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I don’t really have a damn thing to post right now, but I’m leaving town for three days tomorrow, so I figured I better make a post now. But seeing as how my brain is completely empty, I’m just gonna sit here and write. Let’s see what we come up with.

My mom is an stewardess or airline attendant or air goddess as she prefers to be called. That’s no big surprise to anyone who reads this blog. Because of this, I get to fly basically for 90% off a retail plane ticket price. That is awesome. However, I have to fly standby and can sometimes be stranded in Denver, San Fran, or Kalamazoo (which have all happened before). That is not awesome. Every few months, my mom is given tickets which allow her or any of her family members to fly for not just 90% off, but 100% off. That is kick ass. However, these tickets expire within a few months of her obtaining them. That is non kick ass.

Since domestic ticket prices have fallen, we’ve tried not to use these passes on anything other than International tickets since they can still run a few grand. That’s how I’ve been to all the places I’ve been and how I was basically able to just up and go to Australia this past October for a month. The kicker about this whole gig is that that I completely lose the ability to fly under my mom’s passes the day I turn 25. I guess this has something to do with United being in the shitter financially and not wanting to pay to schlep me around the world. I find that to be a bit selfish on their part. So in essence, I have 26 months left to fly for peanuts and wouldn’t you know, but my mom has one of those free passes expiring later this month. Since I’m a firm believer in never passing up something free and I absolutely love to travel, I convinced my mom to trade out of her scheduled trip and pick up a trip to Zurich just so I could tag along.

I wanted to go to Zurich for a few reasons. A) I’ve never been. B) I love going places I’ve never been. C) I’ve yet to go there. Now before you get all jealous and wish you could live the high life that is Goob, there are a few drawbacks to tagging along with my mom on a flight. First off, I said I was gonna be gone three days, right? Well the first day is spent getting there and the third day is spent getting home Throw in the time zone changes and the few hours it takes for customs / showing up early before our flight home so she can prep for it and basically you’re looking at about 22 hours, some of which people like my mom enjoy using to sleep. But for me, 22 hours is enough. I can usually cram in a few historical points of interest, grab two meals at some authentic restaurants, enjoy some local adult beverages, and be home in time to catch the next new episode of Lost - that is, if it wasn’t on Christmas hiatus. Fucking networks and them making me wait another month to see what happens….

Anyways, back to my point. This is how I’ve traveled for the most part. Go to a place, hit up everything you can in the short time span you have, move on. It’s actually pretty fun, because I find that if I travel to a place for, let’s say a week, then I just lie around the hotel saying I’m vacationing and I never get out and do anything. If I travel with my mom (or by myself a few times in the past), then I know I only have a day or two or three tops before I gotta come home. So, all this means that I am the least lazy when I am on vacation. While at home, I always say I’ve got time or I’ll do it tomorrow. But when I go somewhere, shit gets done. Go figure.

Okay, let’s switch gears here. I was about to type up a little poll, but I think I’ll save that for a post next week. There’s also the beer vs. mixed drinks post coming when I get back. Oh, and I just started typing about my brother Colton, but I think he’ll get his own post too. Hmmm….oh, how about this. Remember the Goob Experience (of course you do, so I’m not linking to it.) Well, what you may not remember is that in it, the winner was to have a guest authorship here on Shyzer for a month. Now, Fellner apparently is too fucking lazy to make use of that, so I’m going to start something new here. If anybody out there thinks they would make a good guest author, then let me know. We’re gonna have our first one on here real soon hopefully (at least, he agreed to be one…I hope he was serious or else I’m looking like an idiot right about now) Shoot me an e-mail if you’re interested. We’re not talking about you posting every day, more like once or twice a year. Even once a month if you wanted to make that commitment. I figure getting 10 or so people to make some not-so-regular posts peppered throughout the year would help pump some life back into this hallow shell of a site.

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Now, before I go, I want to mention something. This post actually turned out to be a bit long in Microsoft Word (over 3 freaking pages), so I cut off the final story and programmed it to post while I’m in Zurich. If you remember, this function didn’t work with MoveableType, but I’m assured it actually works with Wordpress. Yeah…we’ll fucking see. Until then!