On the way to Seattle. Quite literally so since I'm sitting in the first row up in the nose of an A340 soaring between Norway and Iceland. It's a pity because they're killing the in-air Internet on these planes, and the service will disappear around the turn of the year. Connexion, the company that runs the service, said that they couldn't be profitable with their current business model- reminds me of a lot of great ideas that were kicking around California around 99 and 2000 that died because the VC funding dried up. But for now at least, it's fun to say hi to the world and catch up from above the tropopause, twelve thousand meters above the GIUK gap.
I am a lucky man. I scored business class tickets for this trip and they've remodeled my A340 (The Astrid Viking--Scandinavian only has seven A340s so I know most of them by name by now). So now we get full flatbeds in biz class, with heated back massage and the whole works. I sit here with a bloody mary in one hand and typing with the other as I stare out into the rose-pink sky--the same gentle blush color the sky's been for almost three hours, since we're chasing the sun at this speed and latitude.
I'm very mindful and grateful for this, I can tell you. Fox knows I don't deserve it.
Posted by case at October 17, 2006 06:50 PM