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I listened to Roy Kim's song "Home" as the plane took off from LAX headed for Incheon International Airport. The journey began Friday evening (to avoid the mysteriously inconvenient snow storm) in Atlanta. After having a couple beers with Roth, I took a nap in an old pay-phone booth by laying against my luggage. By 5:30am I had my bags checked, ate breakfast at Starbucks and got through security. I forgot toothpaste, so I was able to pick it up along with a new Murakami novel for travel-literature. Although my friends were worried my plane would be delayed, the airport staff assured me things were running on time and would go fine. They also assured me that I would have ample time during the layover to get to my next flight. Now I know why so many people hate Delta. After boarding everyone, and announcing we would be taking off on-time, our plane was stopped on the runway for an hour. The pilot and staff sounded just as unpleasantly surprised and annoyed as we were....