My eyes just about rolled out of my head. Of all the MSCM crazinesses, the War On Christmas may just be the one that makes me go "Whuh?" the most.

Yeah, Christianity has survived a couple of thousand years of tremendous infighting and occasional outright hostilitiy. I'm pretty sure it can take a couple of "Happy Holidays" before it shrivels and dies of it.

I love turbulence. I go "ooh! turbies!" and tighten the buckle and try not to roll my eyes at people who are getting a little rediculous* about it. People pay good money for this at amusement parks, this is a freebie! It's delightfully random. There's nothing to HIT.

Once when I was over the Andes in the middle of the night our plane did a sharp dip to the left, sharp dip to the right, sharp dip to the left and then righted its self. Really quick. The whole thing lasted maybe five seconds. It was SO COOL. I think I was one of the only awake people on the plane (so nobody was upset). I assume it was some sort of updraft off the mountains, but I sometimes picture the pilots acting like something out of a Farside cartoon.


*there is a distinction in my mind between "a little freaked" and "rediculous"

Sure, Cook's Illustrated. I'll get right on that.

ita, I had the same reaction.

But what I really came to post was PRETTY PRETTY SNOW! YAAAAAAAAAY SNOW!

I wish I had taken to day off for the wedding. My sister's home, my mom and dad are home, my brother's on his way home. And I'm stuck at work, with a boo-boo lip, being pouty, with only my ramen to look forward to.

Maybe I'll go have a smokey-treat and make a list of something.

Of all the MSCM crazinesses, the War On Christmas may just be the one that makes me go "Whuh?" the most.

Also, I mean, Christmas is not that major a Christian holiday! Go fight a frelling war on Easter, would you?

Of all the MSCM crazinesses, the War On Christmas may just be the one that makes me go "Whuh?" the most.

Hey it's just "Happy Hollidays" now, but let that go unchecked and the next thing you know it will just end up all commercialized.

I assume it was some sort of updraft off the mountains, but I sometimes picture the pilots acting like something out of a Farside cartoon.

Yeah, wind blowing over mountains causes turbulent air downwind.

My fave story is when a jet hit turbulence and the captain put on the seatbelt sign. A woman got up to use the bathroom. She was told to take her seat and she refused. She got verbally abusive with the flight crew and continued to the bathroom. Then the plane hit some monster turbulence, and she was thrown up against the ceiling and back to the floor. She broke her leg badly.

She sued the airline. (Dunno what happened.)

The snow is already changing to rain.

I have little plane fear since I figure I will die if things go wrong, and I can't save myself.

See, this is exactly why I fear planes more than cars. If I'm at the wheel, I have at least some control over the outcome. Also, while I'm hardly an automotive expert, I at least know enough to judge if my car is running well or not, and I know when it got its last tune-up and so on. With planes, I don't have any of that. And that Alaska Air crash destroyed a lot of my trust in the system. It's a loss of control, and I hate that.

The snow is already changing to rain.

We still have snow by the UN

The rain'll get there. It's stuck in a jam at Lexington and 3rd.