Monthly Archives: June 2010

Up in the Air

I just had to write something out here. This is my first ever post from the air. I’m on a plane from Austin to Chicago and it has WiFi. I’ve been on flights with WiFi before, but they’ve always been short hops from Austin to Dallas. I can barely get my laptop out on that flight, let alone do anything productive.
Some people have told me that they don’t like to be connected while they fly. That the plane is the last place where you don’t have the distraction of the internet. So far I think that I like being connected. I was able to check some mail and catch up on what’s going on in the world. I know it’s only a 2 hour flight. But if you can be productive the why not. I think that the bigger challenge is the fact that there is almost no room to open my laptop.

Craigslist is just cool

We recently got Ethan a new bunk bed. It’s something he had wanted for a long time and so that was one of his birthday presents this year. We decided to sell his old bed on craigslist. I listed the bed and got several responses quickly. I eventually sold it a couple of days later.
Where things get really cool is that we had an extra box springs set that we needed to get rid of. It sat in the guest room for a couple of weeks and I was just going to throw them out. On a whim I decided to list it on craigslist ‘free’ section. I listed them about 12:30 one afternoon. Within a few minutes I had received an email with someone who was interested and they picked it up before 1:00. So, it took less than 30 minutes to unload this to someone who finds it useful instead of going into a landfill.