What I Learned on Flight 1

First - It looks like your phone's GPS shuts off when you reach a certain altitude and speed.  I was going to keep track of that off and on through the flight.  No dice. I did get the following screenshot, though.

We were going 500 km/hr.  Here's the acceleration during take off.

A quarter of a g seems like a lot more.

Second - If the people in the rows in front of me are any indication of general attitudes, Michigan is screwed with covid.  They are going to a wedding in North Dakota, and are super pumped about the lack of a mask mandate.  "I'll be able to breathe normally for once." If you can't breathe through two layers of cloth against your face, you probably have other, more serious, health concerns and shouldn't be going to a wedding right now.

Third - I think the gate agent here at Detroit has worked a gate I went through before.

By the way. When I post, it will be mostly  stream of consciousness thoughts.