Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12160470)

I wonder what the drainage basin of Lake travis is, it it must not be very far north, as it would be having more water.

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 12160580)

I am guessing the box hits Plat on Monday night or Tuesday morning, depending on how many of us are flying on Monday.

Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12160581)

The Colorado. (Not the Lake Powell river; a TX river of the same name).
http://www.lcra.org/water/quality/state.html

Originally Posted by rolov (Post 12158848)

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Greetings from the beach

Originally Posted by J.Edward (Post 12158869)

Just scored 50k points thanks to Chase's new account promo.

If you're looking to top off your account you might want to check it out.

Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12159240)

I got the expected :rolleyes: twice yesterday — first at EWR, then at ATL. Was flying MSY-EWR-ATL, arrived at EWR early to find my EWR-ATL flight was delayed for at least an hour, due to a combination of weather at EWR and ORD (plane was inbound from ORD), and a maintenance issue at ORD (turned out to be a busted overhead bin door over 1A/B, where I was assigned to sit). Once we finally boarded at EWR, thunderstorms approached the airport, and we spent nearly an hour getting to the runway, then 45 more minutes at the end of the runway waiting for the weather to clear enough to take off. Then, on approach to ATL, we were put into a holding pattern, until fuel ran low enough we had to divert to BNA. The diversion was rather short, about 30-45 minutes on the ground to refuel, and then we were cleared straight on in to ATL, and landed at ATL about 40 minutes after taking off from BNA. I left the W in New Orleans around 5:30 AM central time, and arrived at ATL around 9:00 PM eastern time, 14.5 hours later.

To make it all the more fun, we had a very obnoxious mid-50s/early 60s-year-old woman on board who was a total @ss to the flight crew. When we killed the engines at EWR, she stormed up the aisle from coach to speak to the flight attendant, loudly announcing, "If we're still on the ground 30 minutes from now I will have a heart attack." :eek: The flight attendant asked her if she was having a medical issue, and she yelled, very loudly, "I'VE ALREADY HAD TWO HEART ATTACKS AND BARELY SURVIVED THE SECOND! DO YOU WANT ME TO HAVE A THIRD? DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME?" The flight attendant tried to calm her down, and she finally stormed back to her seat.

After landing at BNA, she once again stormed up the aisle, locked herself in the first class lavatory for about 10 minutes, while a line of desperate passengers from economy who had been in their seats for nearly two hours due to turbulance waited, to do her makeup. After a flight attendant knocked on the door to make sure she was alright, she opened it, makeup in hand, and said "Let me be! I'm trying to fix my makeup!" She was then told that other passengers needed the lav, and she could put makeup on later after landing at ATL. She then stormed out, another episode of "I'm going to have a heart attack" started, this time involving the flight service coordinator, a gate agent from BNA, and the captain. This rolled out into the jetway, where I had a perfect view of the action out my window from seat 1A. She dropped a few F bombs during this conversation, and seemed to not care that everyone in F was discussing how obnoxious she was, as well as the line of Y passengers who were still in the front of the plane waiting for the lav. The best part was the flight service coordinator saying, "Ma'am, do we need to call you an ambulance for your heart, or the Nashville Police Department for your abuse of the flight crew?" Amazingly, that shut her up. She was then allowed to stand in the corner of the jetway and pout until we were ready to push back and head for ATL. Fortunately we didn't hear another peep out of her for the rest of the trip.

Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12159874)

Posting from my new computer that arrived last Saturday, but I didn't really get to start setting up until last night. Loving this major upgrade in technology from my old machine, which was built in early 2004 with hardware that was state of the art around 2002.

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12160541)

I read that far into the sentence and immediately finished it with, "...buying dollar coins."

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12159691)

Hey -- you're missing two "u" characters there -- or have you really been in the US that long? :confused:

Originally Posted by COFreqFlyer (Post 12161321)

Ah, that wonderful 5Day EUA email:

Originally Posted by fozz

You'll need an articles of corporation or something stating it is a valid company along with a Federal Tax ID. Both of these can easily be created online and the first, in NJ, can be done online with the cert presented to you at the end of your app instantly.

I was impressed how easy it was to register a company in NJ, it was completely free of red tape which is very unjersey.

Originally Posted by Hartmann

The D.C. mini-DO is the weekend of 8/15 correct?

I am trying to figure out if I want to do IAH-MEM-MSP-DCA // DCA-MEM-IAH and grab a 757.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12161600)

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Morning, Box.

Fozz, do you have links? I've always had a name picked out for the sports-based photo company that I would start...might as well register it and hold on to it just in case.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12161600)

Morning, Box.

Fozz, do you have links? I've always had a name picked out for the sports-based photo company that I would start...might as well register it and hold on to it just in case.

Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12161664)

I may have to look into this. I've been wanting to move my business banking from Compass for a while now.