{"id":19,"date":"2008-01-02T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-02-26T06:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:31:35","slug":"white-zonered-zone-dichotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"White Zone\/Red Zone Dichotomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Male announcer<\/strong>: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.<br \/>\n<strong>Female announcer<\/strong>: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.<br \/>\n<strong>Male announcer<\/strong>: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.<br \/>\n<strong>Female announcer<\/strong>: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.<br \/>\n<strong>Male announcer<\/strong>: The red zone has always been for loading.<br \/>\n<strong>Female announcer<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.<br \/>\n<strong>Male announcer<\/strong>: Look Betty, don&#8217;t start up with your white zone shit again. There&#8217;s just no stopping in a white zone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"> Airplane(1980)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My day started at 03:15 EST and ended at about 22:00 PST.  There were two flights and numerous bus and plane rides during the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Some events of the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was another guy with a Macbook right across the aisle from me on the first flight.  I reached up and tapped him on the shoulder; when he turned around I held up my Macbook.  He grinned and gave me the thumbs-up.  I grinned back and we both proceeded to Mac it up for an our or so.  After we landed and the all-clear was given to use cell phones, he pulled out a Treo.  I pulled out mine and tapped him on the shoulder again.  Good taste, that man.<\/li>\n<li>There was a diabetic guy on my second flight that had some sort of raised-blood-sugar episode on the plane after putting all of his medications in his checked luggage.  I actually got to hear the &#8220;is there a doctor on board&#8221; phrase.  He was alive when the PDX EMTs wheeled him off the plane and I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s probably ok, now.<\/li>\n<li>I was on the MAX (Portland&#8217;s light-rail system) heading west into downtown when a guy got yanked off of the train by MAX&#8217;s security.  He was clearly drunk and singing, loudly and badly, Kansas&#8217;s <em>Carry On My Wayward Son<\/em>, among other classic rock songs that he was apparently listening to on his headphones.<\/li>\n<li>I got picked up from PDX airport by Andrea, an old friend from UF.<\/li>\n<li>I picked up the keys to the apartment that I had leased, unseen, back in December.  Unfurnished means, among other things, no bed, no chair and no shower curtain.<\/li>\n<li>I bought a bed today.  This turned out to be a non-trivial outing, especially considering the constant drizzle, my unfamiliarity with TriMet and the relatively remote location of the bed store.  Mom helped by calling around and locating a store that would give me a good deal.  The Army helped by providing me with the fortitude to stay upright and coherent even though I was exhausted and still suffering from a fairly enervating cold.  Directly behind the bed store was a Target, where I obtained a shower curtain and some toilet paper.  And some very hot soup in a breadbowl.  The bread was low quality but the dough was very sour.  In Maryland, it was high quality bread but you couldn&#8217;t really tell it was supposed to be sourdough.  Anyway, the bed won&#8217;t be delivered until Saturday so I&#8217;m sleeping on the floor tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone. Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone. 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