The deregulation was a big help, as it led to the non-existent security at Logan, but the total cooperation that was the procedure of the airlines, and the mindset of the passengers, made it possible.

Apparently another bored child of the upper class playing at revolution, just like Lenin, Che, bin Laden. A high estate tax would reduce this sort of thing.

it wasn’t just your blog, and the weirdness isn’t even confined to surfing the web, it was just that the pages full of smilies was the only fun part.

yeah, better living terrorism through chemistry! not. goodness only knows what security theater they’ll come up with next in response. sounds to me like ordinary citizens spontaneously turning into diy sky marshals when needed is probably the most efficient method yet devised.
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The problems of others may put my problems in perspective, but they aren’t consolation, as it would be nice to have a “race to the top”, rather than to the bottom.

Yes, it is always a major annoyances to realize you have been heading in the wrong direction, but I have found it is usually better to go ahead and make the necessary correction and wait for better times to analyze what went wrong, i.e. moderate the highs with knowledge, rather than deepening the lows.

Your course work should widen your options, and despite the best efforts of the corporations, this economy will pick up eventually and we will be able to begin to put things right. Australia is in a better position to move ahead than the US.

After the latest failed attempt to attack an airliner to the US, I think my flying days are done, and a week in a small raft put me off sailing forever, so I am off long distance travel that can’t be accomplished by a land vehicle. They will impose more stupid rules on airline travel to appear to be doing something, that will make the process seem more and more like a kidnapping than transportation.

Hipparchia, that sounds like the CSS didn’t load, which occasionally happens, and makes the presentation weird. I haven’t changed anything yet, but I realize that the event is merely another justification to do something you have probably wanted to do for a while, so go for it. I notice that they latest attack was again in your bailiwick, a failed chemical reaction. Another attempt at a binary explosive that failed.

It won’t be long before the process is identified, along with a reasoned dissertation on why you can’t do it on an airplane, but no one in power will pay any attention.

i have no clue what’s going on with my computer but when i first fired up the internet today, the only thing that loaded from your blog was all the smilies and the names of the commenters. i think some of headers in the sidebars might have loaded too, but basically it was blank page after blank page with nothing but smilies. fortunately kryten uses lots of smilies, so some pages were actually worth looking at!

heading out now to price replacement computers for my day-after-christmas adventures.
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I really hope things improve m8. If it’s any consolation, my good days are over tomorrow (which starts in a couple hours), and the stress comes back. *shrug* I’m going to be busy as hell for the next few months. I don’t think two days of peace and quiet are going to anywhere near enough to be honest.

Same old… we just have to do what we can do. 🙂

At least I have an end in sight. Now if I could just convince the World and it’s assorted a**h*les to FO and leave me alone for a couple months, I may just have a chance to get back on my feet again. This course I just wasted 4+ months on was a bad idea in hindsight. Typical. I wasn’t given much choice, or any time to think about it. Anyway… If I get a decent chance, then maybe, I can help out a few friends get their lives back. *shrug* We’ll see.

Sorry if I sounded a bit put out, but in addition to everything else, at the last minute I got stuck watching a friend’s house, because the person who was supposed to do it got snowed in and won’t be back. My friend doesn’t especially want to make the trip, but he is transporting all of the presents as he’s driving, while everyone else is flying, so he can’t not go.

It seems like plans have been crashing and burning this Christmas.

Fortunately I cooked a ham, so there isn’t a lot of fussing as everything was shoved into the oven, albeit at different times.

At the moment I’m dealing with Ringo acting like a neck pillow because she decided to go outside and chilled her buns.

If I had a big furry coat I might feel better about the weather.

I take your point, and it didn’t take long for me to clear the debris from the yard, but it wasn’t exactly what I had planned for Christmas day.

If I sound grumpy, it is because it is cold again, and I don’t like the damp cold and wind. I get annoyed when I have to put up with thunderstorms and cold.

happy merry joyous whatever!
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The situation is always the same, rain that changes to sleet, and then snow at sundown, and the evening rush hour. The wet roads freeze and the snow lands on top, making the roads skating rinks.

You are standing behind your cruiser with the light rack blazing away laying out flares to warn of the accident ahead and you see the car coming down the road entirely too fast for conditions, and watch the slide begin as the driver finally realizes there’s a problem.

It’s time for the diving roll to the side of the road, on the other side of the ditch as you wait to hear the crunch of metal that means you will have to wait in the cold for another agency to come out to take the accident report on your unit.

Oh, yeah, wonderful memories. 😉

Well, at least the rain is over, and there was only a minor tornado to the west yesterday.