January 16-18th

Sunday - Travel Day
Columbus > St. Louis > Columbia, Missouri

Sunday night after my OSU game, I had to fly Southwest because it was the only way to get to St, Louis before midnight. I would then drive 2 hours to Columbia.

My friend Andy ended up on the same flight since his United flight was cancelled. So once we got to St. Louis, he drove us to Columbia.

We got in just before 10pm.

It was kind of a short night since crew call was 7:30a on Monday.

Monday - Game Day
Big Monday Presented by Bud Light: 24 Kansas State vs 14 Missouri Men's CBB

Monday was interesting for sure! I was doing Duet and it had several issues. There was also a Viz on this show. Thank God I was not the Viz op! It was all messed up and it took 6-7 hours to get it up and running. My Duet issues were solved in about 30 minutes.



But because it didn’t look like the Viz was ever going to get up, I had to built the Viz graphics on the Duet. So I had a heavy workload and didn’t have time to take a lunch.

I also never had a chance to get into the arena to take photos :(

After the game I walked to the restaurant next to the hotel. They had this stuffed Tiger in the entrance. I thought it was funny because the tiger was tethered to the cart; as if he was going to run away.

Tuesday - Travel Day
On Tuesday morning, I went to the smallest airport in the country – Columbia, MO. Well the smallest one I have seen at least.

This is the airport – all of it.

I was very early because the hotel clerk last night ordered me a cab and she insisted I needed to leave at 430 for a 6a flight. I tried to argue with her, knowing it had to be a small airport and all… but she said the security lines can get really long. Well, what do I know, I have never been to this airport.

Since I was INSANELY early, I went upstairs to have some breakfast. Which was interesting because there was not an elevator; hard to believe that is allowed with all the ADA laws anymore.

This was the restaurant.

It was ran by a cranky old lady. She made very salty scrambled eggs for me.






After going thru security, I sat down in the gate house. Which was, I believe a mobile home/barn they constructed after 9/11.

The new security screening equipment likely took up all the space that was originally the gate area.
I just found it amusing.