Checked.

Oh, dear, I am getting bored and boring.
With no one to blame but myself.
I’m going to dodder and drool and babble right here in full view of the innernets. If you keep reading? You have been warned.
Yesterday was bracketed by medical checkups as the first and last things on the calendar.
Hearing test first. My hearing [...]

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Happy New Year, Chilly (or Diva)

I think a nice new home is in your immediate future.
And on behalf of the human race, I can only offer apologies for what some unknown lower-than-a-snake-belly total waste of space did to you before you were found and rescued.

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Feel good story for Boxing Day

Also known as December 26, or the day after Christmas. The Denver Post featured Buckley on the front page. The good news: he’ll continue to hang out at the State Treasurer’s Office.

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I take it back

I don’t really hate Christmas. Although I think I already said that it’s not Christmas I hate, just the gross commercialized culture of excess and frenzy that comes with it these days.
So, it happened again to me this year. The annual miracle of the Christmas spirit. Right on schedule, the morning of December 24. I [...]

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One year old

Happy birthday to a happy, friendly little guy who was born on Christmas Eve last year.
You’ve been worth it, dude. I hope we have a lot more Christmases together.
Now, go out, locate a nice guy for me. And fetch.

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

But I bought a llama instead.
In honor of my family, via the Heifer Project.
Merry Christmas, everyone.

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Did he really say bazillion?

Yes, right there on page 1 of the Denver Post:
“The black box has a bazillion different parameters on it. They will hone in on what went wrong.” Mike Boyd, aviation analyst, on the voice and data recorders, above, that have been sent to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Gosh, isn’t it great when [...]

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Only, perhaps, if they were laced with recreational substances

Of all the total stupid backassward fatuous IDIOCY I have read in the course of a long and wasted life, something I saw today online may have taken the all-time award for Stupid Backassward Fatuous Idiocy.
Some clueless airhead who is either a lower-than-a-snake-belly liar, or has had all his or her taste buds surgically rendered [...]

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Srsly, ppl

At least a dozen years ago I volunteered for a Saturday airport emergency preparedness exercise. Involving a simulated plane crash, a real airline flight crew, real emergency responders from the airport and surrounding agencies, the Red Cross, you name it. I was one of the “passengers” and the organizers made us all up to look [...]

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Wonder if I can still change my travel plans

Thailand’s new foreign minister has described the recent hijacking of Bangkok’s airports as a lot of fun.
Seriously.
And like a fool I chose to reschedule my Thailand trip to late March 3 weeks ago. When because of all the FUN they were having over there in Bangkok – so much fun there were no flights going [...]

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Freecharge at the Denver airport

Denver International Airport (DEN) has several banks of charging stations for electronic devices (phones, notebooks, laptops, PDAs, cameras, whatever) located on the concourses (as opposed to the Main Terminal Building).  They are marked with “FreeCharge” signs. There’s no cost for their use. Here are a couple of pictures.

Details of where to find them:
A Gates aka [...]

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Skid, crash, tweet

Another news story covered via twitter. See http://twitter.com/2drinksbehind. The saga starts with the tweet that reads “Holy fucking shit I wasbjust in a plane crash!”
HFS, that’s my airport. God, I am so glad everyone got out of the plane. (Continental flight 1404 from Denver (DEN) to Houston (IAH), went off runway into ravine on takeoff [...]

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Today’s favorite tweet

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What font are you?

Find out here.
I’m Times New Roman.

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Gadgets that make you look like a jerk

Check out this MSNBC article.
I so agree!

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Today’s best tweet

From expat-erin. Whom I do not know, online or IRL:

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Not sure that this was in his contract

Jasper seems to be thinking about calling his agent to ask if the hat was part of the deal.

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Wish I knew who created this

Whoever you are – thank you!
EDITED to add this link to Thomas Friedman’s wise words about this very unwise government bailout of the Detroit Big Three automakers. What buggy whip factories were to the early 20th Century, Detroit’s auto industry is to the early 21st.
Full text of the above display add is below the fold [...]

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Ickiness

There’s a very good post in Slate about the lunatic fringe obsession with Barack Obama’s citizenship.
But still. After reading it I feel like I touched something icky. Or like I used to feel after conversations with a couple of people who were (diagnosed) schizophrenic. Like I had slipped a few bubbles off plumb myself.
(And please, [...]

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Rescheduled

Finally. The tour company called. They can’t get us into Thailand for our tour as scheduled (later this week), and now we’re scheduled to take that trip in March.
The political protesters are moving out of the Bangkok airports, which will eventually reopen for business as usual. I hope. I understand that PAD, the group that [...]

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