Count me as another frustrated traveler. I flew out of NY's LaGuardia Airport today to Chicago O'Hare. The original itinerary was, fly out of NY LGA at 10:35AM EST and arrive at Chicago O'Hare at 12:20 central time. But, that was the original plan...below is what exactly happened.
I arrived at LaGuardia at 9:30AM. A full hour ahead of my departure time just like the TSA recommended. Boarding was scheduled to be at 10:05AM. Around 10:20AM, we were told that there's a instrument issue that will delay us a bit. Eventually we boarded the plane at 10:30AM. Not bad.
But, when 10:35AM rolled around, we were told that technicians have to be call in to check on the instrument issue. After about 25 minutes, the doors were closed and we were about to push off. A few minutes later, we were told that one of the door sensors wasn't working. The sensor shows the door as open when it was closed. Of course we can't fly with a faulty sensor. The technician is called out again.
Another 30 minutes passed. The sensor fixed, we pushed off. However, we were 27th in line to take off. Ouch. After waiting for 45 minutes, the plane veered off from the take off line. Apparently, Chicago is raining, they issued a ground stop for planes heading there.
Another 45 minutes later, the ground stop is lifted, but we lost our spot in the take off line. Oh boy. We get back in line. Finally at 1:20PM EST, we took off. That's nearly 3 hours after the original itinerary. 3 HOURS!
I'm not sure who to blame, American Airline for having faulty instrument panel and door sensor, or LaGuardia for allowing 27 airplanes to wait for take off, or Chicago for issuing a ground stop for rain. I hope my flight home is much less eventful.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Attacked by the Flu
I've been lucky in the last few years and escaped the wraft of the Flu virus. However, this year is when my luck ran out. Evan came down with the bug on Monday. I took care of him the best that I can. I was hoping that my strong immune system will protect me.
Two days later, while at work, I can feel my immune system losing the battle. My nose started to get stuffed up. My body started to feel achy. My head started to feel warm. And I started to feel chills. When I got home, I check my temperature and it was 102. I was officially suffering from the flu.
My temperature came down after 2 days. The cough is still lingering still, even after 7 days. The vicious flu interrupted our plans to go snowboarding in Vermont. The flu wins another one!
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Two days later, while at work, I can feel my immune system losing the battle. My nose started to get stuffed up. My body started to feel achy. My head started to feel warm. And I started to feel chills. When I got home, I check my temperature and it was 102. I was officially suffering from the flu.
My temperature came down after 2 days. The cough is still lingering still, even after 7 days. The vicious flu interrupted our plans to go snowboarding in Vermont. The flu wins another one!
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Monday, February 18, 2008
10 Hours of Upgrade
On around Feb. 14, my 1-year old Gateway laptop running Microsoft Vista started to inform me that there are new updates for me to install. Being the anal computer user that I am, I always make sure that I have the latest updates and patches. So, I allow the computer to auto-update whatever it asked. For 3 days, I rebooted every time the computer asked. When I checked the update log on 2/17, I saw that none of the updates have been installed.
Reinstalling the 11 updates and restarting several times ended the same failure. All the updates failed. After couple trial and errors, I found that if I install the updates one at a time and restarting after every update, the update install fine. However, after each update, the system configures at shutdown and startup. So, every single update requires at least 15 minutes. One of the patch update took 3 hours. During the system configuration at startup, Vista said "System Configuring, Do Not Turn off Your Computer". So, I stared at it for about 30 minutes. Nothing happened. After the first 30 minutes, I walked away, and came back to check the progress. Nothing changed. I wanted to turn off the computer, but the big warning sign warned me not to.
So, I didn't. 3 hours later, it finally finished configuring. I still have 10 updates to go. Finally, after about 10 hours, it was done.
I can't believe Vista takes so long to update. I don't remember ever having so much trouble in the past with XP and Windows 2000. No wonder Vista is considered a failure. What a waste of my Sunday.
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Reinstalling the 11 updates and restarting several times ended the same failure. All the updates failed. After couple trial and errors, I found that if I install the updates one at a time and restarting after every update, the update install fine. However, after each update, the system configures at shutdown and startup. So, every single update requires at least 15 minutes. One of the patch update took 3 hours. During the system configuration at startup, Vista said "System Configuring, Do Not Turn off Your Computer". So, I stared at it for about 30 minutes. Nothing happened. After the first 30 minutes, I walked away, and came back to check the progress. Nothing changed. I wanted to turn off the computer, but the big warning sign warned me not to.
So, I didn't. 3 hours later, it finally finished configuring. I still have 10 updates to go. Finally, after about 10 hours, it was done.
I can't believe Vista takes so long to update. I don't remember ever having so much trouble in the past with XP and Windows 2000. No wonder Vista is considered a failure. What a waste of my Sunday.
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