Remember the Alamomy birthday has been showing up all over the place lately – when i happen to look at the clock, on the serial number on my laptop, my hotel room…if you play it, i’m gonna need 25%.

The first leg of the trip was a fruitless exercise in trying to listen to in-ear headphones on my MP3 player vs. inflight cabin noise. I was kicking myself for not looking for noise cancelling headphones the day before. but lo and behold! i spy the PalmOne store in the Atl terminal. it was like a candystore! I broke down and got one. i had been planning on doing so for a long while now, so it wasn’t exactly an impulse buy. I couldn’t hear myself talk, and it does reduce the hum of the cabin. I went to sleep several times during that leg of the flight subdued in a world of music.