What does this place have against me???
Posted in Uncategorized by RB on December 2nd, 2007 I’ve had great luck on my flights from Atlanta to Honolulu. The first time I had a bulkhead seat and sat next to a disgruntled platinum medallion member who had countless free drink coupons to hand out. This time one of the flight attendants happened to be my neighbor, so I basically had all I could drink on the way out and was presented with even more on my way out of the plane. But once I got here things started to go downhill.
As I was unpacking last night I realized that I left the power supply to my laptop at home. As it turns out, the super powerful, extra special HP/Compaq 8510 laptop that my company ordered to replace my Thinkpad also requires a super special and very powerful power supply. I found this out after driving all over the island looking for something to power my pc. Despite the fact that I was enjoying the tropical rain, I decided to head out to try more stores, and that’s when I found out that I left the lights on. What kind of company rents cars that don’t automatically turn off the lights??? And since when did Chevy start building cars that won’t let go of the keys when the battery is drained???
I wasted an hour and a half waiting for a jumpstart, and as soon asI pulled out of the deck I knew something was wrong. As I drove around trying to charge the battery, something wasn’t right - the transmission just felt completely wrong. So it was back to the airport to swap cars, and that led me into construction traffic on H1. Five miles an hour would have been fast on the H1 today.
Let’s hope that the rest of this trip is an improvement, because so far things on island haven’t gone that great.
The one good thing is that LSU made its way into the Championship game. My relationships out here have made me interested in Hawaii football anyway, but now I can enthusiastically say Go Warriors and to Hell with Georgia!!!
