Tuesday
4:30 p.m. Arrive at JFK. My flight is delayed half an hour to 6:30. No biggie.
4:45 p.m. American Airlines ticket counter. Somehow, I don't have a ticket. They tell me there's something wrong with my credit card and my address. I tell them I'm a computer scientist and that their website/backend is a P.O.S. so fix it. I get a ticket.
6:00 p.m. Flight status goes from taking off at 6:30 to N/A. Hmm ...
6:15 p.m. Gate attendant tells us our plane is late. Should land in the next half hour.
6:45 p.m. Plane lands. All good, should board soon ...
7:15 p.m. except that for some reason, our plane disappeared. Pilot/crew are here, no one knows where the plane went. Apparently maintenance took it for a spin.
7:45 p.m. They tell us they have no idea where the plane is, but that the maintenance crew is "taking it for a spin to make sure it's OK to fly." This is very disconcerting to me. Who cares if it works on the ground? That's not the important part.
8:15 p.m. We finally board. Hooray!
8:30 p.m. All set to push out to the runway! EXCEPT, the ground crew has left us at the gate, with no one to actually push us off. So we have to wait 20 minutes for a crew.
8:50 p.m. Push off, go queue to take off.
9:00 p.m. Next in line to take off, the pilot says! ...
9:01 p.m. Pilot announces that WE'VE LEFT A CART OF LUGGAGE ON THE RUNWAY BACK BY THE GATE. So we have to turn around and get it. AND since we've been on the runway for so long, we have to refuel. Will take another 30 minutes. SAD FACE.
10:00 p.m. Finally take off.
Wednesday
1:00 a.m. We land at SFO. I'm pretty loopy. Feeling very Hunter S Thompson. I had a lot of caffeine earlier, so that's having weird effects now.
1:15 a.m. Get to the Hertz counter. Guess what? THEY DON'T HAVE MY RESERVATION. But whatever, they have a million cars, we sort it out.
1:20 a.m. I start driving to MTV, in the AWFUL rain. Really slow-going, the wind does not mix well with my tiny car.
1:55 a.m. Take my exit. All good. Except ...
2:05 a.m. I am not paying attention and I go the wrong way for several miles.
2:15 a.m. I finally get to the the hotel. And I crash.
Thursday
7:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel. There's only a one-night stay on the bill. They tell me that the room clock turns over at 2 a.m., so technically I only had a one-night stay. Oh joy! Something good happened!
3:00 p.m. Great day. Got a lot done, getting ready for my second round of presentation. All's good. You know, I should check my flight status just in case ...
3:01 p.m. BECAUSE I BOOKED MY RETURN FLIGHT IN MARCH. ALASKA AIRLINES WEBSITE FAIL PART 2.
3:05 p.m. Rebook for Friday morning. HOPING this is the last of my troubles. We shall see ...
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