Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for January, 2006

And on the Third Day…
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Screen capture from the website (click for actual size):

Update: February 1st, 6:16am: I picked up my luggage from the front desk. The night clerk said it arrived around 2am. So far I haven’t noticed anything missing.

A Fashion Mystery
Monday, January 30th, 2006

Here are some shoes captured by an Associated Press photographer in Bahrain. Other than the fact that I’ve always been told white socks and black shoes are bad, they look like decent men’s shoes, right?
Check out what they are connected to. Obviously the shoes gave his disguise away.

Baggage Found?
Monday, January 30th, 2006

Cue music: Rocky Mountain High
Northwest Airlines called me to tell me my bag has been found—in Aspen, Colorado! The clerk had no clue how the bag got there. It is to be sent back to Oklahoma City and arrive around 9pm local time.
Update: January 31st, 6:25 am: No bag arrived at the hotel last night.

Presidential TV Bad for Ratings
Monday, January 30th, 2006

HT: Newsbusters
“NBC has canceled the ‘West Wing.’ The ‘West Wing’ has been canceled. See that’s when you know things are bad, when even fictional Democrats aren’t doing well.” –Jay Leno
Apparently things are bad for Independents, too. The New York Daily News reports that ‘Commander in Chief’ is being “put on hiatus” for a new comedy. [...]

Tracing Continues
Sunday, January 29th, 2006

My luggage has been delayed before, but never more than a day. A projector had disappeared from my luggage once. Perhaps with as much exposure as I’ve had to the luggage systems of various airlines, I was bound to lose an entire bag. I don’t know that the luggage is completely lost yet, but [...]