The "I made it home alive" Thread [Archive]

Cyclonite

26 Jun 2006, 3:57am

I thought I'd throw this up so we can just get a post form those who had to drive/fly more than 20 minutes to get home from Prime's place.

I'm home. My flight out of Detroit was an hour late, so when I landed in Nashville, I pretty much stepped off the plane and walked right on to the next one. It was over booked, so they asked for volunteers to stay off that flight and go on one in the morning. I volunteered but was not chosen. Man. Coulda had $200. Haha.

Anyway, I landed in Tampa at about 9:00 pm. I'm home now an unpacking.

I had a casualty at the LAN thought. My 6600GT is fried. Blah. Looks like I may be upgrading my video card sooner than I wanted. Heh.

Let us know when you get home. :)

RWB

26 Jun 2006, 4:08am

That's nice to hear man... good seeing you at the party!

Cyclonite

26 Jun 2006, 4:20am

Yeah, definitely. I had a great time. I wish I didn't have to leave so early.

citrixmeta

26 Jun 2006, 4:21am

i made it hope alive! so did septimus since i dropped im off:canflag:

profdlp

26 Jun 2006, 4:37am

Cousin Rufus and his posse made it home a couple of hours ago.

It was great (re)meeting all of you! :D

MountainDew

26 Jun 2006, 5:52am

me and magic are back in GR, where the heck did the weekend go?

Thrax

26 Jun 2006, 8:38am

Made it back home safely, which is a feat considering how little sleep I had gotten. I barely had enough energy to carry my Triniton monitor back upstairs.

Good ****ing game, guys. Best LAN yet!

primesuspect

26 Jun 2006, 11:58am

omfg 6:45am is early.. i'm driving dras and mtgoat back to the airport in a few minutes. shorty woke up too, like a trooper, and made tea. i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired right now.

Zanthian

26 Jun 2006, 1:33pm

Well, Sharkydart and I made it back safe...
Made it back to Cincinnati in 3hrs and 45 minutes.

GHoosdum

26 Jun 2006, 1:34pm

I made it back safely - and dropped CB off in the process. Zanthian and sharky got lost on the way from Josephine's to the highway, so we actually got home earlier even though we left a few minutes later. It did seem like a fast trip compared to the drive up there.

It was really great seeing everyone. This was the best "LAN" ever. I can't wait until next year!

citrixmeta

26 Jun 2006, 2:50pm

yes i have to agree this was the best one ever. Its funny how you can get so many people who dont see each other everyday, from different locations and backgrounds and yet treat each other like family. This LAN party was something i will never forget.

Sledgehammer70

26 Jun 2006, 3:24pm

I leave tonight :honoes:

QCH

26 Jun 2006, 3:26pm

I made it back home by 7:00 PM Central time... This was the best party ever, the best LAN, no... Not by far. But it was a GREAT to meet Dan, MACKANZ, Larry (Goat), and all the others that I hadn't met before. Great food too!!!

Larry, Thanks for cooking those steaks!!!!!!!! YUM!!!!

RyderOCZ

26 Jun 2006, 8:45pm

Ball is in your court KwitCo.....1:57 min from the airport to my door with 1 pit stop.

Let's see....I will give you 15 min in case the plane was late.....so you have to be reading this at 3:56pm Eastern time to win :D :tongue:

EDIT: Mack and CrazyJoe were also safely delivered to the airport.....Joe should pipe in here this evening.....Mack....probably sometime Tuesday...I think his travels are going to cross the space-time continuum.

Mt_Goat

26 Jun 2006, 10:22pm

Drasnor and I made it to Austin OK. But I didn't look back once off the plane since Mrs-Goat was waiting so I cna't say if dras made it home from the airport.

On check-in at DTW I had a slight problem . The board I took for the raffle drew suspicions from the screeners. They asked me to step aside and needed to check my bag after asking if it was a laptop or something else. The friggn numskull was brutally handleing the mobo box and I asked him to takeit easy as it wasn't cheap. So when he femoved the board from the boax and was being a real friggn clutz I said "Hey Squiggy, I asked you to take it easy with that expenxive piece of equipment!" No freakin lie, he looked like the Squiggy charachter from Laverne and Shirley. At that point I realized I could have been carted off for a cavity search. One co-worker was very amused by my coment though.

primesuspect

26 Jun 2006, 10:38pm

:honoes: !!!

Cyclonite

26 Jun 2006, 10:39pm

Yeah. They had to remove my pc from the box and wipe it down for what I assume was a device that scanned for explosive materials. The poor lady was having difficulty with it, but she was careful and very nice. I helped her out, as I expected they'd check it.

