It's wicked crowded at JFK. Took over half an hour to get through security.
Yowza. Maybe I should have said that travelling in goyim country is the absolute best. Missoula is delightful.
OTOH, the JetBlue terminal has free wifi! Small blessings, y'all.
No more masturbating to catwoman.
Seriously, my parents have left town on Christmas every year since I graduated high school and their travel schedule was no longer bound by my school breaks. The flight crews are happier, passengers are happier, the airports are emptier (excepting hideous weather delays, but that's just part of winter travel from the Midwest). Traveling on Christmas is the way things should be.
I really don't want to go to work tomorrow.
Is the Missoula airport ever crowded?
6: I'm talking about O'Hare, which gets quite nastily crowded on virtually every winter day except Christmas.
This often works for Thanksgiving day, too. Once I figured it out I told my folks that if they wanted me to come visit for thanksgiving I was flying on Thursday morning, not Wednesday evening. It made my life much easier and, going west, I'd get there well in time for dinner anyway.
If you're willing to travel on Christmas or on New Years Eve day, you can often get cheap airline tickets too. But getting a cab home on New years' eve is a bitch.
Didn't someone propose a religion where all the holidays were offset from the actual holidays by a day or two? Thus for christmas on the 27th you can travel on the 25th, buy all your presents and holiday-themed things at a discount on the 26th, etc.
10: A lot of Puerto Ricans exchange gifts on Three Kings Day, so they at least can and do take advantage of the discounts. Maybe the flying, too. Not sure.
The drive back from Santa Fe was nice and easy, with no weather trouble.
14: I learned today at dinner that my brother has several new tattoos, including one where his neck meets his chest, which says in all caps "DADDY". He is not, in fact, a daddy AFAIK.
Hilary Clinton has a tattoo? Cool.
15: That would be especially cool if he was one of those guys whose beard merges with his chest hair.
18: Late reports are indicating they may have not recovered my mom's jaw from the floor.
The one time I traveled on Christmas Day, the travel experience was, indeed, remarkably painless. However, the welcome home was so enthusiastic that we got careless, leading to ectopic pregnancy, emergency surgery, emergency surgery to fix the mistakes of the first ER surgeon, considerable emotional distress all around, and (with other causes to be sure) the eventual dissolution of my marriage.
Moral: don't get carried away.
(OK, this is a real downer of a Christmas story, but you did say "have its babies", it's not like I'm not going to remember this little incident.)
Jesus. Sorry to hear about that; how long ago was this?
21: December 25, 2003, a date which will live in personal infamy.
That's rather a worrying note, as I'll be visiting the boyfriend tomorrow.
23: Just make sure that at least one of you remembers that every sperm is sacred on a mission from God to mess up your lives given the least opportunity.
(Seriously, after having had several years to think about it, I have not moved from the conclusion that if I'd been a real man I'd have thought enough about the consequences to act differently. [And you can take all adjustments for the inherently sexist features of concepts like "real man" as made.])
I should stop now before I got so maudlin that I have to get drunk and call my ex.
Heebie wants to have Christmas travel's babies, yet she's actually carrying Jammies' child. Scandal!
Lot of people at CDG this morning. But then it's the 26th.
This is why having phimosis is so great. If I lost myself in the moment and try to have unprotected sex, bam, excruciating pain beyond belief. Only with a condom is sex physically possible.
Just in from Jewish Christmas. Milk (very good!), Chinese food in San Gabriel (very good!) and Valkyrie (not very good!) with my new wife, my new friend and my recently broken-up old friend. They seemed to enjoy each other. God bless us everyone. And 28, when did you start being presidential about that?
jeez barack, that sounds awful. sorry nymous too, but happy boxing day to everyone! get out there and box!
YMMV of course, but I can report that our experience of using Wikipedia articles for "Dictionary" worked very well. A few minor tweaks helped such as allowing the chooser to disqualify a more well-known meaning/reference in favor of a more appropriate secondary one. (We found articles by hitting the random article link until you found a good one or sometimes following a promising lead in one of those articles). Two elements that were notable:
1) The person chose how to gloss the article, so you had a different target in tone/wording. This could be viewed as either a feature or a bug; I thought it helped level things for playing with a range of ages.
2) Just announced the name of the article, not any further categorization, so you had people vs. movies vs. concepts vs. places etc in the same round. (Tord Grip, for instance, worked well (though probably not so much in England or Sweden).)
And I now know that Codri is the name of the forests that grow in the hilly part of Moldova.
I'm guessing you don't go for the condoms advertising that they feel like nothing at all.
Agree completely with the post. Aside from a slightly delayed departure and a somewhat more delayed arrival due to headwinds en route, that was the easiest air travel experience I've had in a while. Thank you for your forbearance, weather gods. Please show the same courtesy to the members of the party who were too sick to travel yesterday and are now scheduled for Sunday arrival.
Oh enough with the presidentiality, PK. We all know it's you.
32: No one followed the proposed Web 2.0 extension: If the real definition is not the top vote getter, the article is edited to reflect the one that got the most votes.