From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #238 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, December 24 2006 Volume 11 : Number 238 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: Denver blizzard check-in ["Keith Stansell" Subject: RE: Alloy: Denver blizzard check-in I guess I fared a bit better than some. I knew it would be bad when I was getting "all circuits are busy" messages at 2:00 AM Thursday. It took constant hitting of redial to get though to Frontier, but I finally did get through yesterday at 3:00 PM. I'm on the Tuesday morning flight. So I won't be with family for Christmas, but at least I'll get to see them next week. I told my brother that they better save me some of Christmas dinner. My next door neighbors invited me over for Christmas dinner on Monday, so all is not a loss. The worst part is (besides meeting up with Melissa for lunch) is that I wont have as much time to do a bit of sightseeing in DC. I've never been there before, so I was hoping to play the tourist before driving down to North Carolina to be with family at my brother's house. - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Jordan Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:54 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: Denver blizzard check-in I'm so glad all our Colorado folks are okay! I was thinking of y'all this morning as I boarded my Chicago flight. The plane was packed like a sardine can (or should that be "spam tin"?) After departing Chicago, the jet was bound for St. Louis, with a final destination of Denver. Everyone gave an evil chuckle when the first officer said, "Welcome aboard United Flight 1197, with stops in Chicago, St. Louis... and, theoretically, Denver..." I listened to a report from Denver on NPR en route to BWI, with a very sorrowful-sounding Frontier rep who said that, in some cases now, the first available flight for those who got screwed during the snow would be a week from now. Keith, I sincerely hope you're not among those numbers!! Listened to the Sole Inhabitant version of "Flying North" as we took off. This was my first flight since the blindness started, and now even the clouds look different to me. Not bad necessarily... just different. I was anxious about the flight - a very unusual feeling for me. But my mantra held true, and all was fine. Coming in over Lake Michigan, I had to listen to it again - the sky was so amazingly gorgeous - brilliant blues and clouds so perfect, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish painting. Below it, the lake had an almost unnaturally bright green sea hue. Had we been in the Caribbean, it would have seemed normal. But Chicago? In December? That beautiful, almost reverent new start to "Flying North" was perfect as we came in toward the shore. Of course, as soon as we landed, the skies turned dark and brooding, the "Lake Effect" wind whipped up and the reality of another Midwestern Christmas kicked in! Keith, I'm so sorry Mother Nature decided to screw up our lunch meeting! Hopefully, it won't be another ten years before we meet up again. :-) Off to bed. Have to be at the Field Museum at (god help us) 8:30 in the morning to see the King Tut exhibit. Normally, I'm a sucker for All Things Egyptian, but I've seen all these goodies before and I would adore a nice long sleep in a comfy hotel bed instead... Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com In a message dated 12/21/06 1:15:37 PM, keith@stansell.com writes: > > Here are some around my house and of my neighbor and his dog: > http://www.keithstansell.com/blizzard/ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #238 ****************************