Snake! On a Plane!

[kaasirpent]

[Friends-locked for soon-to-become-obvious reasons.] [Revoked after it became unnecessary.]

I've been waiting for more than a month to make this post, and to use that userpic. The best humor is a long time in the making.

I'll be flying from Atlanta to Boston, this afternoon, where I will be met by ian_smith and ddreslough, and then we'll all have dinner, then head back to where they live in Connecticut. I will be spending the holiday weekend (Memorial Day, for those not in the US or simply out of the loop) with those two and ddreslough's husband invisible_mouth and their daughter. And various cats, chickens, and other livestock. :)

I'll be non-posty during that time, probably. And unless the muse (Thalia, probably) moves me, this will be the last post for today. Perhaps one of them will post about my visit while I'm actually up there. And hopefully, it will not start with, "Ugh! I can't believe what a bastard that Kaa is!" :)

But you have to admit, I couldn't--simply could not--pass up a chance to use this userpic.

I'm sure that, by the time I'm back Monday evening, I will more than happily paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson's pre-famous line, "I've had it with this motherfuckin' snake on these motherfuckin' planes!" :) I dislike the experience of flying. I don't mind the flying itself. It's all the shit that comes with it that I hate. The endless hours of waiting. The cramped seating. The noisy kid that somehow always ends up seated right behind or in front of me. The ear problems. The useless little snacks.

Oh, and I decided to get myself a little belated birthday gift, last night, to help alleviate some of the boredom that also comes with flying. Went to Fry's on the way home from work. I've got it loaded with five audiobooks and about 5 days' worth of music. I even own most of it. :) Now I'm one of you. You may commence with the gloating. *sigh* Go ahead, I know you want to. A snake can only resist temptation for so long. [Made a funny, I did!]

Comments

[jadefu.livejournal.com]

J is home this weekend, we should all totally get together! I keep telling D that we need to see the chickens, and then crap comes up on the weekends that prevents it.

We're up for an Impromptu BBQ!

[ddreslough.livejournal.com]

If Kaa is... :)

Kaapalooza 2006! Electric Boogaloo?

[ex-prunesnp.livejournal.com]

YOU are going to BOSTON and you didn't even TELL people?

I think you may be dead to me.

[siercia]

Amen and amen.

D.E.A.D.

[kaasirpent]

The airport only, and with someone else driving. :)

[ex-prunesnp.livejournal.com]

I don't care! DEAD. D. E. A. D.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

You realize, Kaa, that you can never come to Boston again, or Pru and Siercia will track you down and kill you. Tsk.

[telleestmavie.livejournal.com]

The image won't load on the belated birthday gift, but by the image title I'm assuming you finally FINALLY got an iPod. Welcome to the 21st, my friend. :) I can almost guarantee you'll soon question how you lived without it. (I accidentally left mine at home today, and I'm practically in DTs.)

Did you get the black or the white? And did you get the FM transmitter? If not, do...it's the best best best. :)

[kaasirpent]

White, nano, 4G, no FM transmitter, but my car has an Aux port for it. :) Tonight will be my initial test of it. I'll be putting every book on tape that will fit onto the thing and...no more flipping CDs! :)

[haloumi.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm on a plane. It's like being in a trouser press except that I've paid up to $3000 to be folded into this trouser press, the press has been used on someone else's trousers and they had an addiction to unwashed lentils and there are 400 trousers presses stacked around me and every so often someone decides that it would be a good idea to try and serve us reheated nasty in nasty sauce and then play us a movie with all the good bits taken out.

[kaasirpent]

You forgot the bit where the nearby presses are all too big for the space where they're stacked, so they overlap your space.