Kwitko

27 Jun 2006, 12:28am

Ryder OCZ took me, CrazyJoe, and Mackanz to the airport. Eric ended up going the wrong way on 694 so we got there a little late. As we're driving up the ramp to the Northwest Airlines departure area, he claims to have been looking for my terminal. I said, "Uh, Eric... Turn." All of a sudden CrazyJoe and Mack start screaming "TURN!!!!" Eric goes "OH ****!" as we nearly plow into the concrete wall.

I got stopped at airport security and had to be searched with the wand. Flight was delayed 2 hours because of weather problems in New York, but of course we didn't find that out until we were on the plane. So we waited 2 hours on the tarmac. I did end up sitting next to a righteous hottie who kept falling asleep on me, so it wasn't all bad. We're getting married next month in Vegas. You're all invited to the wedding.

RyderOCZ

27 Jun 2006, 12:40am

Marc? Who the heck is Marc?...Its Eric, Seth :D

We didn't even come close to that wall.....and I wasn't "looking at the pretty planes"....It was your gate that I was looking at :p Trying to help you out man :D

Glad your home safe....sucks about the freakin delay though.

EDIT: Cool about the hottie :) Congrats...hehehehehe

profdlp

27 Jun 2006, 12:40am

...I did end up sitting next to a righteous hottie who kept falling asleep on me, so it wasn't all bad. We're getting married next month in Vegas. You're all invited to the wedding.

You rogue. :wink:

Kwitko

27 Jun 2006, 12:53am

Mt_Goat

27 Jun 2006, 2:02am

Yeah. Eric. My bad. I'm tired.
Yea right.

What a lame excuse! ;)

drasnor

27 Jun 2006, 4:49am

I made it!

-drasnor :fold:

MAGIC

27 Jun 2006, 4:56am

im back, arrived home around 6. layed down and slept for like 18 hours.

Crazy Joe

27 Jun 2006, 6:02am

I'm back... After we saw Kwitco off, Mack and I had a ****ing Beer while waiting for his flight... After he left I headed off to my flight that was 30 minutes later... We took off in time (3:05) as they had another flight leaving from the same gate at 4PM... While we were in the air somewhere over Georgia they said that there were some bad storms that they had to go around so we had to go south over the Panhandle and all the way south to Tampa and then back up... We ended up arriving after 6PM for a flight that was scheduled to arrive at 5:40... Not too bad though... I am home and back in my own bed... Thanks for everything!!! It was a blast...

Sledgehammer70

27 Jun 2006, 7:33pm

I made it back at 2:30am here in California, had a bit of a bumpy flight and a long delay in Houston. But I made it home and my wife was damn sure glad to see me.

RyderOCZ

27 Jun 2006, 7:35pm

I made it back at 2:30am here in California, had a bit of a bumpy flight and a long delay in Houston. But I made it home and my wife was damn sure glad to see me.2:30am !!! Your plane was scheduled to take off at 3pm Cali time.....that's almost 12 hours to get from Michigan to Cali :honoes: :hair:
I wonder what they screwed up...hehehe

Shorty

27 Jun 2006, 7:39pm

Glad to hear everyone has made it back safe... Blackhawk is on his way .. and General Keebler is also heading off shortly. Safe Journey guys :)

primesuspect

27 Jun 2006, 7:42pm

Just dropped BH off at the airport. He should be in the air right now.

Crazy Joe

27 Jun 2006, 8:27pm

I'll wave as he flies over me on his way to Orlando... I was just there yesterday... Hopefully he won't get delayed like I did... These storms we're having down here are pretty crappy...

RyderOCZ

27 Jun 2006, 11:06pm

Nothing from TheLostSwede yet...I haven't even seen him on MSN....must be very jet lagged or his flight was delayed...hopefully he will chime in and give us the scoop when he wakes up/gets home :)

profdlp

27 Jun 2006, 11:16pm

He's probably waiting until the bar in the airport is completely drained. ;D

Buddha16

27 Jun 2006, 11:17pm

Well we bar-b-que'd this weekend at a friends house about 20 min away, and for all you that were worried about us we made it home just fine. Thanks for the concern everyone. ;D ;D

Mt_Goat

28 Jun 2006, 12:40am

He's probably waiting until the bar in the airport is completely drained. ;D
I can hear it now.

Better give me a ****ing beer.

I need another ****ing beer mate.

