{"id":4423,"date":"2004-05-07T20:49:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T03:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:05:31","slug":"flying-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2004\/05\/07\/flying-to-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying to Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-4423\">\n<p>I brought only two books for this trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Serendipities-Language-Lunacy-Umberto-Eco\/dp\/0156007517%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0156007517\">Serendipities: Language and Lunacy<\/a><\/span> by Umberto Eco, and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Opening-Skinners-Box-Psychological-Experiments\/dp\/0747563179%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0747563179\">Opening Skinner&#8217;s Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century<\/a> by Lauren Slater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We left way too early for the airport; security wasn&#8217;t a big deal. We&#8217;re flying    Aer Lingus on the trip out. We had to check our carry-on bags &#8211; apparently European    airlines have lower weight constraints than US carriers. And, we sat on the    plane, an Airbus 330, for over an hour pulled back from the gate because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they had to take bags off the plane for some transfers that didn&#8217;t show      up, and<\/li>\n<li>weather north of O&#8217;Hare was dicy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aviva and I are crammed in like sardines &#8211; the seats are smaller than US carrier    seats. And my laptop travel battery appears to not be working again (won&#8217;t be    a problem on the way home &#8211; there&#8217;s power at the seat on the return trip).<\/p>\n<p>But, we&#8217;re on our way to Dublin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-4423\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 4423);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-4423\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-4423\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought only two books for this trip: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco, and Opening Skinner&#8217;s Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century by Lauren Slater. We left way too early for the airport; security wasn&#8217;t a big deal. We&#8217;re flying Aer Lingus on the trip out. 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