First off, I want to wish a very happy birthday to ncalrod I hope the day and year to follow are the best ever, at least until the next one!

And now more about the rhetorical question I chose for a subject:

I had meant to update about my training course in London, but somehow just never made the time to do so. I can summarize the actual course as a good ( Read more... )

In my last post, I said that the flight to Houston went well, so of course the flight from Houston to London had to make up for it! Actually, it wasn't too awful, but there was some aggravation initially. Right after we pushed back from the gate, a thunderstorm blew in over the airport. So we sat on the tarmac for a few minutes and then the ( Read more... )

To continue the post prior to my son's youtube clip; last Tuesday I got up way too early to go to the airport for a 06:20 flight to Houston. The reason for the flight was that it was the first leg in a series of necessary renewals for work. I was met at the Houston airport at 08:00 by a limo driver to get taken to get my bi-annual physical renewed ( Read more... )

OK, I guess I am getting paybacks for thinking that Continental was the better choice over United. Not only was I stuck on the tarmac in Tulsa for an extra hour, but the same sort of thing happened trying to leave Houston! After they boarded the plane, we spent just under an hour while they redistributed the weight in the cargo hold before we ( Read more... )