Something about this trip to Las Vegas made me feel that I was getting out of touch with the lifestyle of today. While the pandemic made travel difficult, we have been on three cruises during the past year or so, with a couple of international trips. So what made this more recent experience particularly humbling? To begin, on the flight from Honolulu to San Francisco, everyone in business class seemed to be prepared with bluetooth earphones to listen to their TV screen. Never occurred to me to bring something like that. It took a couple of hours to gently inquire about the audio options. The steward said, oh, here is an earphone, and this is where you connect. Plus, they did not retrieve this ear plug device, so I had one for the next flight to Las Vegas, and back home. There were 100 channels linked to DIRECTV, close to being the equivalent of what is available at home. There were also at least a hundred films available. When I got to the Circa...
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