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Yay, have adapter for the international travels now. So now my brain is all consumed with luggage requirements, and continental does not have a helpful separate international carry-on luggage page...So I turn to you flist...

For international flights to Europe, what's the general carry-on limits? I thought you could actually carry-on more than domestic flights, but a few things have made me think it might be less (domestic now is generally 1 bag and 1 personal item of non-descript size that can be back-pack etc). If it's the same (or less) for international, I may have to give up and do one checked luggage piece. If it's 2 + 1 personal item, then I should be good (albeit heavy heavy heavy).

Holiday weekend has been rather boring and involved a) BN and crossover fanfic binge and b) Unit dvd binge. Again S3 of The Unit is much less annoying than I remember from broadcast TV. This may be due to the ability to fastforward through the annoying parts. Which I now totally blame the writers for after listening to a couple of commentaries and guess what? All the male writers diss the homefront stories and complain about it being so hard to switch from the action operations back to the homefront...Hmm, methinks maybe you just didn't try hard enough. Seriously, Lynn Mamet was about the only one that didn't complain of the 3 commentaries that I listened to before I gave up due to severe annoyance at egos. And this is where we confirm that the only dvd commentaries I can listen to without triggering my talk-radio rage is Firefly and Farscape.

Note to people on commentaries: I'd much prefer funny behind the scenes stories than your soliloquy on your personal politics. Kthx.

Where's my BN S3 DVDs already???? Hopefully they'll be here by tomorrow. I'm beyond annoyed that White Collard DVDs got delayed to sync with season premiere. Me needs to hear some Peter and Neal to get my fanfic on people!

So, this "fall" (as I know it should be winterish already) in New Jersey has brought me to a realization.

Oklahoma doesn't have many trees. Now, don't get me wrong -- there are trees and even forests. However, these tend to be within a certain mile radius of rivers or lakes (or honest to god creeks that are SMALL). But in the towns and cities, not so much.

This never really occured much to me when I lived in Philadelphia. But now whereever I drive in New Jersey, town or not, there are trees, trees, trees. I can't remember if our first house had a shade tree - I know our second didn't because that was why I loved visiting my friend's house was so I could climb on their weeping willow (the only one in the entire town because Willow trees don't do well in drought prone areas). My grandparents had several trees (at least before my grandpa got chainsaw happy ten or so years ago), but their house was older and in an older section of town and also in a town that used to be in a forest area (prior to coal mining anyways). Our next door neighbors when I was a kid had ONE tree (pecan was grafted onto it - yum) but it was huge and old. Our current house is next to a large gulch/gorge and so from out of that comes trees but much of the surrounding land is pasture and not so much.

It had never occurred much to me until I moved out here to NJ and was assaulted by trees (novel after living so many years in Philadelphia). You'd think I would have realized it when I lived in Missouri (omg, trees EVERYWHERE in that state), but I guess it didn't mostly because MO has so many rivers and lakes and so that still seemed normalish to me?

Anyways...just fall musings..