Oahu travelog #21
Back home - Tue, 28 Dec 2021, 11pm

What started as a seemingly normal, on time flight home today turned late and worry-making. Yes, while we were in the air it looked like we'd be landing at least 15 minutes early. In fact we did land 15 minutes early. But the sad fact the past few years in US aviation is that any early arrival ( Read more... )

2021 started nine days ago. While the new year means little more to me than the turning of a virtual calendar page, I use that turning as a calendar reminder to recheck and reassess all variety of things. This weekend: my drinking problem.

Recall that years ago I diagnosed myself with a drinking problem- though not the one you may think. The ( Read more... )

Every year around the New Year I reflect upon the past 12 months. This year it's challenging to write about. I could just observe, for about the billionth time, that 2020 was a total dumpster fire and be done with it....


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2020 was so awful even LiveJournal is bagging on it. They've run this picture with a caption about how optimistic they are for 2021.


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Today is December 31. Tonight is New Year's Eve. And I... don't care. I will not be "ringing in the new year" tonight. Partly that's because social gatherings are on hiatus, as they have been for now 290 days. And partly that's because there's nothing new after tonight other than a new page in the calendar.

"But 2021 will bring political change!" ( Read more... )

One of the things I do as the old year wraps up and the new one begins is review a number of travel statistics I keep. Already I blogged about airline frequent flyer points and hotel points tallies for 2019. Now it's time to check in on statistics about the actual act of traveling, similiar to what I did 12 months ago for 2018Here are 5 Things ( Read more... )

Virgin Islands Travelog #19
STT Airport, St. Thomas USVI - Wed, 1 Jan 2020, 1pm

Today we're traveling home from the Virgin Islands. It's going to be a long day of travel.

We slept in a bit this morning after staying up to welcome in the new year last night. There were no parties, though- other than us getting blent. There were no dance clubs ( Read more... )

Virgin Islands Travelog #18
Ready to GET BLENT, St. Thomas USVI - Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 11:30pmAs we spend our last night in the Virgin Islands and wind toward midnight on New Years Eve, a time of reflection about the past, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one thing that's made this year-end trip to the Virgin Islands very different than last year ( Read more... )

Virgin Islands Travelog #17
Back at the hotel, St. Thomas USVI - Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 4pmToday we visited three beaches on St. Thomas island. We headed out early-ish, arriving at Secret Harbor Beach slightly after 9am. Already the temperature was 82° F (28° C) on the way to highs of about 87. This, on New Year's Eve day, while much of the rest of the ( Read more... )

My company operates on a fiscal year 11 months shifted from the calendar year. That means that we just finished up the quarter and the fiscal year yesterday, January 31. I'm not sure how the worldwide sales team did overall-- the figures won't be finalized for several days-- but the account managers I work most closely with beat their targets. The ( Read more... )