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seriously folks, if you have any chance of having to connect in atlanta, avoid it. avoid being around flights to atlanta, even if you’re not taking them. this flight to atlanta shown here was double-booking the gate that my flight to vancouver was supposed to leave from, causing my flight to vancouver to be late, letting me through customs 10 minutes after the last flight to victoria was leaving vancouver. yes i stayed over night in the airport because by the time the customs had been cleared, no one from united airlines was available and they were not answering their phones. i have written them a letter documenting the events.
oh by the way i will be posting more pics from the actual trip. just had to get this bit about atlanta off of my chest.

Lido Key is near Sarasota, which is near Tampa Bay.
lazy day today, going to go shopping soon. slept 12 hours last night!

stupid things:
guy at counter in victoria says “get your baggage when you get into vancouver because you’ll need to pass it through customs in vancouver.”
apparently security is pretty tight in victoria to vancouver flights now, even more so than vancouver to atlanta. figure that one out. in victoria i had to take off a lot more than what i am used to. the girl kept on asking me to take things off so i blurted out “want me to take off my t-shirt too?” and then i smirked. i was pretty uncomfortable and i thought that it was getting ridiculous so i had to say something. she blushed a bit and that was it, i was through.
i arrive in vancouver.
i ask the dude at the baggage counter where my baggage is because it isn’t showing up and he says “it’s coming.”
*waits 1 hour for baggage in vancouver*
again, i ask the dude at the baggage counter where my baggage is and he says “err you been waiting a while. uhh lemme check your piece o paper that tells me everything. oh here go through international customs and then it’ll be on your left.”
*does that*
*sees no baggage, asks*
i am told that there is no baggage there. i am lead through the international customs in reverse and i find air canada so that they can attempt to clear up the situation. they say that my baggage is going straight through to atlanta and that i can clear it there before going to tampa bay.
ooooookay!
did you know that milestones in the vancouver international airport is only open until 9 pm? did you care? no. but when your red eye flight to atlanta has no in-flight meal, you are probably interested in eating before you do not eat for several hours. luckily i was able to slip in under the wire and eat a fantastic steak with veggies. mmm it was good. i have some granola bars just in case i should get hungry in atlanta, but red meat takes forever to digest so i should be alright.
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okay let me tell you about atlanta, holy what a boondoggle this was. i got in with 1.5 hours to do the get baggage, transfer baggage, go through customs, go through security, get boarding pass, enter plane.
atlanta has to be the worst airport I’ve ever been in. big long lineups for everything. even at 6 in the morning.. it was nuts. i almost missed my flight because their domestic inspection (which, again, was a joke) took forever. nobody working there really seemed to care either. then i was selected for a “random” search at customs (who are they kidding with the word random?). that took more time out of the equation and after this i had to take a train all the way across the airport (it’s huge) to get to my plane. so i did that and ran to my gate with 4 minutes before departure. yeah that’s right, 4 minutes at full throttle. what a horrid airport. lucky for me delta/atlanta is a boondoggle in all regards and the flight had been delayed by 40 minutes.
i made a new friend! we had some interesting discussions. her name is gloria and she’s from anchorage alaska and could tell where i was from by my “accent.” sure aboot that eh!?
so i am in sarasota, florida now and it’s pretty sweet. instead of leaving the windows open to heat up the neighbourhood, you leave windows open to warm the place up. yeah it’s warm here and it always blows my mind that when i step outside, it’s warmer. my first thought is that the building i stepped out of is radiating heat. and then it doesn’t go away. and it’s all “nice, i like!”
i didn’t sleep all night and now i am drinking coffee. krishen has the same computer and monitor set up as me, and also the same chair, but not the same desk. my desk is better. haha. ok it turns out that it is the same desk but different configuration. but he has an isight and his computer isn’t overheating and it’s faster than mine by a bit now with his most recent upgrade so i am a bit jealous. shut up!
we’re going to go check out the town and see what is cool there. paint the town rad.
ps: my mom does not approve of the language in this post.

and the award for most remarkably out of touch marketing campaign this week goes to:
milk who has put out this 30 second commercial. I saw it slotted in during The Daily Show with Jon Stuart. tonight. okay watch it before reading any further.
yes that’s right, you get four (?) girls singing about how urban milk can truly be with a hillbilly DJ raising the roof and farmer jed doing flips over a cow. the death-ray of misappropriated popular culture hits in full force when they drop the URL at the end: www.milkhiphop.ca!!!!
this is not hip hop. including a DJ and someone breakdancing, also not hiphop. getting girls in the video singing, you got it, still not hip hop. and they’re not even joking.
this marketing campaign falls under the “tragically unaware” category along with that vonage commercial i was talking about yesterday. who-ever fesses up to this (i couldn’t find a link to any parent company on the site) will get an extra big gold star from me. i promise.

my next DJ gig is thursday, february the 9th at Hush. it is a fundraiser for the open door society of victoria. come support a good cause and enjoy great music simultaneously! i’ll be doing the warm up set as i don’t get to do that too often and i quite enjoy music of a different gear.
my january 28th date @ the legendary Lush has been switched to February 18th .. so mark that down on your calendars folks, it will be rip roarin massive tracks and guaranteed good times.

got a few more things to do on this site in terms of CSS and such. tweaks and whatnot. i love being my own client. it’s pretty satisfying.
myself and nathan started a new track last night and it was madness. can’t say too much yet. but i really like it.
was going to book my flight to florida today but that didn’t work out. will have to do that next weekend. perhaps will book the calgary trip right now. what is peak season for flying? i figured it was summer and winter and that was it. am i missing something? is it holiday related a well?
i was discussing our political options with my coworkers. i saw the debate this week past and it was pathetic. i am looking for a leader that can represent canada with spine and intelligence. unfortunately to get elected in this country it seems like you have to play for one of two teams, and what you have to say is not quite as important as what those players on those teams think of you personally. to make it to those teams you gotta be elected, but the democracy seems to end there. the only leader that displayed any spine was that of the bloc quebequois, but i think that may have been because it was an all english debate and his party doesn’t run except for in french speaking regions (quebec). don’t get me wrong, i am going to vote. but i don’t think i can rely on debates to provide any insight whatsoever, as one only needs to watch the show for 2 minutes to realize that these guys are simply slagging eachother down, denying and cross-slagging. what a waste! i have more homework to do before making any decision.
i’m going to go see braeden DJ at hush tonight and beyond that the weekend is meant only for relaxing. ciao.

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