As I was giving the hostel room the final check for any thing I might have left behind I realized that I'd left The Art of Programming Vol 2 at Dan's house. I then realized that inside of that was a couple hundred dollars that I'd stashed there along with my "eTicket". There really wasn't much I could do, the bus ride to San Sebastian was 4+ hours and 25 bucks both ways, I had to hope for the best.
Even more troublesome was the lack of a box for my bike, Dan had ridden over to meet me at the bus station and we'd trashed the box rather than try to haul it on the 10 minute bike ride to his apartment. It was already badly beaten from the airline and hauling it to the bus so it didn't seem like a big loss. The only problem was that I lagged getting a replacement for it in San Sebastion, in fact I didn't ever get around to it, we figured we'd have time in Madrid.
We were up and gone by 08:15, Lilly and Dan's bus left at 09:00 and I needed to be checked in for my plane around that time.
[reading the dune book]
When I checked in for my flight to Reno, they said they were looking for volunteers to take a later flight because they were over booked. I asked how much the credit was for and it turned out that they'd give you $200 and a dinner to take a flight 4 hours later. Since this trip was made possible by a $400 credit from a previous trip I called and left a message for Charles to pick me up later and signed up.
The meal ticket they'd given me was for $13, I was pretty supprised. In the past those meal tickets were for $7 or so, hardly enough to buy an airport sandwich.
I found my gate and wandered around in search of an electrical outlet to recharge my laptop. [talking with people in the slc airport.]
I saw this guy standing at the ticket counter that looked really familiar but I couldn't decide where I knew the face from. After I'd given up on it the guy next to me asked if I thought I'd recognize Larry Byrd if I saw him. I looked up and replied that if it wasn't him probably been mistaken for him enough that the novelty was gone. I later overheard the flight attendants saying that it wasn't him, apparently he few this flight weekly so they all had their "Larry" stories.
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