Live from Dallas, TX

Man, it's fucking sweltering here - I'm in the American Airlines Admiral's Lounge (thanks to the First Class upgrade) at Dallas-Fort Worth and even then I'm sweating. The flight to Tokyo via JAL was actually quite pleasant - JAL has upgraded its economy class video sets so you don't have to be at the mercy of whenever the pilot starts playing the tapes... each set can select whatever movie it wants, whenever it wants, pause, fast forward, etc. I don't know how it's done, but I suspect it's an AVI file of some sort that gets loaded into the system memory rather than a physical tape or DVD.

From Tokyo to DFW was bliss in Business Class, as I expected. Again, was tempted to steal the Bose Noise Cancelling headphones, but was as usual thwarted because they take inventory. Getting through immigration was painless, with nary a question aimed my way. Just stamp, stamp, stamp and on your way, mister.

Navigating DFW wasn't as painful as the last time because I'm more or less familiar with the weirdo sprawling layout now. Managed to find a bus that took me from Terminal A to C rather than having to brave the moving walkway or the wrong-direction-entirely train (oh, sorry - it's the TRAAIN).

Off to the gate now. Next missive should be from Georgia.