Heading Home

I'm sitting on flight NW71 headed for Nagoya, Japan then on home to Manila. It's going to be about 16 hours on the plane, plus a couple more layover in Japan. I'm just glad to be headed home. Overall, y trip was ok work was good, meet and greet was good, got to spend some (ok, more than I planned) cash on things you can't get at home, and I got to meet a couple of BGG people as has been my custom ever since I started travelling again

Still, I'm glad to be going home. I miss Chris something fierce, and I'm sick of the scourge of jet lag. My world needs to return to normalcy, and my work is in shambles right now.

Amazingly, I'm off to Tagaytay on work for 2.5 days on Thursday, and then I'm off to Hong Kong for the MF1 training program on Sunday.

After all these crazy travel days, I'm really going to have to make it up to Chris. And to myself. Burnout's gonna be just around the corner if I don't apply the brakes really soon.

Lindbergh Terminal Councourse C

I'm sitting here and having coffee. I never really got to see MSP last time. NWA's northern hub is huge - it took me a good 15 to 20 minutes to walk to gate C15 from the G gates where we landed.

Homeland Security isn't as bad as the news makes it out to be, but it could be that things are now relaxed as 9/11 gets farther in the rearview mirror.

It's clearly cold out there, around 10 to 15 degrees, but I think I'll survive in a sweater.

Walking by the first bookshop I passed, I spotted a new Lencioni. Turf wars. Joy! Right on time. Bought it ($25) of course.

The flight itself wasn't too bad. Still uncomfortable, but business class makes a huge difference. The seat actually stretches all the way out, albeit at an angle. Still didn't get any real sleep, and my system is telling me to fuck off because it's 1 am. Fighting back with lots of coffee. Will try to crash the system around 6pm in the hopes of being able to get up early "tomorrow". Whoever created time zones - I hate you at the moment.