Depending upon process there are two of us. We have adjacent offices but I have less delegated authority.

Nah - I was already one of the largest grant procurers ...

Learned something else new today - the late Michael Kamen (mentioned recently as the genius of the Metallica / San Francisco Symphony collaboration) also co-wrote "I Do the Rock" with Tim Curry. :rolleyes:

8 years running
 

Well, I just peeked at my OnePass account and since the posting of last week's flights, I've made platinum for next year.....on MILES! For the last 7 years, I've qualified on EQP (usually by June/July) and sometimes barely made it to 75K EQM all year. I think the DEQM promotion helped since I just passed 75K but am only at 69 EQP. This year's been slow for air travel for me but I think I should get near 100 EQP by the end of year. What the EQM on that will be is anyone's guess. I may get a work trip in BF to Germany or I may just keep on flying down to JAX, RSW, MCO, TPA, PBI, and SDF every once in a while.

I guess :rolleyes: will tell.

Congrats! As someone who had never even been mid-tier on any airline before this year :rolleyes:, I pass 100K (for the first time) sometime over the Atlantic Ocean Friday evening / Saturday morning.

Dean².

Well wish I'd be there longer! There is a slight possibility of me staying in Weehawken but I will emphasize the "slight". :D Other than that, the sister will want to be as close to home as possible when out partying. Errrgh!! :)

^

:D

Good night Box.

Only when 0 < Dean < 1; Dean² then is lesser than Dean. Otherwise Dean² doesn't get to respond to questions about whether a functioning cannon would be a weapon :rolleyes:

Alright all - need to get some sleep so I can show up at work ...

...and will be getting funner.:D If that's a word.

Actually, what I meant to say was "There are new creatures on that site." Now I'm really embarrassed — typed the wrong word and made a glaring grammatical error (usually I'm a grammar Nazi, thanks to my English teacher mother).

That's what I get for staying up too late three nights in a row dealing with work stuff. I think it's time I get some sleep.

(Dean≈DeanΦ*(⌠Dean / ∩Deanⁿ ± [{Dean} Ω Dean])) ÷ 0 = ∞

:rolleyes: on the dining pizza thread someone said dominoes and mama's pizza.

One of the reasons that I diverted away from the advanced degree track into the hotel biz...well, that and a history professor who once told me that I was further banned from cracking jokes about the French in his classrooms because "French jokes are bad for the UN". I despise him as a human being, and I despised his cemented residence in an ivory tower that had no conception of the world at large. Now after being out of the ivory tower for several years, I feel like I can go back into it via teaching and at least speak from experience.

Don't forget the third leg of that triangle: the ease with which you can make people of lesser status feel like dried rattlesnake $hit.

Foursome with enough notice for me to come up from the hinterlands. @:-)

I'm reading Vince Flynn, so by extension I am unable to sleep. I enjoy being a grammar Nazi because I took a course in grammar Nazism - a writing tutor practicum. That having been said, I much more enjoy my position as a self-appointed resident crusader against stupidity and self-importance.

Back to the book - night, Box.

Yup ^

Celebrated on the rooftop bar at the Wit Hotel in Chicago. Had a few drinks in honour of the Box