.: What’s Bruin :.

San Diego Airport: What a crazy week this has been. I don’t even feel like I’m on vacation, even though I’m waiting for a plane that will take us to Atlanta, and then on to Zurich, Switzerland.

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind tornado. First the hard drive on my MacBook crashed a little over two weeks ago… and I had no backup of some very important data. Attempts to recover the lost data were unsuccessful since the drive was physically damager beyond recovery. On that hard drive was all the work from my current Master’s degree in progress and the past year’s finances and spreadsheets.

Needless to say that was very stressful on top of my already full work week. Replacing the hard drive and reinstalling the software was my second top priority behind working out at the gym. I finally got my financial records in a state that is usable. But after this trip, I need to rebuild all the documentation for 2007 income taxes.

I didn’t even pack until after midnight today, as I spent three hours uploading photos for work to our photo repository. I forgot how long it takes to upload.

Maria and I saw three people that we knew at the airport. I saw Gary Jacobs waiting for his order at McDonalds and was immediately reminded of the nightmare of working at the really crappy school called High Tech High. We also ran into our friend David Drinkwater who was flying out of town on business. And then Maria saw her friend, Pam, from work who was on the same flight as us to Atlanta.

Delta Flight 12 to Atlanta: I’m pretty exhausted right now from not sleeping last night. This flight is about four hours long and I did take a short nap at the beginning o the flight, but the seats are uncomfortable on my tailbone.

I’m starting to look forward to this trip now finally. No worries from work. School can wait since there are no set deadlines for my school projects, which allows me time to catch up due my hard drive failure.

This is the first trip where I checked two bags and Maria only checked one. I have one bag devoted just for work out clothing and tennis. My 10-year old nephew wants to play tennis. Since it will be freezing cold, we’ll have to play indoors. I have not played on an indoor court before so I’m looking forward to doing that for the first time. I’m curious about what my daily exercise routine will be. I am afraid of gaining weight / fat back. But during the trip, I hope to do my ab routine daily and jump rope to burn some calories. Unfortunately, I won’t have access to a gym so there won’t be any weight lifting.

Delta Flight 66 to Zurich: Exhausted most definitely. Hungry for sure. Had to connect our connecting flight to Zurich right away at another concourse. The Atlanta Airport is gigantic. I heard someone say it’s the largest in the world. So it required a train ride to our connecting departure gate. We boarded the plane right away, so no time to get a bite to eat. Then our flight was delayed two hours because the altitude meter (altimeter?) was damaged and needed to be replaced. Tried to catch some sleep while waiting to take off. Airplane flights are very boring. This nine-hour one was no exception. I didn’t feel like reading anything or watching either of the on-flight movies. So there wasn’t much to do except try to get some sleep. Slept in fits and bits only. Airline food… yum yum. Just kidding.

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