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 MID-FLIGHT SNACK

 Assorted sandwiches - ham and cheese; tomato and cucumber

 Fruit and light snacks are available at any time following
 the meal service. Please help yourself or ask a flight
 attendant for today's selection

I slept through this. Almost nine hours straight, moving
only to adjust to avoid bedsores or if someone in the aisle
whacked me going past. At the end of the flight, the couple
across the way asked my secret, which is simple enough -
two glasses of Port chasing down a piece of a Benadryl.

 PRIOR TO ARRIVAL

 Cheese omelette - tomato salsa, bacon and chicken sausage

 Cereal and banana - served with milk

 Fresh fruit appetizer, yogurt and breakfast breads

The omelette was very big and filled with a substantial dose
of Swissoid cheese; the bacon (from the loin), though smoked
and salty, was boring, and I didn't finish even the one
slice allotted, and the sausage tasted like nothing at all,
and I left all but one bite. Melon, apple, and pineapple,
all tasteless. The croissant was rubbery. I of course passed
on the yogurt.

Orange juice was like Minute Maid only more like a can.

We landed early, and there's this new automated immigration
such as used to happen only at Dulles, so I was very early
released and went right to the club where I addressed the
twin issues of my power supply going wonky and the screen
fading in and out (I believe that the cold of Australian
winter must have made something contract inside and lose
contact), which came back in the balmy California atmosphere.

UA1912 SFO BOS 1143 2030 753 7A

I have no idea why my upgrade didn't clear as a high elite
with a supposedly confirmed instrument. The claim was made that
a huge load of passengers had cleared, with me being 6th on
the waitlist. That huge load of passengers was a suspicious
circumstance suggesting that my request had deliberately or
accidentally been lost. There was no in-flight entertainment
nor electric power. No matter, the seat formerly known as 9A
has plenty of legroom, and despite being overflowed into a
little by the rather wide gentleman in the B seat, I had
enough space to stretch out and snooze for the bulk of the
trip, which was uneventful so far as I could tell. The flight
came in over half an hour early. I am beginning to see a
pattern: flights are way early except when they're way late.

So I'd made these reservations before I realized I had to be
in Washington, so I had an overnight in Boston and an extra
(not really extra, as it is integral to my requalifying for
US Air platinum) leg back to DC.

The Hampton Boston Logan is a convenient spot and reasonably
well kept, but it's quite costly, sometimes exceeding the
Embassy Suites and even approaching the Hilton in price. I
redeemed points for the night and got a nice enough room.
After putting up my stuff, I went down to the bar (unwittily
called Two Doors Down) for a snack and a brew - I discovered
that the rather nice menu I'd recalled from previous visits
had been considerably abbreviated, and the only beer on tap
now was the please-all-please-none Sam Summer. I suspect a
new cost-cutting F&B manager who should be toasted in the
panini press that he relies on so much until well fired. I
have let my disappointment be known to management. At least
the "kitchen" is open until 11.

Oh, yes, I had a regular Sam in bottle (not on the menu) and
a plate of "locally made" lasagne, which though claimed to
have ground sirloin was nearly if not vegetarian; I should
have had the boil-in-bag ribs or maybe one of those odious
toasted sandwiches.

The bed was oversize and quite comfortable. I slept about as
long as a normal person does and a couple extra hours.

US2160 BOS DCA 0900 1029 319 10A

For some reason, when I went to check in for this flight,
I noted that my preassigned 10F had gone away and my
frequent-flyer number had been excised from the reservation.
So not only no upgrade, no shady-side exit-row window,
either. After some hassling about, I managed to get the
sunny-side exit-row window, which truth be told is perfectly
okay, and it does come with free beer, which I didn't take
advantage of. Turns out the shady-side exit-row window seat
opened up, but eh.

Even the US Air flight landed early, and the Metro came on
time, and I got back to the house at the time I'd promised
my brother, noonish (I'm usually nowhere near my estimate).
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