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Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 13643586)

:eek: that is all!

Goodnight, Box.

You too. Have a great sleep for tonight and try to wake up in the morning.

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Just saw Greenberg at the Angelika.

One word: awkward

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 13643590)

This show doesn't really have much about flying or even the reality of being a FA... I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

It was indeed completely vapid - had it on in the background.

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 13637693)

I'll shake my Crystal Ball harder next time.

Glad Roxy is doing fine.

Don't shake it too hard. We don't want to break it :p

Roxy or as I call her "Roxy Brown Ill Nana" was very excited to see me when I came home tonight :-:

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Originally Posted by baglady (Post 13641449)

^ Glad she's doing so well!

Thanks. ^

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 13638053)

I may refund our tickets before the 24 hour mark due to the exorbitant price on tickets for IAH-LAX :rolleyes:

I just couldn't pass up $500 a/i for South America.

Maybe you could sneak in IAH-LGA-IAH-SNA??? :D

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Originally Posted by baglady (Post 13640951)

I did not receive my low sodium meal while flying a UA/CO codeshare flight that I booked on traveledia and the IFE was in Spanish. Do I write Jeff for compensation?

:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 13640981)

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just a quick update. HAd a good interview with express. Should know in a day or two. Thanks for all the well wishes!

^

I hope it works out for you and nice to meet you today.

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 13643374)

^ I now have an official CO person that I am to contact for all things needing approval for our Calendar Project.

So unless I hear otherwise our first photo shoot on/around June 12, as planned around the Footie/Soccer World Cup TV DO.

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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 13642027)

Yawny Yawn. Does anyone know of a ok and cheap place to get breakfast around Market East / PA Convention center that I won't get mugged going to? McDeath is acceptable

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Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 13642216)

Reading Terminal Market is right downstairs. There is all sorts of great stuff right there!

Late to the game, I know (on the West Coast, just spent an hour and a half answering e-mails :rolleyes:), but go to the Down Home Diner. Our gourmand friends swear by it.

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Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 13643325)

Given these thoughts from those who actually live there, I will opt for the car. In addition to the flexibility, I figure if I steer clear of attempting to drive in Manhattan itself, I should be all good.

I am assuming that the $37 in tolls I will need to pay to get across the GWB and onto the turnpike are payable in cash via toll booths that I imagine are staffed by some of the nicest and most helpful people in the country?

The GWB is a little out of the way if you are going to NJ. I have only ever come from LGA in taxicabs, but it seems to me that you might be better off taking the BQE or Cross-Island Parkway to the Belt Parkway to the Verrazano.

Plus, avoiding Manhattan to get to the GWB Is Not Possible since the GWB ends in Manhattan. On the other hand, if you drive that way, you will get a good view of Yankee Stadium as you drive up I-87 in the South Bronx.

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Originally Posted by mnmag (Post 13642423)

Had another :rolleyes:-ful day!:eek::mad: My dog crawled under the deck -- she couldn't manage to get herself out & I ended up hacking up part of the deck to get her out!:rolleyes:

I got a good laugh picturing you as an ax wielding wild woman trying to free the dog:D

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 13643880)

...The GWB is a little out of the way if you are going to NJ. I have only ever come from LGA in taxicabs, but it seems to me that you might be better off taking the BQE or Cross-Island Parkway to the Belt Parkway to the Verrazano.

This suicide route has obviously been posited by an out-of-towner. It is analogous to going from PHL to the far northeast via the Walt Whitman, Jersey Turnpike, and the Burlington-Bristol Bridge. Only a masochist plans a drive by giving himself extra driving miles on Long Island and Staten Island.

From LGA to anywhere in NJ (or Phila or the rest of the world across the Hudson) you definitely take the Triboro (now called the RFK) Bridge to the Bronx and up the Deegan to the GWB or to Manhattan and up the Harlem River Drive depending on time of day and radio traffic reports.

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 13643880)

Plus, avoiding Manhattan to get to the GWB Is Not Possible since the GWB ends in Manhattan. On the other hand, if you drive that way, you will get a good view of Yankee Stadium as you drive up I-87 in the South Bronx.

Actually the Bridge only brushes across a very small section of Upper Manhattan that is not the "Manhattan" that one would worry about when it comes to traffic density.

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Originally Posted by rolov (Post 13643364)

NJ is not that bad.

^;)

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 13643430)

I agree. Although, I can't wait to move out of the area. :)

So true... :)

IMO, the "horror" of driving in Manhattan is extremely exaggerated. I have absolutely no problem driving in the city.

plus1 on all of the above!^