Note: This post was written in-flight and was published later. Today is one of the shortest days of my short life.  I got up at 4:15a this morning to catch the 5am shuttle back to the airport.  At the airport, security was much busier than RDU, but moved quickly.  Luckily, my boarding pass from yesterday …

Well, my day got off to a good start.  I arrived at RDU and got checked in quickly.  I went through security in no time and headed down to my gate.  There was an A&W as close to the gate as you can get, so I grabbed a burger for lunch.  At about 1:40pm, we …