Thanks to all of you who birthday wished me. I did not eat cake, because it is not a food I enjoy. Instead I ate a whole lot of cheese fries, a great big hotdog, more cheese fries, eggs and bacon and mozzarella sticks. Not at the same time. I also got a white rose arrangement delivery (my favorite flower), the collecible original Giles figurine, the first season of Buffy on DVD, cool retro printed plates ad candles and a dandy candle lantern. And I got to go bowling (where much of the greasy food happened) and beat my sister every. single. time. which was of course, quite fun. Oh, and watch a guy who passed out drunk at the bowling alley. While BOWLING.

Twas neat. Good times. I love my birthday!


Over the Rhine is in a Jon Favreau film!

So....guess what day it is?

*GRIN*

Over the Rhine is in a Jon Favreau film!

Yoda how do I logon to OCF without using telnet? I'm running Win2k. Any help would be appreciated.

Never mind I found a free ssh client here.

The airlines allow 'carry ons' cause their 'busy' business customers demand them. But I strongly agree that those huge 'carry ons' are ridiculous. If they'd reduce the size to a small duffle bag and make every one else check everything (thus a briefcase and/or a purse is 'it'), they could load faster and make everyone much happier.

What I absolutely hate about traveling and carrying around heavy bags is that I always end up with burst blood vessels in my shoulders. This has happened a lot in the past few years, with both my bookbag and my duffel bag. I suppose part of the problem is that on these occasions I've been wearing sleeveless tops, but still...It's really annoying to have all those little red spots on my shoulders, in two stripes approximately the size of my bookbag straps.

really get why they lowered the amount of allowable weight? Is it so they have more cargo space or fuel economy? I thought they wanted more travelers yet they keep adding rules to make it more difficult.

Squitters! those darned airlines.

My wife was bringing a whole lot of teaching resources with her back to Singapore some time ago and had texts in her carry-on luggage. They stopped her for being over the 5kg limit and so they made her dump some. Luckily her parents hadn't left the airport as her other luggage had already been loaded on the plane!

"Million to one chances happen nine times out of ten">

I went over by 6 pounds once, took out my laptop and it went down to 72, and the lady just let me go. She said the fin-(ahem) fee would have been 400 dollars if i hadn't done something. I looked at her blankly, said "ok" and then just figured it was my laptop. I carried my little bookbag plus my damn laptop (bless its soul, its no longer with us-I loved her so)and a huge Stich (from lilo and stich)..I looked like a bag lady. Not to mention the backache the next day....I have a a year old's back at the age of 20. Wonderful.

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Karma Police

...other than that flying into Reagan National in D.C. can be very hair-raising if you're unprepared, as it tends to look like you barely cleared the perimeter fence on your way in.

So, a Friday song...

Mm ba ba de
Um bum ba de
Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da - that's o.k.
It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets
Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
O.k.
Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap
People on streets - ee da de da de
People on streets - ee da de da de da de da
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher high high
Pressure on people - people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
but it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

Not sure if it'll still work, but a friend told me about this trick. You need at least two people to make it work. It's a way to check more than 2 bags and not pay extra.

Person A goes to the 'curbside check-in' (not sure if they still exist these days) and checks four bags using his and Person B's tickets. Meanwhile Person B is out of sight with the other 4 bags. Then you rip the luggage tags out of the ticket folder, put them in your pocket and Person A and B get in the ticket line and check 2 bags each.

Ta dah!

I love it when people just lay it down all honest-like.

When my bag was over 50 pounds on Alaska, the agent handed me a carboard box and I just dumped 20 pounds of stuff into it, she taped it up and tagged it, and away I went!

I'm glad I don't hate flying. It would ruin every Christmas for the past five years.