facejournal and sleep

[jazzfish]

cleolinda explains just what the heck is going on with LJ and Facebook and Twitter: basically, LJ's owners figure the number of people coming onboard LJ through Facebook and Twitter will outweigh the number of people fleeing to other sites such as Dreamwidth. And the fleeing users were the ones who were disabling all the useful (for advertising) privacy-invasive features anyway, so they won't be much missed.

(There's also a side trip through the creepiness of Facebook's new "Stalk this person" feature. Which just ick no. I anticipate that by this time next year I'll have done what I can to purge my Facebook account as well.)

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Still tired. Still writing up Key West (it was awesome). Likely to go home and faceplant for eight hours and wake up around two in the morning. Sleeping on planes works better when you can lean back in your seat, and when the guy next to you doesn't insist on trying to ram his elbow into your ribs, and when the flight doesn't arrive 45 minutes early thus shorting you out of three-quarters of an hour of uneasy but still much missed sleep. Bleh.

(Lessons learned: first, stay the hell away from Airtran. Second, with transit costs BWI may not actually be all that much cheaper than National. Third, do not rely on transit to get home from BWI.)

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

For future reference it counts as "checked in" if you check in 23.5 hrs ahead and then don't print until you get to the airport.

[jazzfish]

Hm. That still requires wading through their line of customer "service," which was only "kind of bad" at BWI and "awful" at SeaTac, because they have no automatic checkin machines. At least, not in those places, at least not that were functional.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

yeah, but especially if you're not checking bags it's not nearly so bad as what happened to me, where 40 min before my flight it turned out they had given my seat away for not yet checking in. (you can pay extra to reserve your seat ahead of time and not be vulnerable to that.)

Also, you may well have managed to keep track of the printout, by, say, putting it in your wallet?

[jazzfish]

*blink* Ick ick ick. Honestly, I think the main reason I don't check in ahead of time is inertia: it's not part of my travel routine and I am nothing if not a Creature of Habit. That's enough of a horror story that I may start checking in beforehand.

... you can /pay extra/ to have them not give your seat away? Yeesh. That's skeezy even by airline standards.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Technically you're supposed to check in 45 min ahead. by the time i found my way to figure out how to check in without bags but at the airport it was less than 45 min.

I don't actually know that it would have made a difference to reserve the seat, but you /can/ pay extra to have 12A instead of choosing what's left at checkin time.