How to pass time on a 13 hour flight

Pfff irwell...
Duh

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On 15 May 2007 07:00:50 -0700, me wrote:

On May 15, 9:37 am, "CLK" wrote:
How about you veteran fliers suggesting ways us infrequent fliers can
help
time go by on a very long 13 hour flight on a full plane. Also maybe
some
tipsa on how to make the flight more enjoyable.

#1 Sleep. 13 hours might require some drugs to be effective.

#2 Movies. A 13 hours flight will have several

#3 Reading. With 13 hours, dats allotta book

#4 Eating. Bring yer own

#5 Talking. Ya ever been in a really long meeting?

#6 Combination of above, which in the end is about all ya can do.

#7 Get up and walk about, bumping as many sleeping passengers as
possible.

On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote:
Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a
prescription from a physician.

There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee,
where Souther redneck morons rule.

The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than
14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic
reason that the pill COULD be habit forming.

When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a
major surgery, the drug store filled only 14.

My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something
else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL
the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician
ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day,
with the 14 pills in one month?"

The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't
make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to
sleep.

I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping
insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey
Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other
creatures infested in the state.

-- Reef Fish Bob.

Per -hh:
While a 1st class seat is usually the best single option, most
people aren't willing, understandably so, to pay the significantly
higher cost.

"willing"? How about "able"?

It strikes me as arrogant when people denigrate others for not
flying first or business class.
--
PeteCresswell

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per -hh:

While a 1st class seat is usually the best single option, most
people aren't willing, understandably so, to pay the significantly
higher cost.

"willing"? How about "able"?

If you have enough money to fly someplace on vacation, you probably
could save enough money to be able...but it simply isn't important
enough to do so with your personal trade-offs of what's important to
you (such as a vacation once per year, instead of once every 3 years).


It strikes me as arrogant when people denigrate others for not
flying first or business class.

That's because it is arrogant. Its a classial put-down done by those
that are grossly insecure little self-aggrandizing parahs who try to
make themselves feel taller by stepping on others. As such, their
pathetic opinions can be utterly ignored.


-hh

Rick Blaine writes:

No kidding. Between being bumped and dealing with the "thump thump
thump" of people that have lead feet, it's near impossible to sleep
on a plane.


Reminds me of a flight I was on awhile back. Short of sleep and
ensconced in a first-class aisle seat on an AA 757 (SJC-DFW) on
an early-morning trip, I tried to get some shuteye. I'd noticed
earlier that my seat was adjacent to a soft spot in the deck, and
that whenever someone would walk by in the aisle, I'd feel a slight,
sharp dip (a short, sharp shock...dig it?) to one side. But with
only occasional foot traffic, I could live with it.

As time went by, I started noticing my seat jerking like this more
and more; the foot traffic had become more than occasional. And
not only that, there was stage-whispering in the vestibule of door
2L just around the bulkhead from where I was sitting. Sleep had
become impossible. It was annoying, all the more so because this
was the first time in years that I'd really needed to get some sleep
on an airplane.

It was the stewardesses who were doing all the whispering and the
walking back and forth, so I knew something was up. When we landed
at DFW, everyone was asked to remain seated. An airline employee
boarded the plane and came down the aisle with one of those narrow
aisle-wheelchairs and collected a pudgy, thirtysomething woman from
a seat back in economy class. It appeared that Marshmallow Woman
had suffered some sort of medical emergency -- probably of the
cardiac nature, judging by her pneumatic, Michelinesque physique.

She was trundled up the aisle, out the door, and onto a gurney.
Welcome to Dallas, toots! I bet now you'll watch your diet and
try to get some exercise once in a while, eh?

Then there was my connecting Mad Dog flight to RDU, but that's a
whole 'nother peeve.



Geoff

--
"As Tim would never say about your kind, you
need to be put to death." -- Steve Thompson

"Reef Fish" wrote in message
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On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote:
Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a
prescription from a physician.

There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee,
where Souther redneck morons rule.

The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than
14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic
reason that the pill COULD be habit forming.

When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a
major surgery, the drug store filled only 14.

My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something
else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL
the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician
ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day,
with the 14 pills in one month?"

The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't
make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to
sleep.

I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping
insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey
Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other
creatures infested in the state.

-- Reef Fish Bob.


You obviously haven't read the widely publicised literature & even wider
anecdotal reports of serious problems associated with the long-term
use/abuse of zolpidem tartrate. It is only meant to be a short term
treatment for insomnia, if the problem persists, then other investigations
need to be made.

I guess, also that your "physician" hasn't, either. Try a walk on the google
side.....

Reef Fish wrote:

On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote:
Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a
prescription from a physician.

There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee,
where Souther redneck morons rule.

The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than
14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic
reason that the pill COULD be habit forming.

When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a
major surgery, the drug store filled only 14.

My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something
else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL
the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician
ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day,
with the 14 pills in one month?"

The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't
make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to
sleep.

I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping
insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey
Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other
creatures infested in the state.

-- Reef Fish Bob.

