The deed is done!  I now work for Delta.  Odd.  Strange.  Weird.  Surreal.  Sad.    All apply.  I still find myself saying NW, seemingly unable to comprehend what befell me.   Logically I knew it was coming, but emotionally it doesn't seem to have sunk in.  Perhaps - smart as I am - I will come to the realization when it's humid in February.  Now I ( Read more... )

Okay, I've been home for a few weeks now and I think I can finally sit down and write a morsel or two about the trip.  I had a great time.  It was one of the better trips.  I think maybe I should condense all of my trips into one long weekend - it was so chock-full of stuff that I had little down-time.  I left here on the Thursday night and flew ( Read more... )

The siren song of Atlanta beckons louder and louder ...

Back in town ... although knackered is not the word.  I am stuffed full of a cold with a headache the size of Bavaria.  Still, I would do it all again in a heartbeat.  I just have to have a lie-in now though this weekend and catch-up.  Yes, I've been back a week, but it's been all go-go-go since I got back. 

Looks like I will be off to Heathrow on Thursday.  All other options looks tight right now.  

Rain, rain, rain.  That's all it's done today, and I was planning to paint the outside of the house too.  I had heard that Saturday was going to be good, but it wasn't to be.  I tasked myself with getting things done inside the house instead.  It's just me, so you'd think it would be easy, but please - where does all this dust come from in one-week ( Read more... )

I keep thinking about the potential move to Atlanta.  I've said, "Yes.  I'm willing to move, but I hate the thought of the "move."  There's all the "stuff" to deal with.  I roll my eyes at the thought of it ... it does provide me with an excuse to clean out the physical clutter in my life.  I have no deep, meaningful, emotional relationships here, ( Read more... )

Labor Day:  True to it's name I labored: painted, adding weather stripping to the front door and installed a gutter guard at the back of the house.  I would rather been at some barbecue somewhere, or even perhaps at the MN State Fair .... naah, I would rather do anything than go to the State Fair.  I do feel accomplished.  It kind of sucks when you ( Read more... )

It  seems like a good idea: take a day out and go to Philadelphia to pick up some shoes that I had left at a hotel the weekend before.  After returning from Montreal on Saturday - great time!  I thought, well, I have a day to kill, and what would I do but paint anyway.  So, on the spur of the moment, I decided I would indeed fly from Minneapolis to ( Read more... )

 
Tomorrow I head to Washington and Philadelphia for a day.  I am going with two people that entered themselves in a worldwide scavenger hunt.  Tomorrow’s adventure is to get a picture in:

In one of the mobile jet-ways at Dulles airport
At the Smithsonian in front of the donated Northwest Airlines 747 front section
In front of a sign of an airport ( Read more... )