Congratz! You’re the only person I know who spends more time in the air than me 
Hope you get some good seats, I remember the Grand Prix being a rapid blur of buzzing cars every five minutes
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What do you do for a living that requires so much travel?
Yes our seats are very good this time around!
I love the F1 races! I have been to a few now, Belgium was first with my Dad. We got general admission tickets and sat on a hill and had to wee in the forest 
. Since then I have been to Spain, Italy (Monza), Monaco, China, Austria, The Netherlands, and last year I was in Abu Dhabi all with better seats, but I keep saying one of these years I want to do GA again and just find a nice hill to sit on. Sometimes the simple stuff is the best.
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I can’t say for security reasons, but I can have periods where there’s little to no travel and I’m just in one country for ages, then suddenly it’s trains, boats and planes for weeks at a time, with only a few days in between assignments. Passport never gets packed away and you’re living out of suitcases and rentals for long periods like a poor man’s Agent 47 Do your employers put you in economy or do they spring for the extra leg room?
I believe I saw it at Monaco? That would’ve been a few years ago now and I’m unclear if it was Grand Prix or another hyperspeed race. I was on a hotel balcony and they zipped by like bullets, then nothing for another 5-10 minutes 
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Nearly always with extra leg room. This trip will be for leisure though and I refuse to go over an ocean without a layflat seat.
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Wait…are you the guy that cranks his seat all the way back as soon as I’m about to start eating?! 
don’t try to lie, I’ll know!
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No Mano. I meant the actual lay flat seats that seem to be getting smaller and smaller with each round of refreshes at all the major airlines. Turkish still has some 777s that are only 7 across, but basically everyone else has gone to 8 across so you’re kinda jammed into a little angled coffin 
type thing. Sure beats coach though, especially on the 15+ hour flights.
Usually in coach I toss my seat back about 1/3 of the way. For whenever reason (probably my height) a coach seat tossed all the way back usually is less comfortable than one that doesn’t recline at all.
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Oh I get what you mean now by the lay flats!
Anything beats coach, which is a shame because that’s often where I am. Twoooo…three days ago I was middle aisle, the dead center and squished in for 14 hours. It was so narrow I had to sit with my arms folded because there was no space to put them down! It was like that parable about the people trying to eat their meals with long spoons, we practically had to feed each other because our arms were too long to reach the food I always threaten to fork out more for an upgrade, but then I remember that 6h red eye where I had a whole row to myself and I know I’d be kicking myself if I’d stumped up the doubloons for an upgrade.
We should start a travel thread, maybe or maybe not just for air travel
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Here you go: Travel preferences and habits
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All are for games?
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Linux ISO-files…
somethingabout20
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Bought a pair of Blundstone 584, a nice winter Chelsea Boot.
My current winter boots are not waterproof and with laces. I hate them. They take forever to put on, then just to walk around in a not dry boot all day.
I planned to buy them early 2026, but after a lot of rainy days and a lot of snow today. I decided to jump the gun.
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I wear those 
not those exact ones, but that style of shoe, because they can pass for a shoe while still having the qualities of a boot. If they’re black, they work in overalls and with a suit. And unlike thick boots that don’t bend in the ankle when you’re running, I find these are flexible enough to bend with you
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I have a pair of dark grey Chelsea boots in suede leather. I use them to dress a bit up.
You could be rocking a tuxedo in those! Or working the fields, that’s what I love about them. Though I call them brogans, I’m not sure if that’s just an alternate name or a different product
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Chelsea Boot should be a very common name, you will get a lot of search results by googling it. I’m very confident that the boot style is called that.
I love that you can just slip in and off you go. No damn laces and forcing your feet into a damn boot.