{"id":8440,"date":"2005-11-16T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/11\/16\/dave-hill-international-man-of-mystery-in.html"},"modified":"2005-11-16T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:18:55","slug":"dave_hill_inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/dave_hill_inter.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hill, International Man of Mystery, in …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spy Who Took All My Parking Spaces!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Note to self: When all the signs and signals leading into the airport say, “FULL! FULL! ALL FULL! USE SHUTTLE LOTS!” there may actually be some reason to believe them.<\/p>\n

But I was late getting htere, and adding 30+ minutes to the trip (on either end) sounded very unappealing. So I cruised around through the parking structures for 15 instead, trying to find anything, and failing.<\/p>\n

Finally chose valet parking, bevcause I was out of time. Yikes!<\/p>\n

On the bright side, having now mysteroiusly morphed into a Premier passenger, I was able to (a) skip into the short line at the security checkpoint, (b) board first, and (c) get a free Economy Plus “upgrade.” None of which was to sneeze at.<\/p>\n

The flight was only a third full, so I was able to spread out across three seats, and sit in the middle to use the computer (with nobody in front of me to lean back …)<\/p>\n

We were delayed by 40-odd minutes taking off because of ice on the bottom of the plane, freezing up “water” lines (which we knew had been solved when the stewardess was able to flush the toilet in the head). We made up about 15 minutes of that time in-flight (I spent the flight finishing my next StoryBall assignment), and then …<\/p>\n

Well, then, I got to drive the freeways of SoCal, yippee-skippee. The EverLost system on the Hertz car (a very zippy little Hundai) suggested a variation on a theme — 105-110-5-2-138-210 — but I stuck with the 105-605-210 plan. The Century was, even at 7:30, quite slow, making my 40 mile trip take more like an hour and a half.<\/p>\n

So I was not in a good mood by the time I finally figured out where the heck the Hampton Inn was in Arcadia. It’s all in that Restaurant Row area on Huntington, just west\/south of the 210. A couple dozen big name chain restaurants, and a lot of hotels all tucked behind them with tiny signs on the street.<\/p>\n

By that time it was going on 9, and I was Ravenous (in reality), so I skipped any sort of computer stuff for the evening, grabbed some dinner, read and watched a little TV, and hit the sack.<\/p>\n

Very busy day today, and tomorrow. so unknown what sort of posting may go on. But if it does — well, y’all will be the first to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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