We left Reno on 1/27/2001 at the unreasonable hour of 6am. My dad hears "6am at the airport" and it translates to 5am. I'd have no problem with it if it didn't mean that I had to get up with him at 4am.
After about 5 hours on the plane I broke down and got out the laptop. If I can't charge the battery I'll be screwed but I'd I think that's a small chance and I'd really like to get the database squared away.
The flight from SFO to SEO (I believe that's the airport code for Seoul) is 5500 miles and 12 hours. The only book I brought is Donald Knuth's Art of Programming vol 1, it was a deliberate choice, on past trips I've taken a book that was too entertaining I'll be too into it to pay attention to the trip. It's a good book though I'm getting a lot out of it.
On a 12 hour flight they play all kinds of crap on the TVs, I made the mistake of sitting through the movie Beautiful because it had Minnie Driver and that chick who played Finger Cuffs in Chasing Amy, I should know better by now. I did get to see a bunch of Korean pop music videos. I was enjoying them, just your standard poppy-eurodanceish-songs. Then they started singing in English, there's no such thing as good lyrics in a pop song I don't care what language it's in.
We land in Korea in about two hours then we get on a plane to Bangkok, as of yet it hasn't hit me that I'm going to Asia.
I'm sitting in the airport in Seoul watching a games show that some how involves telling which of two items is real and which is fake. What's cool is that the people are completely dressed up, men in tuxes and women in fancy dresses. The first round they were trying to spot fake ginseng, then it seems like they went into a kitchen and made something with it? I'm still not sure.
There was a second movie on the plane, it was a Korean film called Just Do It. I was very impressed, a nice dark comedy about insurance fraud leading to killing relatives, good indie feel to it.
Just updated the clock on my computer so the time stamps should now be on local time.
Because I've got one point of failure I'm a little worried. If the power converted I bought doesn't work doing this "digital journal" is going to be rough, I'll have to save the battery for downloading pictures from my camera.
I guess technically it's day three now but since we merged day one and two traveling, I'm going to make it clear that since it's after midnight it's day 3.
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