Too Wired Too Sleep

Topic: Mile High (Blogging) Club
Key Words: Southwest, Button Fields of Nebraska and Kansas, Yearly Salary
Word Count: Who Knows
Tomorrow's Likely Topic: Sheep

On an early morning in December 1993, I took my first plane flight; Birmingham to Chicago Midway, non-stop, on Southwest airlines. I was so impressed with how the clouds looked, I did something real nerdy, I took some pictures through the plane window.

Since that first flight, I've certainly flown a lot, but rarely in the daytime. I suppose it's not really daytime now, after all, my watch says it's 11:05PM CDT. None-the-less, the sky is bright and glaciers are in full glow. I suppose I'm taking the rare nighttime flight in broad daylight! Having not seen the Earth, in daylight, from this high in some time, I think I forgot how awesome things look from 30,000 feet. So I reverted to my original nerdly ways and started snapping pics ....

I know they are just irrigation circles in Kansas and Nebraska, but they looked too cool; like buttons thrown out on the ground.




American Junior peeled back her clouds for some nice shots of the Canadian Rockies.

And somewhere about an hour South of Anchorage, I saw this amazing set of mountains and glaciers.




I've been a busy bee on this flight; I'm trying not to sleep so that I can get some good rest tonight. I forwent my finance magazines for a while, instead opting to extinguish one laptop battery while colonizing the Caribbean in Europa Universalis III (don't worry Jas, I live in harmony with your people)! I then went back to the magazines and read a long spread on starting your own business, and tried to believe the article claiming that our bull market still had a couple of years of life. My neighbor, who is flying for the first time, got a little personal, asking me how many kids I wanted, and what my yearly salary was (she's 54 and married with kids; not looking for a sugar daddy, I hope). Her neighbor is flying to Spain ... via Alaska (sounds shady .... Leon would have had him kicked off the plane if he heard that). 11:12PM CDT. Still light out. I hope my internal clock is up for this.