T-minus 18 hours and 37 minutes

I think it’s pretty damn cool that my 100th post here at the Quad City Reporter is also the last post I’ll make before leaving for Europe.
So here we are. I’m starting this entry at 12:38 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. That is exactly 18 hours and 37 minutes before my plane is scheduled [...]

T-minus 8 days

It’s beginning to hit me that in almost exactly 8 days, my plane (if everything runs on time) will be pushing back from a gate at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to whisk me across the Atlantic Ocean to Dublin. From there, I’ll catch another plane to fly me to London’s Heathrow Airport.
One of the [...]

Virtual insanity is what we’re living in

I think it’s time the government just told us that in order to get on a plane, we need to go through security naked. I think it’s the logical next step.
Come fall at some American airports – specifically O’Hare in Chicago, passengers will have to go through a machine that puts them through a virtual [...]