Got any beter ****ing beer than this piss?
Then ya better get me another ****ing beer.

primesuspect

28 Jun 2006, 1:19am

he has become the "****ing beer guy" ;D

citrixmeta

28 Jun 2006, 1:22am

he has become the "****ing beer guy" ;D

rofl, i cant seem get that line out of my head since i left..:scratch:

RyderOCZ

28 Jun 2006, 1:32am

he has become the "****ing beer guy" ;DHmmmm.....I don't know if that is a good rep for my Support guys to have. :beer: :wtf: :shakehead

:rarr: ;) Hehehehehehe

Thrax

28 Jun 2006, 4:31am

"HAY GUYZ WE NEED SOME MORE ****IN' BEERS EH?" :honoes:

Lincoln

28 Jun 2006, 4:38am

Oy, back in Pennsylvania... and so, so, so tired.

RyderOCZ

28 Jun 2006, 4:43am

Cool Matt.....for some reason I thought you were from Eastern Michigan as well....didn't know you had to go all the way back to Pennsylvania :)

Lincoln

28 Jun 2006, 5:09am

Heh, well I do tend to show up at casa de Prime most often and I think I'm almost ready for my "Eastern Michigan local" certification after all those trips to the airport and OPH. :D

TheLostSwede

28 Jun 2006, 9:14am

I'm alive after a weird ride. We parked at the Tarmac in Detroit for a lightyear or 2 and off course, the Philly-Stockholm flight was missed :/

I met a very nice Atlanta guy that missed the same flight so we entually got a new flight to Munich, 8 hours later. Already by that time, i was pretty knackered, no spare clothes or washing gear at all (since that stuff was in the checked-in case that apparently was in russia in russia at that time). We got upgraded to First Class though so we flapped the chairs all out, had a few ****ing beers and a million laughs. Got back in Stockholm about 12 hours late or so and missed the connecting flight to Norway so i had to fork out another 500 dollars for that flight. I just putted my daughter safe to bed when i got home and immediately got my head down.

On the other hand, when you see something like this in the morning, every problem and issues are gone and life is good again. She's just a knock-out.

Zuntar

28 Jun 2006, 12:44pm

................................................
On the other hand, when you see something like this in the morning, every problem and issues are gone and life is good again. She's just a knock-out.
she is a cutie! :respect: :cheers:

Lincoln

28 Jun 2006, 1:12pm

Glad to hear you made it home safe, though it sounds like the airlines did everything they could to screw it up :hrm:

had a few ****ing beers and a million laughs
Awesome ;D ;D

She's just a knock-out.
Indeed! :cheers:

Shorty

28 Jun 2006, 2:41pm

Glad you made it back Mack.. even if it was so damn fraught the whole way! :)

RyderOCZ

28 Jun 2006, 2:47pm

Glad you are home Marcus :D I totally agree about the kids making all the troubles go away....great therapy :clap:

profdlp

28 Jun 2006, 3:19pm

Sounds like quite an adventure. Glad to hear you finally made it back. :cheers:

primesuspect

28 Jun 2006, 3:19pm

we flapped the chairs all out, had a few ****ing beers and a million laughs.

That pretty much sums up the entire lan :D

QCH

28 Jun 2006, 8:09pm

Glad you made it back to that cute little girl!!!! :D

Black Hawk

28 Jun 2006, 11:13pm

I arrived in PR at around midnight. Flight from Detroit to Orlando was okay, except for the lame-ass $3 snack box, no tv and my neighbor's being an 11yr kid playing his DS and some women reading Ann Coulter :whatever:.

Arrived at Orlando pretty late due to some thunderstorms. Flight was supposed to leave at 7:10pm and I arrived at 6:55pm. On top of that, I also didn't have a boarding pass. To make the flight I had to get on a tram, go to the Delta counter, enter security, get on another tram and pretty much run my xxl ass to the gate. I was lucky that the flight was also delayed due to thunderstorms so I left at 7:35pm.

For the cherry on top. When I arrived at San Juan, my luggage was still in Orlando (including video card). No clean undies for me. :sawed:

:honoes: :honoes: :honoes:

Sledgehammer70

28 Jun 2006, 11:53pm

sux to be you :) lol hope you get the graphics card back... underware take 2nd to anything High tech liek that Nvidia Card.

Shorty

1 Jul 2006, 4:08pm

Well im back in Manchester now :)

No hassles or delays.. just a killer 5 hours layover in philly. Got bored by the end.. so watched Boondock Saints on the laptop :cool:

Just relaxing now.. Im not tired.. just coming down off the holiday cloud ;)