the infamous "gambling and soliciting is prohibited on the Chicago L" announcement. Yeah... good to know.

[Yuthirin]

I think Chicago must somehow have a thing for pointless announcements. When on the El I heard the infamous "gambling and soliciting is prohibited on the Chicago L" announcement. Yeah... good to know.

Yeahhhh...that's...that's actually a thing. A real problem. Yeah.

[thepanda]

Wow, I never noticed there was a moving walkway in the terminal here!

Thank you, automated announcement system which says "moving walkway" every two seconds for no reason.

I think the blind might appreciate the heads-up. o_O

[Brian]

I am in a horrible mood today.

Starting off with the traditional e-mails about someone liking something that I wrote (that was not intended to be liked), to dealing with work ("Yeah, we know you're an engineer, but we know you worked in shipping and receiving, so could you do about seven hours of manual labor for us?") ... and g-mail.  G-mail, why?  Your new themes suck!

And then even more ME3 spoilers.  I should give myself points for getting this far....

[Grahf]

I am in a horrible mood today.

Starting off with the traditional e-mails about someone liking something that I wrote (that was not intended to be liked),

They just missed the point, or was it something sarcastic or scathing that they just read and interpreted on the surface level?

[Brian]

Meh, I just found depellebar depressing.  The fact that people look at my expression of futility and depression and say they enjoyed it....

It just makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong. :\

[Anastasia]

Nothing at all.

Different people, different strokes. You can't control what people like, nor can you assume that they'll look at it the same way you do.

[Brian]

Best not to dwell, probably.

[Anastasia]

Indeed. There are odd and odder people out there.

[Yuthirin]

My razor broke halfway through shaving my head.

[Brian]

Ow.  You didn't cut yourself, I hope?