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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12243168)

It's going to be a giant PIA.
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So, you will get it back before you leave, but it's going to be time-consuming.

I understood about the appointment just being a time to get in line the first time but I'm not happy to hear that I'll have to go back later to pick it back up. That may mess me up something special since I'll actually need to go to work that day.

Was yours an application for a new passport or just pages added?

I have 4 hours tomorrow at IAH, will be at either C South or E from approx 9:30 till 1:00pmish.

Good morning box

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12243168)

It's going to be a giant PIA. I added pages to my passport at before my last trip to Asia and had an 8:15 am appointment. If you are not familiar with the process, it works as follows: you get an appointment, but your appointment actually designates a time for you to go to the window and take a number to wait in line, not the time at which you will meet with someone to submit your paperwork. I showed up five minutes early for my 8:15 am appointment, and it still took an hour to wait for my number and submit all the paperwork.

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The CO 1E Lamp special:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493/...b2fd5049c5.jpg

and another takeoff roll

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12240632)

As if your piggybacking of coupons and discounts wasn't convincing enough, I am now convinced that you and my fiancee need to compare notes. She goes to car dealerships after having researched exhaustively and engages in a practice that she refers to as "negotiating". In practice, it is not much more than "This is what I want, this is what I'm paying. Ball's in your court, dude." I hear it is tremendous fun to watch the sales guys lose their cool. This is why she is buying my next car for me.

I am hoping that I will be able to have this kind of discipline the next time we buy a car (probably in 2-3 years, current cars are still chugging along). If not, maybe she can start a purchasing service.

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Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12241458)

And of course I am right.

This is entirely consistent with my experience of marriage.

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Originally Posted by radonc1 (Post 12242598)

Not much to see there unless you are involved in state government or OSU. Speaking of OSU, I will be getting down there quite frequently since I will be dropping the youngest there next month to start school. I will become an empty nester after 26 years.

Isn't the parent company of the Limited there? That might be another reason to visit.

I went to Columbus on business last year, which was only the second time I had been there despite having grown up two hours away (the first time was to get some sort of proclamation from our state senator for something I did in high school).

Congratulations on the empty nest, if congratulations are in order for that sort of thing (it's 12 years in the future for me).

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12243213)

Just pages added. As far as I know, they do not do anything while you wait unless it is an extreme emergency (i.e., death of a relative abroad or other major crisis). You drop off the paperwork, pay the processing and expediting fees, and are given a ticket to pick up the passport at Will Call. They may be able to have it ready by 1:30 or so, but you will still have to wait in the Will Call line (which does not have a take-a-number system) to pick it up.

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 12243310)

Isn't the parent company of the Limited there? That might be another reason to visit. I

Yes, Les Wexner's company is still based there.

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Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12237287)

Has anyone read this book?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/...303a5aa72b.jpg

Yes, read it last summer. It's a good read.

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 12242073)

You can find Dunkin Donuts at Ala Moana Shopping Center Food Court, in Honolulu. Or atleast it was there the last time I was.

It is still there.

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Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12240697)

Delta's revenue protection unit actually plants auctions for non-transferable items.

I think it could be argued that buying an item via one of those RPU auctions is the same as buying the item from Delta or one of its agents... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 12238133)

I just received an e-mail from my future boss. My background check came through. Though, this is just a temporary job, it could lead to a permanent one at the same place. The pay is a raise from my old job too (though, I made more in Philly). So... I need to make a phone call, and find a start date.^ I now pass the job fairy to anyone who could use her help.:)

Time to go out and buy some diapers.

Congrats!

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Originally Posted by rolov (Post 12243306)

Good morning box

The CO 1E Lamp special:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493/...b2fd5049c5.jpg

Nice Lamps.

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Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 12238485)

Now that there's word of IAH-YEG returning, I wonder if either CO or AC will give IAH-YUL a shot. Can an AC CR9 even make it that far, or would it require an E-Jet?

I also wonder whether AC will launch IAH-YVR on its own metal (they already operate IAH-YYC/YYZ). They operate a lot of Asia/Pac flights from there, and it's right on the great-circle routing from Houston to East Asia.

CO briefly operated IAH-YUL with an ERJ-145XR early in this decade. It didn't last long though.

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Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12241418)

That's good of you. Whenever I see my UPS guy, I always offer him a bottled water. He/she seems very appreciative (I don't do this just on $ days, I do this on all days I see them; I have good UPS guys/ladies and giving them a cold $.20 bottle of water is a small gesture when they lug stuff inside and put my boxes wherever I want instead of outside which is all they're required to do).

My UPS guy thinks it's hilarious. He also pointed out that the shipments are N:eek:T insured!

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12243407)

Nice Lamps.

I walked up there to verify it was indeed an AF lounge :-:

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Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12240697)

Delta's revenue protection unit actually plants auctions for non-transferable items.

I pity the fool that bought an auction item from an eBay username that has "revprotection" in it. How dumb is DL to use that handle, and what further level of stupid is the person who thought that buying from it was a good idea?