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Sunday, 18 April 2004
On the dot and unprepared ::
Between doing laundry, packing, and making sure I had enough MIDI tracks bounced to audio for recording with Peter, I let myself leave for SFO later than I should have Friday morning. V works at a hotel near the airport, so I parked there, waited while she took care of a couple of customers before her lunch break, got in her car, accepted a portion of her lunch, and not wanting to eat and run, took another five minutes to sit and talk, even though I was anxious about the time—less than an hour before departure. When we got to United’s curbside checkin, the skycap said “wow!” and shook his head at the screen twice—I’d arrived precisely 45 minutes before takeoff, the cutoff time. Fortunately there was no line there or at security and I got on the plane with plenty of time to spare. ...