Ugh, I hate Tuesdays. On Tuesdays, I wear my International Hat in addition to my Help Desk Hat and my Group Hotels Hat and all the other little hats stacked on top of my noggin. So I take calls from travelers who will be flying outside of the US, and they’re a fussy, demanding lot. The regular international agent is always off on Tuesdays – she works a 4 x 10 week (4 hours a week, 10 hours a day). Some of the work is interesting – fares, routes, and so on. Much of the work is tedious – there’s…
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Yes, it’s that time again, pioneers – yes, today we mine the search phrase log for some more Blogon Poetry. And this month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s all about the luuuuuuuuuuuurve. can you spell viagra? sexy toenails and pictures 2004. piercings albert padlock, master slave restaurant plug wet… peekaboo bug holly hack, samuel pepys naughty bits. fried chocolate new york alton brown orlando bloom. real redheads with green eyes, redheads with braids; avoiding negative people — aol bad stuff. Okay, that probably caused only a few people to bleed from their eyes and ears, now let’s have some…
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I ran across this news item in the Chicago Trib today: Pilot urges passengers to discuss faith(subscription) The Advocate had an interview they called “exclusive” with him, notable for the fact that after his “God told me to witness” announcement, some passengers were so creeped out by it that they tried to call relatives on cell phones. Thanks to Accordion Guy for links to more discussions at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: And now, what do I think? I think this pilot is a nut. I think anybody that feels the need to “share” that…
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Got up, eventually, or at least became conscious while listening to :NPR’s “Sunday Edition.” For some reason my dreams were all mixed up with some college basketball team’s woeful performance in a tournament. In the dream I was telling one of the players that they were an embarassment to dream about and they needed to hustle, hustle, hustle the ball more. I don’t even like basketball, what was that all about? Okay. Needed coffee soon after that. David brought some up (he often does that on weekend mornings, the little muffin) and found something to wear and toddled off to…
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Another entry to the England trip journal is now posted under the September archives. It covers the last day or two in London before departing for the Cotswolds. In looking over the diary entries again after several months’ rumination time, I’m convinced we didn’t spend enough time in the Cotswolds, and spent too much time trying to cover too much ground. Next trip, we’re planning on going back to the Cotswolds with a car, so that we can get into the little villages and do a lot more walking in between. So beautiful there.
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We actually got out of the house and went cross-country skiing, just as we planned. Amazing! There’s this place that’s not in the house called the “outdoors,” and we were in it for a while. Conditions weren’t totally ideal (it could have been about 5 or 10 degrees colder, the snow was a bit sticky in the tracks) but it wasn’t bad. We went to the forest preserve/ bike path loop nearest us, and there was just enough snow base to ski on, but not quite enough to make you forget that you were skiing on an asphalt path. I…
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We’re dragging out the cross-country ski stuff to get out and play in the snow today. No promises as to how long it’ll be, we’re getting a typically late start. I’m almost done with another England trip journal entry, just have a few more photos to add in at the end. Should be posted tonight. Ta-ra! We’re off to fall down a lot and get frustrated with having boards stuck on our feet!
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I was scanning various websites the other day and ran across something that just struck me funny from a copyright lawyer that had done some work for Penthouse magazine and its’ sister publications: As an attorney for the Penthouse magazine empire in the mid 1990s, I launched a war against cyberspace dwellers who, without authorization, used photographic images of the Penthouse Pets and models on their web pages. There were literally thousands of web sites posting Penthouse-copyrighted images scanned from Penthouse magazine and its numerous sister publications. Finding Penthouse-owned pictures required some hands-on investigative work. Uh – okay, Counselor, thanks…
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Whoa – Mythbusters is hiring! Note: A weekly salary commensurate with the position will be paid to the successful applicant during shoot periods. You mean… you get to do all that and get PAID, too? The only episode I’ve seen so far is the “Chicken Gun/Killer Washer” one, and already I’m hooked. Surely I know someone who could apply for this job. Wait… via Highlander fandom, I probably do.
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See, this quiz just laid out for me why I don’t watch horror movies, but at least I pass the test! Yay, me. 😉 (also found at ***Dave’s) Would you survive a horror movie? Find out @ She’s Crafty