I've just returned from a few days visiting with a friend in Oregon, a friend who relocated to her home town after living in the desert for more than half her life. I loved being in an area where everything is green and moisture abounds. The flight up left on time, took the scheduled two hours, and was easy-peasy.
Then, it was time to return home.
We arose at 6 AM to be ready by the 7 AM leave the house time, arrived at the airport at 8 AM for the scheduled 9 AM flight. Breezed through my second full-body scan, but was chastised for leaving my cosmetic bag inside my luggage, instead of in a grey check bin. Got to the gate and found out that our departure was delayed an hour, so I could have enjoyed a second cup of coffee before leaving for the airport; instead, I began what was going to be a long day of sitting and waiting to leave for the return flight home.
That turned out to be the good news as the departure time went from 9 AM to 10 AM to 11 AM to 12:30 PM and finally landed on 2 PM. Yep, really. I sat in the airport from 8 AM until our 2 PM departure, and it's a very small regional airport, so not much to do except listen to all the people talking on their cell phones! Do people realize how much personal information they share with complete strangers during these calls?
To their credit, Allegiant apologized effusively and often for the delay, and brought in pizza for everyone inconvenienced by the delay, but that doesn't cancel out sitting for 6 hours before a scheduled flight departs for its destination.
It's a curse that has plagued me since I began flying to different destinations. I can hardly wait for the flights to China and back home this summer. I could end up spending my vaca in an airport!
Success is not determined so much by the position one has reached in life, but more so by the obstacles one has overcome while attempting to succeed. --Unknown
Vegetation
What happens when one forgets the basket of onions one left on top of the 'fridge
Soaring above the competition is all in how you see it.
"... there are great perils in rising too quickly in any organization. Hawks may soar, but chipmunks don't get sucked into jet engines."
--Joseph Finder, Paranoia, p.183
--Joseph Finder, Paranoia, p.183
Metal Sculpture
photo by Monique
Ignorance is so not Bliss
As Issac Asimov said, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." (Jan. 21, 1980).
Ranger
Our little guy grows up
Another perspective
If you think you're a leader but no one is following you, you're just taking a walk.
When Mia shares her floor cushion,
you know the dogs have bonded.
Every Day is Mother's Day
He asked, "What's your mother going to say when you tell her?"
The round black face screwed up in astonishment. "I ain' gonna tell her. That'd be fucked up. You never win no arguments 'gainst yo' mother." --Jeffery Deaver, The Broken Window (266)
The round black face screwed up in astonishment. "I ain' gonna tell her. That'd be fucked up. You never win no arguments 'gainst yo' mother." --Jeffery Deaver, The Broken Window (266)
Perspective on Self
"But with adults I see absolutely no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves." --The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, p 141-42
I'm Watching You ...
but you can't see me!
Explaining the Moment
"You know ... sometimes you do things you don't really understand. You just have to do them. Sense or no sense--it really doesn't matter much." --Scott Turow, Innocent, p 64.
Albert Einstein on teaching ...
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
Blog Archive
from The Innocent, by author Harlan Coben
"The world is neither cruel nor joyous. It is simply random, full of particles hurtling, chemicals mixing and reacting. There is no real order. There is no preordained cursing of the evil and protecting of the righteous.
Chaos, baby, It's all about chaos."
Chaos, baby, It's all about chaos."
Spotting Daisy
... casing the neighborhood from the front room window.
Confucius said ...
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
About Me
- Liza
- I am the person who lives inside my soul; I just have to figure out who she is and where she's been all these years.
Please, don't disturb me: I'm reading a book
"I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page."
--Naomi Shihab Nye
--Naomi Shihab Nye
Primary Motivation: an unread book
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." --Kathleen Norris
George Orwell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Life Lesson
One of the things I noticed in all of this was the simultaneous delicacy and brutality of the scalpel. How much people can hurt, the ways they hurt, and how sometimes they have to get hurt even more so they'll get better in the long run.
--John Sandford, Preface, Eyes of Prey
--John Sandford, Preface, Eyes of Prey
A Book Makes Any Day a Better Day
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."--Charles W. Eliot
Quotation
The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious -- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe -- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others--some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
--Atticus Finch, closing remarks to the jury, To Kill a Mockingbird
--Atticus Finch, closing remarks to the jury, To Kill a Mockingbird
1 comment:
Before you mentioned the airline, I was thinking that it sounded like my Dad's flight on Allegiant a few months ago when he was delayed 6h. They are inexpensive and good when their planes are working, but when they're not, you're pretty much screwed. I flew with them in November to Florida, and knew they were a nickel and dime operation, but the size restriction on carry-on bags under your seat (the only free carry-on, since they charge for the overhead bin) seemed unreasonable. Technically my bag was oversize, but I knew it would fit because I had flown with them before that new rule/fee/moneygrab. Luckily they didn't notice or care that day and I wasn't hassled.
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