Monkey Trials? Fornicating Southern Baptists? Hey, maybe you can ask
your physician for some of those pills Anna Nicole Smith used to take
to go to sleep. She said they gave her visions of demons fornicating
in the sky and all that good stuff.

On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:37:03 -0400, "CLK" wrote:

How about you veteran fliers suggesting ways us infrequent fliers can help
time go by on a very long 13 hour flight on a full plane. Also maybe some
tipsa on how to make the flight more enjoyable.


For me, it''s music: I carry a nice MP3 player that holds 30 gig of
music and will reliably run for more than 10 hours on a full charge. I
use a really good set of Sennheiser earphones that seal out almost
aything short of a gunshot and just lose myself in a serene world.

I carry a small CD player that handles MP3 files as well as a backup
and a few selected discs...each can hold about 10 hours music as MP3
and the thing uses AA batteries.

Due to a medical condition I can't really sleep on a flight as
sometimes I stop breathing and have to sleep with a device pushing air
in or one of these times I won't start back up..also I snore like a
drunken walrus without the air pump which is no fun for anyone within
five or six rows and occasianally causes the fliight enginer to worry
that a turbine shaft has come unbalanced..grin

I also bring a light pair of binoculars and if there's room enough, I
can watch the world go by outside from a window seat...especially
gorgeous at sunset/sunriose or in polar areas where you can see miles
of unbroken ice and snow or icebergs. or watch what moonlight does to
everything you can see.

The movies are dreck, the in-flight entertainment is often lame and
the supplied headphones horrid so I generally amuse myself as
above...take an ocasional stroll up and down the aisle to keep the
legs from falling off and to let my butt know it's not really dead
it's just the half inch thick seat padding compressing down to a
lack-of-spongy level usually only seen in compressed bales of jute.

I'm not a terribly social person so I don't usually engage strangers
in chit chat but would not be averse to it if someone actually proved
to be interesting and they stay off politics...grin..or how much their
invisible pal "jesus" can do for me.

A pda with some mind losing games like bejewelled helps too but they
usually don't last long enough on batteries to be wortht her weight
unless you carry one anyway.

Hope that helps,

Jim P.

Per -hh:
If you have enough money to fly someplace on vacation, you probably
could save enough money to be able...but it simply isn't important
enough to do so with your personal trade-offs of what's important to
you (such as a vacation once per year, instead of once every 3 years).

Not having flown anywhere on vacation in a looooong time, I was
thinking more along the lines of somebody whose boss told them to
go to LA to this or that meeting - and whose employer only
supports the cheapest tickets.

--
PeteCresswell

On May 17, 6:36 pm, "a" wrote:
"Reef Fish" wrote in message

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On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote:
Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a
prescription from a physician.

There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee,
where Souther redneck morons rule.

The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than
14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic
reason that the pill COULD be habit forming.

When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a
major surgery, the drug store filled only 14.

My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something
else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL
the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician
ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day,
with the 14 pills in one month?"

The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't
make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to
sleep.

I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping
insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey
Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other
creatures infested in the state.

-- Reef Fish Bob.

You obviously haven't read the widely publicised literature & even wider
anecdotal reports of serious problems associated with the long-term
use/abuse of zolpidem tartrate.

You guessed correctly. I've never read anything about ANY
sleeping pill because I never used any. But my point is that
it's none of the business of LAW makers to arbitrarily limit
the prescription of 14 per month when any drug is approved
and used under the supervision of medical doctors.

As for "long=term use/abuse" of anything, serious problems
are not surprising.

It is only meant to be a short term
treatment for insomnia, if the problem persists, then other investigations
need to be made.

Of course it was prescribed as a shorterm treatment.
Since it DIDN'T work for me, it lasted two days! I
abandoned its use and went back to the old fashioned
way of counting sheep. :-)

I guess, also that your "physician" hasn't, either. Try a walk on the google
side

Nothing in the google webpages supported any
LEGISLATION or law applied blindly and
indiscriminantly on that drug. Everything
pointed to FDA approved (a VERY conservative
organization in the US on drug approval) and
pointed to "doctor's order and direction", and
NOT any arbitrary limit by some legislative
rednecks.

I know of ONE drug for motion sickness that
is approved in most countries except the USA
-- Sturgeron (brand name), cinnarizin
(medical ingredian) that is banned by the USA
presumably because of the same "drowsiness"
side-effect. I purchase them in Mexico, and it
turned out to be the ONLY effective pill for me
for motion sickness on SCUBA trips on
extended 8-10 foot tossing of small vessels
(such as the 30 hour crossing from Costa
Rica to the uninhabited Cocos Island to dive
with hammerhead sharks. NONE of the
other known motion isckness medication
kept me from serious barfing for more than
8 hours, except the Surgeron (forte) that are
freely dispensed in Cozumel Mexico where
I've done well over 1000 dives.

Medication and drugs (good or bad) are supposed
to be governed by the MEDICAL profession
and its researched results, and used under
the supervision of medical docs -- NOT by
any law maker -- the lowest form of creature
on earth, aka politicians.

That's the bottom line.

-- Reef Fish Bob.