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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Ah... right. Well, we can work with that. Wednesday evening would be easier, but we can work with Thursday.
I'll hafta call you the second night so we can see where we'll stand. It's possible I'm underestimating how far we'll make it in a day - or overestimating, though I think that's less likely.
We'll make this work somehow! ;-)
Yes, don't panic! At the worst you can pick me up at school and I can head back in time for my second class.
Yep. It'll work.
Ugh...time is crawling. I hafta go pick up Van-sama soon. Had new spark plugs installed and the oil changed. Next week he's getting his tires swapped.
Time crawls here, as well. I guess I have to get out of here soon. Have to meet with a professor first.
Have a good weekend... don't stress out about anything. I'll see if we can't improve the weather before you get out here.
Meh. Went to demonstrate working-ness of a program, only to find that my computer was completely and totally screwed up as far as running Java code goes. So I begged off. Now I get to spend three hours trying to figure out what's wrong...
Hi All! I made it!
Mr. DarcyCat is happy....the neighbors got rid of their dog. Miss Emily had a tussle with a couple of dogs...
...and we now have a restaurant called "Nana's Kitchen."
Hey there... well... I'm calling this week over.
I'm at the airport. [sip]
Our #1 son arrived home late last night, but has to leave early evening on Sunday. At least I won't have to mail him his Chocolate Easter Bunny! ;o)
Have a safe trip!
Had a sorta amusing experience with the TSA today. Entering the security area, you gotta show your ID and boarding pass... so I hand mine over to this little grandma type lady. She's nice and friendly enough, but english is clearly a second language.
She looks at my pass and my ID, and starts chattering with the other lady there and showing her my stuff... pointing at something... I'm just standing there quizzically, wondering what the heck the problem could possibly be. I've been through this checkpoint about a hundred times in my life.
"Your ID says 'David' and your boarding pass says 'Dave'." She says.
I blink. "Yes, that's right."
"Its under a different name."
I blink again... "No... its the same thing. James... Jim. William, Bill... David, Dave... " I look at the other lady hoping for some support, and she says "Oh... that's OK. Dave is a nickname for David. That's OK."
But the poor little lady is flummoxed by it all, and waves me over to the Supervisor. I go to the supervisor and say "she's questioning whether Dave and David are the same thing..." and show him my stuff. His eyes roll back in his head.
"Oh, jeez... " he says, and escorts me back up the line and passes me through, has a little conference with the lady. All returns to normal.
Then the metal detector decided it didn't like me. But that's another story.
I'm not annoyed by any of it, more just amused. I think I'm a very patient and understanding person. I just chuckled at it all.
In fact... all else equal... as ridiculous as it was, that lady did exactly what she should have done. Something happened that she didn't understand and she didn't just blow it off but she passed it up the chain. How somebody can fail to learn that Dave and David are the same as James and Jim is a curiousity, but it is not relevant to the process and procedure.
Anyway... that's my day so far.
Thanks! I hope to... but you just never know about these things.
Heh, I had a five-minute misunderstanding this morning; someone asked for a "power cord" but what he actually wanted was an extension cord... English as a second language....
Yah. Some things just don't xlate well.
nu ma nu ma iei
Got through the airport okay.
Hehehe....just be glad you're not a Palestinian named "Ahmed." We've got a Palestinian (originally...I think he's a US citizen now, he's been in the country long enough.) Our Mass Specs are from a Canadian company and everytime he tries to get or send replacement parts to Canada, he gets Customs and the "authorities" riled up. I don't think he likes Tom Ridge much. On second thought....maybe we should have given the parts return job to the Indian guy. :)
hehe... well, I was thinkin' that if I were in her spot and somebody came through with ID for "Mohammed" and the boarding pass was "Mohave" I'd do the same thing.
:-)
Uh... what you said. :-)
Well... gotta go. Plane gonna board. Later.
Hehehe....I told him maybe he should change his name to "Joe Smith."
heh. In high school, we had a guy on the tennis team named "Samusrikitat Sarusthikiamus" or something pretty close to that. We asked if it was OK just to call him "Sam". He was OK with that.
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