Low life high life

Tammy is forcing me to post this picture. Any guesses where I am? If not, read on...


I posted a couple of years ago about my first ride on the corporate jet. Lately I've been traveling about once a month to meetings in Kansas and we've been scheduling those meetings around the corporate jet schedule. When there is room on those flights, it really makes the travel to those meetings nice - get up in the morning, fly to Kansas, have 7 hours of meetings, fly home by 5:00. Usually, it goes pretty smoothly, but today was not the best of experiences.

For one thing, I've been kind of sick lately so I wasn't feeling great to start with. Add to that having to wake up at 4:30 am to be to the airport by 6. Then top it off with a ride on the potty seat. It wasn't my best day!

If you read my earlier blog post, you'll read about the belted potty seat. I thought it was a joke the first time. It's very real. There are nine normal seats on the plane, but they want to be as efficient as possible, so they always book 10 people on every flight. The leftover seat - you guessed it.

So, the picture is, yes, me sleeping on the toilet of the corporate jet. That was my assigned seat for the day. One of my co-workers was kind enough to snap this one picture and send it to my team. Livin' the high life! Fortunately no one needed to trade seats with me during the flight!

A note to all my dear Kansas family: I always feel so guilty when I take one of these trips. We are so close to home, but I haven't been able to figure out a way to see everyone. We actually land in Gardner (the airport behind the old North Supply building) so I can practically see our old house as we're coming in to land. But as soon as we land we're whisked away to these all day intense meetings and have to be back to the airport by 4:00. So far, I haven't been able to convince them to let us stay longer than a day, but perhaps one of these times. I think we'll be back there on December 13 if anyone wants to get together for lunch!