Monday, October 31, 2011

Accidentally in Chicago for a day


Not accidentally like my friend Amirali, who was too drunk to get on the right plane (flew from SanFran to Denver instead of LAX...woops - although you can't fault him as much as the airline crew that let him on the wrong plane without a boarding pass - especially since he looks like a terrorist).

No, my plane out of LAX was late because the autopilot wasn't working (lazy pilots - I drive my car without cruise control all the time) so I missed my connection to Dublin.  Ended up in Chicago for a night and a day.  Bummed about losing time with Oliver and missing trick-or-treating, but made the most of it.  Airline put me in a decent hotel and picked up my meals, but I have no baggage (hopefully it turns up in Dublin when I do).  Took a train into downtown, checked out Millennium Park.  Definitely a beautiful city - good mix of old and new architecture, and clean.  And lots of hot girls!  Go Chicago!  Also, not sure if this is common, but saw 3 different people from my train hours later while I was wandering around the city.  Could this place be that small??

Monday, October 17, 2011

Life in a Box

Packed up everything I own over the weekend and stuffed it into a 10x10 storage unit on Sepulveda.  Strange sight, seeing all your stuff crammed into a little dark room.  There it is - just waiting for you to come back.  Go have fun, I'll be here waiting.  Don't forget to pay the bill so they don't auction me off on bad cable TV...  And there's your life, in a box.  Well, in a lot of little boxes piled up inside a big box, which is really just a couple of flimsy walls separating your stuff from somebody else's.

Ahh, but you can see through this.  That's not your life, Eric.  It's just your stuff.  Life is so much MORE than that.   Well, yeah, kinda...  How's the saying go?  "The things you own..."