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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Yah... OK... just make sure you allow lots of time for the shuttle and pickup. Maybe its just me, but I hate missing flights. I usually try to show up about three hours early for flights these days.
I'm not a white-knuckler over very many things... but that's one of them. Probly stems from the time I missed my flight in SEA cuz I got stuck in traffic for an extra hour.
If you have an e-ticket, I think A West has those kiosk checkin things like everybody else. Pretty darn cool. Security lines on a thursday afternoon should be fairly light. Wear slip-on shoes and no metal. Don't try to carry everything on, but go ahead and check bags. Piece of cake.
I'm really bugged about the no-lighters thing that starts on Apr 1. April fools? It's the dumbest thing.
The light thing is silly.... We're taking the 11:00 shuttle will get us there in plenty of time :~D
I am the same way with flights... I just pack an extra book and wait for a couple hours more. But then I don't travel much so I'm not blase enough.
Gah, have I mentioned I hate travelling? ;~D
Well good night, all. Time to go hit the couch with the wife. After all, she hit the couch with me the other night. ;~D
http://macleans.auto123.com/en/info/news/prototype,view,Ford.spy?artid=38061#
Oh fertheluvva... It appears that Shelby is doing a version of the 05 Mustang after all. There was some talk that there wouldn't be a SVT Cobra version just yet.... but... just damn...
550 Horsepower. Sure, its supercharged, but its the same 4.6L (~289) smallblock V8. How the heck do they ~do~ that? Are these people out of their minds? How do you get the wheels to stop spinning? Gotta take off in second, or what?
heh. Though... I don't think I'll be getting one, just yet. I just don't think I can be trusted with that sort of horsepower. I've already been irresponsible with what I had before... :-)
I get a kick out of teasing my pregnant friend about her having to trade in her mustang for a minivan... I don't think anyone under thirty should have a mustang, you have to drive cheap cars for a while first.
But I don't want one. I want a Porsche.
I keep getting drawn over to porsche.com for some reason.
I'm not sure what it is.
I mean... heck, they're only 140K... may as well get two. They're small.
[yikes]
Niters bear... :-)
As with all the "good little nazis", they love the idea in the abstract, but don't want to be around when it really happens. That's why they will hire more judges and bureaucrats.
I'll keep y'all in my prayers for a safe trip! Have fun!
Sounds like a Teacake to me! ;o)
I saw that on the news last night. It looked sort of out of place in this day and time, seeing those shipwrecked sails leaning over toward the water.
That is a superior graphic.
Understood, Mister Mag. I'm just horrified at the Shiavo case. We're down to a point now where there are no longer any good choices, it seems. I think maybe the good choices were all years ago. Now its down to bad, or really bad, and please don't ask me which is which because I'm not sure that I know. There's much that I want to believe and much more yet that I'm afraid to believe.
I think maybe Krauthammer really nailed it today:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/welcome.shtml
There's something wrong with the law in Florida, if it has no mechanism to challenge the guardianship of a spouse when that spouse has a conflict of interest. It would appear that such a thing was just never contemplated by those that drafted the law.
It does seem odd... doesn't it... but that same thing happened hundreds of times especially off the coast of WA/OR... its an unforgiving place.
It was bad enough to see it awash in the surf on what appeared to be a sandy bottom, but it was heartbreaking to see it smacking into the rocks of that jetty. That's gonna leave a mark, and worse. There's no way to hit rocks like that and not do just horrendous damage to the sheathing. Just makes you sick to see it.
It made me think of stories of whole towns along the shores that waited for shipwrecks, then plundered the boats.
Well, sure... but at least they rescued the people too... :-)
Astoria, OR (on the mouth of the Columbia River) was probably built on plunder... being that it got the name "graveyard of the Pacific" pretty early on. Dreadful place, that.
The Columbia river bar is a nasty, nasty place.
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