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If you happen to be wondering how come so many posts just came out at once and why they're so retarded (ok especially retarded), the major reason is the fact that I'm sitting in the waiting area of the Akron-Canton airport (where the hell?!?) at 0300 in the morning waiting to find out at 0500 whether or not I'm even gonna have a flight outta here.

Long long story.

My travel group and I were supposed to come down here from Sandusky to catch a flight down to San Francisco to start the travelling portion of our time here in the States but somehow Murphy really caught up with us today and gave us a great big hiding. The day didn't start well already. Apple messed up my iPod order and I had to cancel it and DHL didn't manage to get their package to Cedar Point in time so someone else will have to settle it for me. Now it gets worse. The car that we were supposed to use to come to Akron-Canton got taken out by one of the shareholder's to go to Cincinatti the day before. The problem was, he decided not to come back!!!!!! Not anytime soon anyway. So we had to rush out and rent a car just to take us to the airport because cab fare was way more expensive than rental.

Then things started coming one after the other. The people in my travel group aren't exactly the most intiative of sorts and so everyone pretty much dilly dallied and they only left at 1pm when they were supposed to leave at 11am. Ordinarily that wouldn't be a problem but the car wouldn't fit everyone and their luggage in so we had to go in 2 waves. Worse, the airport was 2 hours away from Sandusky (NO thanks to hong jin peng) so we would need at least 6 hours to get everyone there. And the flight was at 6.53 pm!!! Basically we were screwed from the beginning. But thats not the end.

Nick realised we had a slim chance of making it there so he went and sped, going 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. Problem was, the cops didn't see it the same way as he did and not only did they cause a 30 + minute delay, the bunch of us are now facing a hefty traffic fine. First wave reaches and car turns around to grab 2nd wave of which I am part. We're fucking late and we know it. But more to come. The driver falls asleep at the wheel and manages to sideswipe the right side railing on the I-80 at 75 mph. Huge bang, car bounces off and keeps driving. We're lucky to be alive but the right side passenger door can't open anymore and the front right rim is broken in two. Have no idea how much thats gonna cost but its not going to be cheap thats for sure. All we can do is pray insurance will cover it.

1st wave try to stall the plane as far as possible but to no avail and we reach the airport to hear the final boarding call announcement but all the baggage and check in counters have already closed. The only thing I can thank God for is a helpful Air Tran clerk who's helped us arrange later flights to San Francisco that'll get us there by 8.40 pm tomorrow night. Now the bad news. So what else is new huh? Those flights are touch and go because we're on the standby list for whatever spare seats they have. We could jolly well not have a flight and be stranded here for days because we have no other place to go.

Lets just say I'm not real inclined to see the glass as half full right now...