Hi guys. Well, let’s see. To give you an idea of what my Tuesday was like, let me put it this way. I spent a lot of the time while sitting in the airport, or sitting on the taxiway, or sitting in the plane (s), composing an op-ed piece for the NYT in my mind on how the airline infrastructure in this country has gone past the breaking point. It’s quite broken already.

LGA, a little bit of weather, and well, it was one of those days. A very, very, long day. I walked in the door at about 3 a.m.

Then Wednesday we had some weather ourselves here at the Worldwide Headquarters, and yours truly ended up with no phone, no electricity, and no broadband. At least we didn’t have a tree in the WWH or on the car — a fate that many around us did have.

Finally — today, we’re back up and on the air.

But as I wade through the airline things of interest on my virtual desk, as I get in gear to start back to work on this week’s issue of PlaneBusiness Banter, just a shot to prove that yes, I really was at funeral of Tony Soprano Tuesday. Well kinda.

My cab driver took the scenic route to LGA from Midtown, the one that wraps around through Queens and not through the tunnel or on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and lo and behold, what did I see on my right as we crossed the 57th Street bridge but the Silvercup Studios. In case you don’t know, this is where all the interior shots for the “Sopranos” were shot. Yes, the entire inside of the Soprano house, the Bada Bing, you name it.

Then there was my waiter at the Gerson-Lehman airline financial meeting I spoke at. The luncheon was at Smith and Wollensky and the waiter for our group looked and sounded just like Artie Bucco. (If you have to ask, forget reading further.) So given his likeness, and his propensity for dramatic gestures, I decided to ask him what he thought of the last episode. Well, it was like a tidal wave of expressionism burst forth across the room. And boy he knew his stuff too. He went back to things from season one. I meant to get his picture, but by the time my airline financial session was over with the institutional guys, he had quietly left the room — and I only had his animated discussion to remember him by. I think I’m going to send the guys at S&W a note and find out his name so I can ask for him the next time I go there.