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Loading... will be quick and clean this week. Jeff, Phil and I are attending meetings all week that will cut into our MMOG information delivery time.

But first, a quick story...

Regular readers know how much I love to travel. Given the choice of a trip or a kick in the nethers I'll take the kick just about every time. This trip is not changing my mind.

My flight to Las Vegas normally takes four hours and change. This time however, the flight took five hours and 20 minutes, because of, get this, 220km per hour headwinds. I don't know about you, but I'd have preferred not to know why the plane was going so slow.

To make the long flight even sweeter the lady sitting beside me required a "seatbelt extender". If you can't fit into the seatbelt on an airplane, well...maybe the headwinds weren't the reason the plane was bogging down.

Oh, and what's with this "Basketbrawl" nonsense? That wasn't a fight. The wimpiest hockey player on the planet could have beaten up all 10 of those NBA stooges.

Do you have a great travel story?

Let me know, either in the comments section of the blog or in our forums!
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