About a year ago I swore Atlanta, GA was dead to me.

I would never again fly in and out of GTR (the Golden Triangle Regional airport - there is a euphemism here, I'm sure of it) through Atlanta International.  After being stuck there for nearly thirty-five hours I can, with some real legitimacy, assert that it is an evil place.  Especially Concourse C.  Lots of bad energy in Concourse C.

Anyway, here I am.  Stuck in GTR because our flight into Atlanta is delayed.  I have been told not to worry about making my connection from Atlanta to LA because that too has been delayed.  If I lived in Macon I'd be home by now.

GTR would a be a pleasant and peaceful place if there weren't three competing sound systems (two different muzak systems, one for the waiting area and one for the vending machine area 8 feet away, and Fox News being blasted from the one tv).  The seats are fairly comfortable.  There are only three flights out a day so its never particularly crowded.  And because there are never more than 40 passengers to speak to, a human being makes announcements instead of a loop of british-accented security reminders like in other airports.  And yet it is as if, out of some sort of deep-seated insecurity about being a backwater landing strip, they have to turn up the volume on everything.  Like its not an airport if there isn't a medium roar of ambient noise.

Also of note: what appears to be a trophy case for Century21 real estate associate Doris Hardy.  There's one for "Centurion Hall of Fame" and one for "'Top 50' in Mid-South Region" (I ask how many more than 50 real estate agents are there in the Mid-South Region?) and one for "Only MS office with Certified Integrity Selling Facilitator."  What the crap?  I'm intrigued.  I'm going to give this Doris Hardy a call.

Oooh!  oooh! TSA just opened up the security area!  This looks very promising.  Next stop, well stupid Atlanta, but THEN THEN the City of Angels.  As Daniel says "home to Titos, Applepan, and the team that will not be named (that is not named the Clippers)."  Victory and/or the basic service I paid good money for is nigh!