I am actually flying this Xmas for the first time since all the liquids restrictions were put in place, and I'm reading the list of things that one can/can't bring along and it is b-a-n-a-n-a-s.
Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Dec 13, 2007 7:47:49 am PST #7126 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Kat - Dec 13, 2007 7:47:55 am PST #7127 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I like flying, except for the airport inconvenience and I don't even mind that too too much. Love driving, even long distances. Love trains. The only transport I hate= bus.
I just got ROYALLY FUCKED by my job. Apparently the 6 weeks I took as maternity leave were paid incorrectly. And I owe them $4000. Which is better than the $12000 they were convinced I owed at some point.
But I basically feel like I just got fucked up the ass and that I will not be able to pay for childcare next year. What I owe them is equivalent to 30 weeks of childcare. Interestingly, that's about how much childcare I use.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2007 7:49:13 am PST #7128 of 10001
brillig
I think the only snow emergency Utah would call is if the Mother of All Avalanches was coming down off the mountains and aiming for downtown. And I'd think we'd already know the Snowpocalypse had arrived.
juliana - Dec 13, 2007 7:49:48 am PST #7129 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Now, if someone else is doing the canyon driving? I love it! They're so pretty, especially as you're heading to the Pacific Coast Highway.
books trip to drive ita up and down PCH
I love driving Highway 1. I'm learning to love it on the bike, but I'm still kind of white-knuckly on the grips.
Sue - Dec 13, 2007 7:50:04 am PST #7130 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I love airports. Esp. with moving sidewalks.
I just got ROYALLY FUCKED by my job. Apparently the 6 weeks I took as maternity leave were paid incorrectly. And I owe them $4000. Which is better than the $12000 they were convinced I owed at some point.
Well fuck.
Susan W. - Dec 13, 2007 7:50:55 am PST #7131 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm sorry, Kat.
Trudy Booth - Dec 13, 2007 7:51:08 am PST #7132 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
In sum: people who like control fear flying and like driving; people who like to not be responsible like flying and fear driving. Interesting.
Or there is just statistics. I know precisely one person who has been killed in a plane crash. I wish I could say the same for cars.
Of course, I enjoy both and fear neither.
Scrappy - Dec 13, 2007 7:51:31 am PST #7133 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am so sorry, Kat. That sucks.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2007 7:51:52 am PST #7134 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I love driving Highway 1. I'm learning to love it on the bike, but I'm still kind of white-knuckly on the grips.
I drove on Highway 1 once North of San Francisco. I was driving a '72 Mercury Monterey, which couldn't corner as well as modern cars. Once or twice I pulled over to let all the cars behind me get past. And I smelled burning rubber once.
I'll have to drive Highway 1 again in a more nimble car....
-t - Dec 13, 2007 7:53:57 am PST #7135 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like flying. I hate the going through security and waiting around in airports, and being squished in with other passengers is annoying, but the flying part is cool.
I like driving long distances better than short distances. Short runs are all watching for pedestrians and making the correct turns and often come with deadlines. Long runs are freeways and often not much traffic and just enough stuff I need to pay attention to keep my brain occupied enough for the rest of my brain to do some thinking.
Trains are also great as long as I am not in a hurry. I love having a train station half a mile from my house. I could walk down, hop on a train and end up in New York or Chicago or anywhere, really. This tickles my fancy in a way that cars and planes do not, somehow.