For real this time

The trip has started off with a bang. After getting up at 4am, getting a ride to the airport from my dad, and forgetting my breakfast in the car, I rolled up to the self checkin kiosk at the Delta counter. I entered all the appropriate information and instead of getting my itinerary I received the message, "good news, I found your travel records but don't want to give you your tickets so go stand in that long line full of angry people with dogs, snowboards, and broken dreams."
-thanks douche machine
Not to worry, as suggested by my mom, I had arrived a full 2hours early so I had plenty of time to be jerked around. 40min later and the line jumping of a rather obnoxious Hispanic family (started as 2 girls but grew to all 9 family members) it was my turn. "good morning" I said, "that wonderful machine has given us the opportunity to get to know one another."
John went straight to work on finding a solution to the mysterious shunning by the machine. "when will you be returning?" John said
"ummm, I'm not"
"that won't do. The system thinks you are a terrorist. You have to book a return flight or they won't let you in the country. I suggest you walk away from the counter and go book a flight online."
"No thanks John. I think I'll stay here and book my flight with you since we are becoming such close friends."
23min later I was rocking through security with my phantom flight itinerary in hand, found my gate and a seat close to the door. At the very moment they started to pre-board, one of the 2 Hispanic girls decided to try and let some of her family in the emergency exit door... Alarms sounded and TSA was all over. They cornered her by the WIFI/charging hub and asked if anyone had actually seen her try and open the door. Everyone looked away like they had just been told we were all getting strip searched. I raised my hand, "yeah, I saw her" (and she cut in line).
I boarded my plane after informing them that no one had entered or left the waiting area. I hope the rest of my trip is more low key.

Mathew

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Location:World Way,Los Angeles,United States

Holy cow, this team is awesome. Last Friday was our team party and it was fairly epic. Everyone brought their party hats, and we danced the night away. We had some sort of VIP room booked with amazing food, drink, and music of all genres. Once we closed that place down I somehow ended up in a taxi with a few others to meet Joseph at a club where we continued to dance and drink champaign to celebrate the team, and as it turned out, his birthday. cheers.

Move'n on up

It seems that buildings are going up all over the place here. My week back has been full of laughs with my new team, as well as late nights. There is so much work to be done and I find it a little hard at times not to be overwhelmed. I met my new account partner who is this delightful little badass chick who tells us how nice she is and in the same breath threatens to kill us.

This morning I went to look at apartments. The first one I saw was 70% open air... Top floor, 8th, with the kitchen and living room both outside on a balcony/terrace. Very strange and at the same time completely awesome! I want to check out a few more apartments since the bedroom in this place was smaller than the bathroom, also partially open air... Go figure


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Location:Esplanade Dr,,Singapore