It's April Fools Day!

I deem it appropriate that the first day of the Spring Quarter of school falls on April Fools Day. Also I find it appropriate that we turn back our clocks one hour on April Fools Day, mostly because I am having enough trouble adjusting back to central time, now we are going to go mess with it some more!

Coming back from China every flight was delayed. The first two hours, the second four hours. Now I have said before I don't know much about the inner workings of the airline industry, but come on, how hard is it to get a plane off the ground at the time you say you are going to get it off the ground. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me. Obviously I am wrong because not a single airline can get it right. By the way, I was flying United this time. So I have this theory that since none of the airlines are actually good at what they do, and that it takes an incredible amount of capital to get an airline up and running that not a single airline in the business has any motivation to improve their incredibly poor performance and thus I will have to just grin and bear it.

But I have a question for all my friends who travel a great deal for work...How much extra would you pay to be guaranteed a flight you are booked on would leave on time?

See when I got into Chicago, but some freak coincidence, I ran into my friend Jeff in the Red Carpet club for United. Jeff is the friend I stay with on Friday nights in Chicago...So truly this was a freak occurrence. Especially since I haven't flown United in a couple of years. Last night, I stayed at his house. Guess who wasn't here...Jeff! Stuck in LA at the airport. So he missed an evening with his wife and kids when he travels more than I do. I would think for a traveler like him, this would be an ideal expenditure to be assure getting home for the weekend. Someone out there with more capital than I will have to put that theory to the test.

Ok, it is 8:04 here and I am off to school! Dolce Beijos!