{"id":11356,"date":"2008-08-07T01:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/08\/07\/11356.html"},"modified":"2008-08-07T01:34:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T08:34:49","slug":"things-to-do-in-denver-with-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/08\/07\/things-to-do-in-denver-with-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do in Denver with no head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Or at least with no brain.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the weather report for Denver last night and saw that there were going to be thunderstorms today. \"So much for my flight being on time,\" thought I.<\/p>\n<p>I checked this morning and the flight was on time, but half an hour later I got an automated call telling me it was delayed by half an hour. Went to the airport. Flight was delayed another half-hour. Then another hour. The 5:00 flight finally left at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The flight itself was uneventful, except for some turbulence and the part where my airport-purchased chicken caesar sandwich spilled caesar salad dressing onto my copy of <cite>Best American Fantasy<\/cite> (and possibly all over the rest of my backpack too, I haven't checked yet).<\/p>\n<p>So we landed in Denver around 10 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>But the gate we were going to was occupied.<\/p>\n<p>So we sat on the tarmac for a full hour waiting for a gate to open up.<\/p>\n<p>(Including 15 minutes spent 100 feet from the gate, waiting for the ground crew--who had mysteriously disappeared--to return.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally got off the plane around 11, found baggage claim, and had to wait about 45 minutes for my bag to show up.<\/p>\n<p>Then caught a taxi to the Curtis hotel, where I am now going to collapse. (And where I've started coughing again, after a mostly cough-free afternoon and evening.)<\/p>\n<p>Two unrelated side notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hotel Internet connection is once again refusing to let me send email from the fiction@ address. I'm getting really sick of this. And this time autoresponses won't go out for four days if I don't figure out a way to get around it. I'll try asking Pair tech support tomorrow, or else I'll find a Starbucks or something that has an access point. (This is something that works fine from any normal Internet connection, but apparently hotel connections interact badly with Pair's system, or something.)<\/li>\n<li>It occurred to me tonight that most of the United hubs (or at least major-United-traffic airports) that I use are in really bad-weather places. Chicago, Denver, Boston; pretty much every time I fly through any of these places, there are weather delays. And I fly through one or more of those airports almost every time I fly United. So I should probably start adding about 3 hours of weather delays to my plans for every trip on United.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Or at least with no brain. I checked the weather report for Denver last night and saw that there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}