So it's 1:15 Monday morning CST and I am in a hotel in Houston, TX (well actually Humble as Bush Int'l airport is exactly in Houston) If anyone was wondering what it was going to take for me to post my 2nd entry to this blog after not posting for 4 months, well getting delayed by plane travel and not being able to sleep will do it. I was supposed to back in Ohio tonight or rather this morning sleeping on an air mattress at the Millers getting ready to head to work tomorrow but the weather had some other ideas.
I went to Baton Rouge this weekend for my Dale's wedding (Dale is my biological father for those of you that don't know) I took a 1/2 day on Friday and flew down Friday even to Houston, then onto New Orleans. In Houston we all got on the plane, then sat and sat (if you fly a lot you develop a good sense of when the wait is "not normal" and you just sit there waiting for the announcement to come) Sure enough... captain comes on and announces that the maintenance crew wants to change out one of the tires on the plane and then makes a bad joke about it being the fault of his co-pilot on the previous landing, then some other bad jokes about what we were going to be doing once we got airborne. I was not amused and neither were any of the other passengers. So they finally get the plane ready and we push away from the gate just as this huge thunderstorm opens up and starts dumping rain. So we're sitting on the tarmac and the engines stop and the captain announces that they're going to delay takeoffs for a while and we can feel free to use our cell phones and other portable electronic devices.
Random thing that makes you go hmmm #1: Speaking of portable electronic devices and their accepted "use" on flights, what is up with the safety cards in the seat pockets banning remote control vehicles.... is this a serious problem on airlines. I have always wondered this... the pictures with the circles and red lines through them are as follows no am/fm radios, no cell phones, no lighters and... no remote control vehicles. Were people back in the 70's bringing these things on planes and running them up and down the aisle??? I need answers!!!
#1.5: on portable electronic devices, why are IPODS banned during takeoff and landing? They don't emit any type of frequency that I know of but maybe some of you engineering types can help me out. Do they really pose a danger or are the airlines just behind the times? Anyhow, I figured out that if you have a window seat, which I almost always try to book; you can clip the IPOD into your pocket closest to the window, keep that earbud in and run the cord up behind your shoulder and the flight attendants are none the wiser and you can listen to music anytime you want. (FYI, so far none of my planes have crashed)
Speaking of music and to get to one of the subjects of my title, I had serious rental car envy this weekend. I had a Hyundai Sonata (sp?) that really wasn't anything super special except it had a dock for my IPOD, XM satellite radio and controls on the steering wheel to switch between the 2 and regular radio, volume controls and even a mute button to stop the noise if you need to talk on the phone or order at a drive through. I know for all of you who own newer vehicles no big deal right, but as for me and my 2003 Nissan Sentra, let's just say I know one feature that I definitely want on my next vehicle...
Random things that make you go hmmm... #2... this car or rather this 'traveling museum' as the handwritten cardboard written sign on the drivers side rear window proclaimed.
There are no words, so I won't even try.
Ok, so there was a wedding! I enjoyed seeing my grandparents, my Dad (Dale) who got married and my Uncle Glenn. The ceremony was very simple and thankfully short as I was roasting in my tux. (Here's some pics)
I met a bunch of random people that I'll probably never see again from Leda's family but I did get to meet her kids (Olivia, Sarah and Travis) which brings me to
Random things that make you go hmmm #3: Her oldest daughter Olivia is a little older than me and married to a guy who shares my birthday and grew up 2.5 hours away from me in Libby, Montana and went to a rival high school in Whitefish. (I know 2.5 hours is a long way for all of you who grew up in populated states that have over 1 million people) but Whitefish was the second closest division rival we had with the closest being a 2 hour drive and 2 of the 6 schools being 8 and 10 hours drives respectively. So for MT, that's practically like we were neighbors.
Well that's it... I'm finally wore out, I'll try not to let another 4 months past before I post again.
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