I am currently a doctoral student at OSU (oklahoma State University). My profession is culinary arts and I am currently a Chef Instructor at OSU. I use Continental to travel mainly for business to work events throughout the country.

Cool!

OK, doc(to be), you're nominated to write the food review.

My wife, Sondra (AKA CME Flyer) and I run a company (www.academycme.org) that is accredited to certify Physician, Phamacist, and Nursing medical education.

You can do what I did for a "meet & greet" before my wedding:

I had Norwegians mixing with IT / Security specialists mixing with Canadians mixing with aviation folks, not to mention family and coworkers from both sides

so...
A. I made a "Bingo" card with 25 squares. I had people go find people who:

1. Had lived outside the U.S. more than a year
2. Hold a Microsoft certification
3. Can translate a certain phrase from Norwegian
4. Had never left the state of Texas (turned out to be a 6-month old baby)
5. Have ever eaten "poutine"
6. Have a commercial pilot's license
7. Had visited all 50 states (me)
etc.
The center square was to:
8. Find a person who liked "SPAM", by either definition. (turned out to have a very dignified lady loudly declare "I like Spam!", who happened to grow up overseas , and our jaws dropped... and then laughed so hard it hurt.)

B. I also did an "alphabet fillin" for wedding advice and words
and
C. a page to tell the funniest misadventure at a wedding (or on a honeymoon) that they had seen or knew of (coworker had his new brother-in-law take all the tires off the "getaway car" and put it on jacks; another had "HE and LP" taped in masking tape on the bottom of his shoes, so that when he kneeled at the altar....


You get the picture.... The evening went VERY well!
You can easily try some "ice breakers" like that, and boy, do folks start talking.

Corporate tax attorney from South Florida.

Can trace my roots with One Pass back to 1981 under the old Eastern Airlines program, but have a One Pass card that says member since 1983. Accumulated enough miles for an award by September 1982.

Flew a few CO routes that no longer exist.

MIA-LGW-MIA nonstop in 1988 CO 747
HNL-CNS nonstop in Nov. 1990, on the old true first class service on DC10-30.
SYD-AKL nonstop in Nov. 1990, old first class on 747
AKL-HNL nonstop in Dec. 1990, old first class on 747
That was true first class service. I think it was two round trip first class tickets from Florida for only 170,000 miles.

Most Interesting CO trip: Crossing the Pacific on a CO 737-800. Took the Island Hopper (5 stops) from HNL-GUM on 737-800 in Nov. 2001. 14 hours of fun with the first class crew. The next day flew from GUM to TPE again on the 737-800.

All CO flights on the DC-10-10 with the Pub, including Saipan-Hong Kong-Guam in Nov. 1992. On the return from GUM-HNL CO used a Swiss Air DC-10-30 that they had not modified yet. A 170 mph typhoon was approaching GUM. CO was running another DC-10 to HNL that night. Another CO true old first class trip.

Retired once and back working. Most of my travel these days is north/south in CA with trips to London mixed in. Private investigator/insurance adjuster working and doing marketing for Blair & Co, a great insurance administration and claims company. I also own a commercial embroidery company.

Born and raised in Los Angeles and love that place. (Yes, I'm the one!) Still remember my first flight on TWA Super Connie when I was 8. And Braniff and Western and Texas Intl.and Eastern and PSA about every airline there is and was, at least in the USA. Morphed from "church clothes" for travel to jeans; from china to plastic; from service to attitude. What a trip. Travel junkie. Trains, planes and automobiles. Love Flyertalk. The game's the thrill.

Doing IAH - LGW shortly after the party in IAH. Look forward to seeing everyone.