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Tomorrow, Meredith is leaving on a week-long expedition to Tennessee to see her twin sister and her family - including an expedition to Memphis, and back again to the Harrington farm (a really lovely place).    Her really big presents (woo-hoo wise) were a new set of Ugg boots, and her Sissy’s ( Read more... )

Originally published at . You can comment here or there.

Ever been on a plane and groaned inwardly at the pre-flight briefing speech (or video) by the crew about how things work on the plane, etc? This one shouldn’t bother you, I think:
http://www.theflyingsocialnetwork.com/archives/5571

Since I’m now the designated Doer of Laundry, I’m trying to deal with a backlog of stuff; I think I have everything downstairs and sorted out, it’s just a matter of going through huge amounts of stuff - and the interruptions in the sequence.  Mere wants this smaller bunch done right away for her first day of school (tomorrow, for the 7th grade), ( Read more... )

For those of you out in my reading audience who have kids who are obviously NOT your particular ethnicity (such as Mere for us) - have you ever had any problems with official ID checks, on the line of ‘this really your kid’, questioning their ‘real’ citizenship and family status, or worse?  I’m talking about police pullovers on the road, checks at ( Read more... )

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NYT story about an FAA inspector who blew the whistle on a new airplane’s safety problems, and was silenced by the FAA and the airline by removing him from his job. Remember that airplane that crashed near Buffalo this winter? Yep, that airline and that airplane was the one in question.

Mr. Monteleon said his supervisors were too “cozy” with ( Read more... )

British discount airline mulls making their planes’ toilets PAY toilets, assume people have pound coins in their pocket. I assure you, I don’t carry major change in my pockets in US airliners - the metal detectors would go nuts.

UK bankers have a fit over cuts in bonuses and whatnot; some say they’ll look for overseas jobs (good luck finding them ( Read more... )

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It’s official that we will have a visitor for the Christmas - New Years holidays - the Harringtons bought Meredith Ellen a ticket to fly up here for a week, from the 28th to the 3rd.  Both the twins are rapturously happy.

The reaction, as I related it to Leigh Ann:

Mere: *huge amounts of excited squealing*
Mere: How long?
Daddy: Oh, about a week.
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“That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.”  - Sarah Palin, at the RNC.

“You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay - made a profit,” John McCain said, introducing Palin.

Palin did place it on eBay, all right.  Alaska had paid $2.7 million for it for her predecessor, ( Read more... )