As of now, Mom is planning to fly out to California with Georgia Brother and his wife to visit ExArmy Brother and his family the first week of May. I just checked Southwest, and it looks like I can get a round trip to Sacramento for under $200. I can't imagine work would raise any objections to my taking off (one of the undoubted pluses of working with hospital chaplains), and I have the money, so I think I should go. I'll just wait till Monday to buy the ticket so I can talk to work and make sure ExArmy Brother doesn't mind another relative showing up at his house.

Aww, that's awful about your mom, Susan. But definitely sounds like a good plan to go see her and your brother and all.

I just found out that the ultra budget airline Skybus has folded and therefore we cannot go visit my sister next weekend.

Dang! I was really hoping to get supercheap direct tickets to a thing in Columbus in a few months. Sigh.

So sorry to hear that, Susan. Much ~ma all around to your family.

In unfortunate news, I just found out that the ultra budget airline Skybus has folded and therefore we cannot go visit my sister next weekend. Bah!

I just ran into a friend's girlfriend who was planning a trip to SC from New Hampshire. Got up this morning to find a sign on the hotel desk saying that her flight was postponed until NEVER.

She seems pretty easygoing about it. "Matter of time."

ION, the word sanguine does not mean what I want it to mean. Which is annoying. I believe I must have heard it used incorrectly at the moment I became enamored with it and have steadfastly refused, since then, to accept the truth of its not being what I want it to be-ness.

This whinge brought to you by the letters P, M & S, with not so much of the P.

What is that you want "sanguine" to mean?

amych I wanted to call to cancel because it is raining and I am a chicken, but mr. flea is on the phone and mocked me when I suggested it. What do you think?

What is that you want "sanguine" to mean?

Since you asked!

I want it to mean 'good naturedly accepting.' Turns out naturedly is not a word either, so I'm losing all around today.

Still, sort of 'relaxed in the blood'. As in, not blood boiling, nor cold blooded, but tepid with a smile blood.

eta: Kind of like Jason Dohring's character on Moonlight...in a way even I find difficult to understand. Blood with a boyish smile.

That's not really wrong, bonny. Sanguine can mean cheerful and optimistic, and is usually used in phrases like "He is sanguine about the results." It comes from the old doctrine of humours, like choleric and melancholic.

I feel bad for anyone who took skybus somewhere and now is stuck trying to find a way home, though!!

yes, we were relieved that we were at least at home when this happened... could have been worse, and with us and Skybus... it has been.