A US Airways flight left San Antonio, Texas today bound for Phoenix. On takeoff one of the front tires blew, so they circled the San Antonio airport for an hour to burn off fuel before making an emergency landing. Everything went fine, the landing was uneventful and the passengers were put on other flights to PHX.
Why not burn off the extra fuel by heading toward Phoenix and making the landing here? It was a flat tire, so it posed no threat to flight, just landing. Seems all they did was waste fuel and passengers’ time.
They found another body here. This time it was the whole body, not just the leg. Somebody stuffed a woman down a vertical drainage pipe out by one of the canals. Times like this I have to remind myself this is a city of 4.2 million people. In a place this size you have to expect the occasional body showing up. Now parts of bodies...that’s bizarre.
I spend an hour or two each day working on the cabinet doors. I have at least two I have to remake because somehow the frames racked (twisted). The current step is squaring out the corners of the dado on the back side that receives the bead board paneling, something that has to be done by hand, one corner at a time. Tedious. I’m not going to get these done by the time I leave for Seattle next Friday.
Somebody nearby as you read this? Then go to this web site to get ready:
Rimshot
Repeat the following and then hit the red button:
- What do you call a woman with one leg? A: Ilene
- What do you call a man with no arms and no legs on your front porch? A: Matt
- What do you call a man with no arms or legs in your pool? A: Bob
- How do you change a dishwasher into a snow blower? A: Give her a shovel.
GMAC, which is GM's financing arm, is getting another $3.8 billion in govt. bailout money to keep it from going under.
They told us some of those big financial institutions were too big to fail. Unless I've missed it they haven't done anything about that. We gave them a LOT of money but they're still too big. Why doesn't the govt. force them to break up into smaller units? They did that with Ma Bell years ago. If the President can fire the president of GM this would seem to be within his power.
I'm turning into a fan of Skype. Paul and I use it for our weekly conversation as he helps me proofread year two of the curriculum. He doesn't have a camera built into his laptop but Skype works great for just audio. The sound quality is excellent and it's not like a cell phone where only one voice can go through at a time. If we talk over each other everything is still audible. It's hands-free, too, so we can have the pages in front of us and mark them up as we work (and eat candy at the same time).
This morning we had another Skype video chat with Bonnie and got to see Maggie and Drew, both of whom were born after we left Michigan.
Best part, Skype is free!
That's all I got, at least for tonight. See you tomorrow, the last day of the decade. Whoo-hoo.
1 comment:
Why should the government get involved and force these bgig companies to split up? Why should the government get involved and give them money. Why shouldn't the government just let them fail, regardless of their size? Americans have become too accustomed to not facing the consequences of their actions and then are doomed to repeat them later on. Pity.
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