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Originally Posted by gbryan84
(Post 13854185)
As you might recall we offered to fly the MIL up on some of my orphaned DL miles. Well she knew the rules but decided to send us an itinerary on CO direct IAH-EWR on a holiday weekend. Needless to say the ticket was around $800 but she kindly said if this is outside of what we had wanted to spend on her birthday gift she understood :mad::mad::mad::mad: ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME :mad::mad::mad::mad:. I ended up giving in and looked up reward tickets on CO because my wife was giving me sh!t and we found times that were within 2 hours of her original itinerary. We called her and told her what we found and she started b!tching about how if she did this she would have to leave her house at 6 am to catch the flight and some more b.s. Oh, I forgot to tell you what she gets me for my birthday....n:rolleyes:thing, not that I care or even want anything from her but come on!!!
After all this, Mothers day is coming up and I told my wife that if she wanted to get her mom something she could get a second job to pay for it. My mom will be getting a nice arrangement from FTD.com once I get my CO debit card. :p |
Originally Posted by gbryan84
(Post 13854185)
My mom will be getting a nice arrangement from FTD.com once I get my CO debit card. :p
Are flowers an approved business expense, per the accounting firm of :rolleyes:v and :rolleyes:v? |
Yawn. Need to work out, then eat.
Originally Posted by Trustguy
(Post 13850175)
Home from HNL. Interesting flight in F on AA. We had an epic battle between DYKWIA (lite -- FA could only confirm that said pax were not EXP or revenue F) vs. "parents of gifted children" on the flight. We knew one of the FA's pretty well (we scored another bottle of wine from the crew ^). DYKWIA folks were mad that children were allowed in F (on a HNL-LAX flight). Said children were well behaved and parents were both EXP's on AA and had seats in F for said children. There was a shouting match on the plane before departure..
The DYKWIA folks rang the FA call button 6 times on the flight. One of the times, they just wanted to tell the purser that they would be complaining to corporate. Wow, there are many :rolleyes: folks out there.
Originally Posted by Trustguy
(Post 13850218)
Karaoke hint for the middle aged man... When (If) forced to do a song, Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" done in spoken word form (ala William Shatner) works OK and usually gets one out of the rotation with a few laughs.^
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Apparently someone at AS/QX corporate communications likes one of my blog posts. I made it onto their internal company site based on referral traffic I'm seeing. Sadly I cannot actually see what they said about me in the link since it is an internal site.
Time to go to the gym for the first time in several weeks. This should be ugly... |
Originally Posted by gbryan84
(Post 13854185)
As you might recall we offered to fly the MIL up on some of my orphaned DL miles. Well she knew the rules but decided to send us an itinerary on CO direct IAH-EWR on a holiday weekend. Needless to say the ticket was around $800 but she kindly said if this is outside of what we had wanted to spend on her birthday gift she understood :mad::mad::mad::mad: ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME :mad::mad::mad::mad:. I ended up giving in and looked up reward tickets on CO because my wife was giving me sh!t and we found times that were within 2 hours of her original itinerary. We called her and told her what we found and she started b!tching about how if she did this she would have to leave her house at 6 am to catch the flight and some more b.s. Oh, I forgot to tell you what she gets me for my birthday....n:rolleyes:thing, not that I care or even want anything from her but come on!!! ETA: To be fair she does get my brother-in-law gifts but he's in seminary school.
After all this, Mothers day is coming up and I told my wife that if she wanted to get her mom something she could get a second job to pay for it. My mom will be getting a nice arrangement from FTD.com once I get my CO debit card. :p |
Originally Posted by sbm12
(Post 13854054)
Did you know LAX has its own theme song? It made it to #54 on the pop chart and #9 on the country chart in the USA back in the 70s.
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Flight status just changed from on time to 90 minute delay.
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Originally Posted by windwalker
(Post 13854093)
ME TOO ^^
also thinking, that swimming for peta looks pretty good too Here |
Local TV media is in front of 1600 Smith. All the local politicos had a big press conference, including the mayor. Apparently, she has Smisek's cell phone #. Essentially it sounds like they are willing to do a lot to keep CO HQ in Houston.
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Originally Posted by sbm12
(Post 13854271)
Apparently someone at AS/QX corporate communications likes one of my blog posts. I made it onto their internal company site based on referral traffic I'm seeing. Sadly I cannot actually see what they said about me in the link since it is an internal site.
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Originally Posted by photog72
(Post 13854571)
Essentially it sounds like they are willing to do a lot to keep CO HQ in Houston.
As I said in my post in the :rolleyes: thread, where they locate the HQ is irrelevant to things like population base (although that conversation was especially mind-numbing and pointless) and is based entirely on incentives the "new" company can/will receive. The location of the HQ will be rumored to move every time the tax incentives the municipality offered are set to sunset. No E.O. wants to be caught "doing nothing" as their city loses a highly respected employer. More often than not, it's just for show. |
Originally Posted by belynch
(Post 13854618)
(although that conversation was especially mind-numbing and pointless)
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Fiancee says to go straight from work to her parents' house; they invited us for dinner. K...going on 25 minutes, no parents to be seen...and fiancee herself just got here. And to think that the last two days was training in instructional design and not in communicating effectively.
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Originally Posted by Trustguy
(Post 13854428)
I never knew about this. Sounds like I need to investigate further. I am at LAX now.
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Watching the news about the Senate Roasting of Goldman execs. The people have a new punching bag. A ^ to NBC starting off by saying the grilling was done by people who can't be blameless for the mess themselves.
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