Last week I went on my first overnight trip since Jane was
born. I got to spend my night away in
scenic central New Jersey, where the restaurants are BYOB and where you make
big plans to go to bed early but work on a presentation until past bedtime and,
as it turns out, several beers deep.
Also, without getting into detail, let’s just go ahead and add United to
the Very Long List of America’s Most Hated Companies. In my case, these are all airlines.
At least I got to spend some time in the Newark Airport
finishing the highly anticipated (by me) book And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. I mean, if an airline is going to rob you of
time with your precious baby whose first months are priceless and are gone
before you know it, at least have a very good book on hand to pass the
time. Even if said book is not as good
as his other two books The Kite Runner
and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
This is a Very Good Book, but it didn’t all come together
until very late in the game, and by that point I was really hungry and not in a
great head space. It is very tough to
win me over in that mindset, but I still have a favorable opinion of Hosseini
(again, not of United Airlines) and would happily read anything he writes. Hopefully I will read his next book somewhere
more pleasant – like on a beach, or my patio or the DMV.
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