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ConciergeMike May 6, 2010 4:38 pm


Originally Posted by fozz (Post 13912880)
But they do earn full miles on UA. :D

Yesterday's VDB isn't burning a hole in my pocket...yet.

sfogate May 6, 2010 4:40 pm


Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 13912430)
Any fútbol fans out there? Looks like Man U will play in YYZ, PHL, MCI, and HOU.^ In HOU, they're going to play in the MLS All-Star game. They will play against the best the MLS has to offer. I think a couple of 'Box fútbol DOs will need to be held.@:-)

As the mother of a future Man U player, you know I want to see the game. I'll check your link and see if I can swing the time off.

baglady May 6, 2010 4:42 pm


Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 13912781)
So...I just want to get it straight...am I driving down to Philly tomorrow night or not? I was also supposed to meet up with a friend who's in town for an interview, but it just got pushed back to Monday, so in any case I'd have to make two trips. And I'm not around next weekend. If there is something going on tomorrow night, that would be awesome, but if not, that's fine.

I won't be there tomorrow, but I should know by tomorrow when I'll be there, which should be sometime next week.

icurhere2 May 6, 2010 5:07 pm


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 13912948)
Yesterday's VDB isn't burning a hole in my pocket...yet.

I've been known to burn VDB vouchers before leaving the airport - sometimes before even leaving the gate.

icurhere2 May 6, 2010 5:11 pm

Went 1-2 in racquetball today - as poorly as I played the first two games, that was an accomplishment to eke out the final win.

colpuck May 6, 2010 5:15 pm


Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 13912697)
Sweet. I will make zee changes. When do you get into LGA (assuming because it's US)?

I posted it to PB2.

msv May 6, 2010 5:19 pm

Another young person (15) from my town just died as a result of a car crash in a place it would seem nearly impossible on a nice day to have this happen. It's a rather small H.S. and surviving inexperienced driving has been the hardest lesson here. So many needless deaths and I have personal experience with my kids as passengers/drivers in very scary accidents. It just makes me so:(:(:(

sbm12 May 6, 2010 5:28 pm


Originally Posted by msv (Post 13912674)
It might be better than finding the tux and realizing you can't button it:D

I wore it last in December and it fit great. Plus the pants are adjustable. :cool:

I found a guy who rented me one for pickup tomorrow for just over $100. Not the best, but way better than I could have done.

Originally Posted by fozz (Post 13912778)
$369 jfk-fra-mxp-muc-jfk

You don't want to go to MXP in the winter. Fall, maybe, but it is very much a summer destination (and you need to leave MXP and get somewhere else nearby instead).

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 13912781)
If there is something going on tomorrow night, that would be awesome, but if not, that's fine.

Nothing AFAIK.

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 13912781)
Are you a participant or a guest? If the latter, ^ - there are precious few black-tie-dress-code weddings these days, at least in my sphere, and it's a shame. I can't do it for mine because it's summer and too early in the day, alas.

Just a guest.


Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 13912850)
CPH and OSL are under $400 out of EWR as well. Some very nice deals...

ETA: Beware, these are LH L fares which don't appear to earn miles with CO.

No miles would suck, but maybe I'll gamble on the UA option. I'm actually looking for VIE, ZRH or GVA.

baglady May 6, 2010 5:33 pm


Originally Posted by msv (Post 13913126)
Another young person (15) from my town just died as a result of a car crash in a place it would seem nearly impossible on a nice day to have this happen. It's a rather small H.S. and surviving inexperienced driving has been the hardest lesson here. So many needless deaths and I have personal experience with my kids as passengers/drivers in very scary accidents. It just makes me so:(:(:(

It's very sad. Inexperience and too many distractions.

Very good article from Auto Week below.

http://www.driverinteractive.com/Lic...utoWeekarticle

cheepneezy May 6, 2010 5:46 pm


Originally Posted by msv (Post 13913126)
It just makes me so:(:(:(

:( It's really frighten how quickly bad things can happen in a car. I'm friends with someone whose daughter was one of 5 girls killed in a car accident. Absolutely devastating.

Scott6067 May 6, 2010 5:48 pm


Originally Posted by fozz (Post 13912880)
But they do earn full miles on UA. :D

But do they earn miles on BD??

Flyer_70 May 6, 2010 5:51 pm


Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 13912850)
CPH and OSL are under $400 out of EWR as well. Some very nice deals...

ETA: Beware, these are LH L fares which don't appear to earn miles with CO.

I see some cheaper (sub $450) fares out of IAH too. Here's hoping someone else might match.

ETA - looks like FC omits YQ charges on some of them - so perhaps not such a good deal..

msv May 6, 2010 5:59 pm


Originally Posted by baglady (Post 13913196)
It's very sad. Inexperience and too many distractions.

Very good article from Auto Week below.

http://www.driverinteractive.com/Lic...utoWeekarticle

That was a really good article^.

When I learned to drive it was a stick shift, no power steering, brakes and a crappy am radio so I think you really did focus on the road and even though my car didn't have any safety features other than a really primative seatbelt I don't recall anyone ever being seriously hurt an an accident and back then the drinking age was 18! I can't even recall anyone actually totalling a car. I really think it's the dreaded cell phone and I've yet to see a kid get in a car and turn it off:mad:

Flyer_70 May 6, 2010 6:06 pm


Originally Posted by msv (Post 13913126)
Another young person (15) from my town just died as a result of a car crash in a place it would seem nearly impossible on a nice day to have this happen. It's a rather small H.S. and surviving inexperienced driving has been the hardest lesson here. So many needless deaths and I have personal experience with my kids as passengers/drivers in very scary accidents. It just makes me so:(:(:(

<shakes head> Tragic. :(

ConciergeMike May 6, 2010 6:11 pm

When last we left the story Mackieman asked me if I was a glutton for punishment for setting my mother's start page to Welcome to Internet.

I got this email tonight and it was too good not to share:


To: Copa
From: Madre de Copa

pls explain if you can:

whenever I.turn on the computer and go to the "e" shortcut on my wallpaper and click,.I get this loud noise and the computer yells "IN-TER-NET!!!!",I want comcast.. I have to type in www.comcast.net in the top bar and I will get it but this is really weird..

A black screen comes up with the word INTERNET across the middle. Any idea?

Thanks
Doing this turned out to have an even better ROI than I thought, since she had to spell out "IN-TER-NET!!!!" :D

Forwarded said email to my fiancee and she snorted.

Epic win. Now the question is how long I can go without answering.


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