Sorry, Patrick, love you but please, no, on the dirty plates. We also don’t want to see the next stage of the food.

I am thinking about splurging on a Briggs & Reilly model. Not for work, but for personal travel, keeping my LuggageWorks bag for my pilot stuff.

But I’ll ask a different question, for an elderly relative who recently wore out his short-duration trip carryon, what would you recommend? It’s good that he’s still flying places, at his age staying active and doing things means staying alive. But I don’t want him going to the usual suspect online vendors of mass cheap crap and finding himself 1200 miles from home with a broken zipper spilling contents (this happened visiting me and I was able to salvage his bag enough to get him home). Minimum 2 wheels because carrying through terminals is out of the question, and yes maybe the dreaded spinner bag is in order (though 2 wheels is lighter).

I searched your back posts, and around 2018 you basically said pilots (higher income) tend to go for luggageworks and flight attendants tend to go for travelpro. Still the (er) case? Any updates on brand favorites?

But yeah, the compulsive taking of selfies grates. The British thinker Paul Kingsnorth says that we’re hard-wired to worship. And if people no longer worship a deity, then they’ll worship an ideology or just the modern managerial consumer techno-state, which ultimately means worshipping themselves: selfies, & the food that sustains them. Pure consumerism.

Not seeing too many pillows in airports lately… what I find icky are very young women wearing “shorts” with basically no inseam, especially when accompanied by mommy who’s often in the same getup. It’s just gross; maybe some like that kind of thing but girl we do not need to see your butt or anything else hanging out.

/old man yells at cloud

But the one time I ate at Pini’s (years ago) the sauce was way too sweet. Is it still sweet? I have a thing about savory foods not being sweet (although I seem to be okay with sweet foods also being savory).