So just got back to where I can access my Kinja account. Unfortunately my row did fill, but I got lucky and the person next to me was a tiny woman, definitely under 5'0" who just slept. There were a probably ten or so empty seats, in the cabin, including one in the row in front of me.

Never skip leg day

I don’t leave for another 4 hours. Still good looking at the last time I checked the seat map.

I was at a Pearl Jam concert in one of those outdoor pavilion places with seats under a roof, and then a lawn area up on a hill. This venue had just installed regular hard plastic stadium seats on part of the lawn so they weren’t under the roof of the main shed, but you no longer had to sit on grass. So I’m standing…

To Have and Heave Not 

Yeah. It’s a route that got a downgrade in equipment from 747-400 to A330 since I booked it, so I’m hoping that’s a reflection of the route not being always packed. Eh, it’s a short flight (7 hours, which is short for me) and it’s on miles so endurable.

I was in a strip club once and the dancer explained that’s why she’d gotten a certain part of her anatomy pierced, and used a glow in the dark stud. “It’s like a lighthouse for my boyfriend.”

I’m flying to Germany tonight from the East Coast. Since it’s personal and not business, I’m in coach. Right now I’m the only person in my row. I’m praying that no more than one person selects a seat in that row between now and takeoff.

Burner checks out.

I’ve been in Latin America a few times during the NFL playoffs, and frankly I would watch Spanish language commentary of any sporting event over English anyday (I’m not fluent in Spanish).

One of the more interesting things to avoid pee-splatter I’ve seen is to have a discordant object in the urinal to use as a target. Some urinals have little plastic soccer balls you try to move around with your stream.

Absolutely. When I was in whichever grade I read it, the teacher tried to fuse reading and elections. The class was supposed to read a number of books, and then based on those books vote for specific categories.
I, being stupid, read all the books on the list. Most of my class just read the shortest book and voted for…

I’m having “Where the Red Fern Grows” flash backs.

There’s a reason Wade Bogg’s twitter handle is ChickenMan, and that’s not just because he got blown in Philly last night.

They probably would have left me behind on day one. Not because of endurance, but because I would have been talking only in “Ice Ice Baby” lyrics the entire time.

Yeah. You could probably use northern or western shoreline interchangeably.

Thank you kindly.

Otherwise, I will say the SNL skit is a pretty good exaggeration of basic Dunks stereotypes. The detail that killed me is when Affleck shows the coupon on the smaht phone with the busted screen. The number of times I’ve seen that in real life is high.

Bostonian here. It depends on the time of day. At my regular Dunks, it’s never more than 5 minutes, because most everyone who goes in are regulars, know what they want, and are moving along to get to work. When you go outside of peak morning rush, then it can get weird. Though my regular one is a 24-hour one and gets…

Both soccer and college football seem related because are so tribal in terms of fan attachment and fan response seems more visceral than other pro sports. Look at the reactions in Hamburg after it was relegated in the Bundesliga last week. People were throwing road flares and fireworks.

I travel internationally often. I never eat at McDonald’s here, but always seek out one meal at foreign McDonalds. (95% of the time I eat local while abroad.)