….just modules you haven’t found yet
August 3, 2007
July 25, 2007
More Than Just Us
I just discovered there is such a thing as a “social group for bloggers in Hindhead, Haslemere, Grayshott, Beacon Hill“.
- approximately 2 weeks before I leave the area to go and live abroad.
So I guess I can’t help them be more than just them 
June 22, 2007
Dallas Mavericks and out
Well, I forgot to mention it… but the MaxJet flight we got reseated on was the Dallas Maverick’s private jet.
Hilariously, I was in “Ultra First Class” – which is preumably where the 7-foot+ basketball players sit. I did in fact have 10 feet of leg room. Thank you Mark Cuban.
Less impressed were those ‘business class’ travellers who were relegated to the economy seats at the back of the plane (for the physiotherapists and score-keepers?). Oh, and we did arrive fairly late and I had to run for the connecting flight.
Coming home even my humour didn’t last though… at the JFK check-in desk: “We’ve got bad news; the flight’s just left the UK”.
Well, there’s no way I’m waiting eight hours for a departure at 4am, and a wrecked weekend. So, a nifty hop onto the monorail, a phone to the travel agency, and two hours later I’m flat, asleep, and on my way home – no thanks to my scheduled carrier.
So a skeptic proven right I guess. And I still don’t know what a MaxJet plane actually looks like.
June 11, 2007
Can MaxJet keep a skeptic happy?
I live near Guildford UK, and I need to get to Charlotte in North Carolina.
Now, there’s a direct flight from Gatwork (45 mins away) to Charlotte. But it’s a bit pricey this late in the day.
So we’re trying MaxJet. MaxJet appears to me to be to business class what EasyJet is to economy. But let’s see. I’m game.
But they fly from Stanstead to Washington, and then I connect down to Charlotte. So I’m already grumpy. It’s at least 2 and half hours to Stanstead, and then I have to change. It makes it almost like a 3-leg journey.
I get to check-in. Oh dear – their plane’s out of action. We’re having to use someone else’s. Lots of people complaining that their seats don’t recline (and so on)
I’m not cheerful at this point. I could have been half way to Greenland by now. (And I’m stuck in Essex – the horror of it all!)
But… someone’s smiling down on me. They’ve reassigned all the seats. This other plane has different classes and I seem to have been put right up the front in “Ultra Premium Business Class”. Well; that sounds interesting.
I struggle past hoards of package flights to the MaxJet lounge. At least I can get some peace and quiet.
Oh. Whoah. They have free wifi in the lounge.
I love MaxJet 
November 27, 2006
More virtual living
For reasons at worst trivial, I find myself in hospital overnight.
Say what you like about the UK health service – all that matters to me is that the bedside telephone doubles up as an internet terminal!
So here I am cut off from the real world, but completely immersed (as usual) in my on-line existence. The only downside is the lack of mobile, but I think writing my blog from an NHS bed trumps Dan Applequist’s Blackberry.
