Kia ora to all back home in NZ,
It is I Toronto Pip, no I mean NYPD (New York Pip
Dept), oh I have no idea who I am.
Currently I am commuting to New York every week from
Toronto. So it is down on Monday morn & back Friday
evening, as you can guess the "banshee" is not overly
happy with these arrangements... I can assure you it
is not such a great arrangement for me either...not
enough jiggy jiggy.
Here is last weeks flying adventure...
Limo picks me up at 4am (yes limo, or town car as they
call them up here) the early hour due to the fact that
it is an international flight. Check in, no luggage
only carry on. Sit in seat at 6.15am, taxi out while
looking at snow storm dumping about 6 inches of snow
on the wing??? We de-ice which takes about 15 Min's,
then taxi to take off, pilot not happy so back to
gate...Back out to de-ice at 7.45am, this time there
is a queue, wait another 30Min's...De-ice and taxi to
join a 20min queue...Pilot announces that flight has
been cancelled due to ice rain and the plane is not
rated for flying in ice-rain. In many ways this is
rather comforting...We de-plane & there is the normal
stampede to the gate to re-book. We seasoned
traveller's stay in our seats and hit the Continental
re-dial button and re-book on the 10.30 flight with
which we are told to go to gate 9 to collect boarding
passes, 75 people do not go into 40 seats. Stroll up
to the gate and wait patiently at back of queue. They
announce that flight is full, however could Pip Wood ,
John Smith etc etc please come and collect their
boarding passes. The looks we get are hostile to say
the least...Finally we take off...have 25Min's of
horrendous turbulence and arrive in Newark at 2.14pm.
Friday, limo picks me up at 5.15pm to drive to
airport, big queues as it is Friday, 8.15pm flight
back to Toronto...it starts to snow horizontally...we
board as per usual and push back on time at 8pm...taxi
out to be de-iced, with pilot saying we are on time
and will be taking off shortly after this
process...then announces that we are 39th in the
queue...2 hrs later we de-ice...taxi...and take
off...arrive in Toronto at 12.30am Sat...oh the joys
of living the life of an international business
person.
This week I chose to travel to Washington DC where I
had 2 important meetings. One was with the govt
contract dept...once you get in here and are on the
list...it means every project that is a govt funded
one...your product is specified automatically.
The next meeting was at the FBI headquarters in
DC...of course I was there on the day that George Baby
was having his State of The Nation speech...everybody
in law enforcement was on high alert...we were
visiting a very high tech area that was
CLASSIFIED...our product has been installed because of
its anti-static qualities...it was an experience...we
were x-rayed twice (this only showed up my hand
gun)...patted down twice (I pretend to enjoy that a
little to much)...no cell phones or any electronic
devices (what I can't use my spy camera in here)...I
tried to get on one of the computers to see what dirt
they had on me but alas I failed...as soon as you move
from where you are supposed to be someone in a blue
suit appears from no where...I wasn't even able to
keep my FBI visitors pass...When we left the building
I couldn't help but say "he's got a gun" loudly just
to get a reaction... apparently they don't fall for
that one anymore...
I was deposited on the pavement by two guys in blue
suits...what is it with the FBI and blue suits...
Oh god it's Super Bowl in a few weeks...I had to endue
a semi-final the other night...what a stupid game...it
takes 3 hrs to play a game of 4 x 20min
quarters...There was a game of rugby also playing but
trying to explain how real men play sport to this lot
is a waste of time...when the rugby game had finished
they were just finishing the 2nd quarter???
"The She Devil" is of to Paris next week...poor her
eh...we have a friend Robert who takes an apartment
there every year so she can stay for free...his boy
friend (hence Julie going to stay in Paris with our
friend Robert) Gerard is a fantastic & becoming well
known artist...so it gets me out of having to go there
and look at museum's/art galleries & old
buildings...all I want to do is chase French Skirt
(probably why I haven't been invited)...so she can
titter around look at art and fashion with two guys
who understand tittering about looking at art and
fashion...
Montreal (soon to be Manhattan) McGregor will have
some quality time with his dad...when I come down here
to NY he will have to join me...
That's all for now...I will be back soon as I have a
few more tales to tell...
NYPD Pip
Over and out.
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