canths_rider has started scanning his slide collection and emailed me a few he'd taken of me in Dec. 1975 in Israel, on the tour where we met. The image here is washed out just enough that you can't tell that the coat I'm wearing is a cheaply tanned, cheaply made sheepskin thing. It looked pretty disreputable even when new and never stopped smelling a little ( Read more... )

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When I last posted, we were waiting for the mechanics to fix the problem on the plane we'd boarded. Shortly after that they gave up and stqrted looking for another plane. A little while after that they cancelled the flight entirely. So now it's an hour and a half after the scheduled departure time and there's 300 grumpy people queued up at the ( Read more... )

I like to check in online for flights as often as possible, but I usually can't when heading home from visiting my parents, not having access to a printer or fax ( Read more... )