The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: stupid travel update

  • Sanjay Gupta and Jack Kevorkian went to the same medical school

    I hate end-of-year lists. I didn’t even know it was 2014 for half of the year, and I can’t remember what I wrote, read, bought, or otherwise did. I published two books, and worked on two others, but you probably already know that. I fell down a brief Jack Kevorkian k-hole the other day, probably…

  • I wonder if Albrecht Durer was a Pepsi or a Coke guy

    OK, I’m back. Went to bed at 8:00, Oakland time, and woke back up at 2:00, unable to sleep, so here I am, digging through the piles of trash from my luggage, trying to return the gadgets to their daily configuration so I can get back to The World by Monday. The flight back yesterday…

  • Nuremberg

    Good to be back here.  I have walked a lot and ate too much and just bought a hundred pounds of art books. OK, a bulleted list summary: The flight out was brutal. Couldn’t sleep on the plane, other than little half-hour naps here and there. Left SFO at about 8:30 PM after a mechanical…

  • I wish someone would slap me every time I think probiotics will make my life complete

    I always get disoriented when I fly open-jawed and land in an airport that’s different than the one I left from.  I don’t remember the last time I did it, but last night I landed in SFO a week and a half after departing from OAK, and it really fucked me up.  I walked down…

  • LA Weekend

    I had an unexpected trip to LA last weekend.  It wasn’t unexpected as in bad; S had a Monday work thing at the last second, and she extended it and I tagged along, leaving Friday after work and coming back Sunday morning.  I always like to go to LA, although the trips are always far…

  • New York, Again

    It feels like I was just here, but I guess that was almost a year ago.  And it feels like I just lived here, but that ended six years ago.  Six years? Anyway.  Woke up early.  Packed a carry-on and a personal item.  Drove to SFO and left the car at the wrong terminal, the…

  • Notes from a trip journal, London

    [I wrote this on 5.17.2012 and it doesn’t really have an ending.] I’m in Nuremberg today, sitting in my hotel with a glass bottle of Coke and listening to Jimi. I’ll get to the first leg of my German trip (and the horrible travel day I had getting here), probably about the time I’m leaving…

  • Angel City and the Circle of Life

    It’s Friday, and in about an hour, I’m off to OAK to catch a flight to LAX and spend a weekend celebrating my birthday.  No real plans, except for a quick trip, and probably a lot of nostalgia for the time five years ago when I lived down there.  I really do love LA, even…

  • New Year’s Resolution: 1920×1080

    It is the start of a new year — four days into it, really — and I haven’t done shit.  I always have these wise ideas about some post-a-day project, either here, or some great new site that involves posting a story a day or a wiki page per day or whatever, culminating in a…

  • Bass, Cookies, Vomit

    I am back from my trip to Reno.  I won $100 on a slot machine.  I bought a new bass.  I had a dream about cookies.  I saw a big lake. OK, first, slot machines – I have a mixed opinion.  I know they require no skill or thought.  I go to Vegas with a…