from the twisted minds of snm
So I find myself around 1300 miles short of attaining premier status on united. This would be highly advantageous for future travel because of the waived baggage fees. United won’t give me or sell me those eqm’s so I need to fly them on the cheap.
So what I have here is a pretty whack plan.
HNL-LAX 2139 0511
LAX-SFO 0640 0805
SFO-HNL 0849 1205
BUT it was cheap and should save me at least the amount of the ticket in baggage fees.
Saw a bone-stock Honda Civic EX (well bone-stock except the illegally-dark tinted windows – so dark the driver had to roll down his window to see) with a “Type R” badge. Oh, yeah, I’m sure a Type R has that tailpipe that a roll of quarters would get stuck in, and those steel wheels with plastic covers! Sorry, buddy – you’re not fooling anybody. I do believe what the Phillippines flag sticker is supposed to be telling me though…
(0)What’s up with people today? I saw two drivers on two seperate occasions purposely running the red light – not like gassing it thru a stale yellow and being caught in the intersection on a red: It’s slowing down at a fresh red, seeing that the perpendicular traffic hasn’t started moving yet, and purposely entering the intersection on the red! One was a white Dodge Durango minivan (no, it’s not an SUV – tell me the last time you saw one off-road!) from the left-turn-lane into Nalani’eha from Like Like Southbound, and the other one was a white Honda Civic coupe at the top of the Northbound Ka Uka off-ramp from the H2.
(0)So yet again the fire alarm has gone off at our accommodations. There are a bunch of unhappy cold people mulling about.
Everytime this seems to happen.Â
Not like I could go snowboarding today anyway, but seeing as there is 3 to 6cm of snow in town, it must be off-the-hook at Kokusai! I’m so salty about the deletion of the early season weekday buses, that I don’t want to even go look at the webcams until I’m back in The States. I don’t need the aggrivation!
(0)So we were riding the meadows under Franz’s chair in the 19cm of new overnight snow and overheard this conversation:
“I hate you!”
“Powder sucks!
“This is the worst run ever!”
So while eating dinner at Sachi Sushi in Whistler, we overhear a nearby table taking pictures, culminating in a call for “Asian Face”. Â WTF is Asian Face anyways? Â FTP!
Went by the theaters in Sapporo Factory last night to see The Expendables. People in The USA can’t complain about ticket prices hitting the $10 USD, as admission in Japan is 1800-yen! That’s over $21.50 USD at today’s exchange rate! F me running! I don’t know if being able to get a Sapporo Classic draft beer for 600-yen, or a large size for 800-yen makes up for it. Being able to hit Taj Mahal afterwards for some Brinjal Bharta and Chana Masala did though!
So here we are having gone around the airport one lap. Apparently they overloaded the plane and some people and their stuff need to get off.
Just swell. At least the seats don’t totally suck.
Well, I guess since I have no means of getting to the snow during this early part of the season, I’ll be downing brews when I’m not out hiking. Enjoy the beer reviews! For Hawaii readers, many of these JDM production beers and jibiiru are available at Marukai, Liquor Collection, or Don Quijote – check it out.
At least Root and Fabio will be ripping fresh lines in Whistler this American Thanksgiving!