The first time I heard "Valley Girl" I was 100% positive it was inspired by one of my employees. In fact, I still believe that.

Night box. Got to pack. Does MD Anderson give points? :rolleyes:

I know the study and I do at the dentist as well. Now that I have a goatee again, people believe me when I affirm my mom's really a strawberry blonde. I have no black hair.

Thanks to all who congratulated me the new job. Of course bankers go to hooters, they frown on using TARP funds to go to the clubs.

New malibu rum commercial^

I'd still do it. It's always fun to see old hardware.

I live a lot closer than you and I haven't been...I could have gone with some other Boxers in a driving rainstorm and passed on it.

If you head south after leaving Eppley, you're in Iowa (without crossing the river). Driving from Qwest Center to Eppley crosses Iowa. Our Nebraskans could tell you why Iowa took part of their state.

If I were to fly I might consider MCI - 2.5 hours drive but between cost of airfare and rental car on Annual Meeting weekend ... I stayed in MCI the night I started the drive home (rather than another night in OMA).

No but the credit card does. :rolleyes:

I know why too - something about a river flood in 1877...Supreme Court ruling held that the resulting land was Iowa.

I passed through MO while connecting to/from SAT and DFW/SPS for my USAF schools. Landing in MCI and driving would count as a real visit to MO, NE, and IA. I'm certainly not opposed to MCI.

I find hotel Internet hit and miss. I almost never use their Wi-Fi connection unless it's the only thing available because that almsot always sucks. However, if there's a wired connection in the room, usually it's fairly decent, if not very good. I've got a Linksys travel sized Wi-Fi router that's about the size of two decks of cards I've traveled with for over four years now. I can just plug that in to the ethernet cable/jack in my room, and have my own access point, with nobody else sharing it. That solves the Wi-Fi issue most of the time. It also works very well when my partner and I are traveling together and we've got two laptops with us and want to be online at the same time.

Generally I find the Internet connection in hotels that charge for service to be worse than those where it is free. But it is very hit and miss; last week at the Hilton in Baton Rouge it was running fine the first night, and not so great the next night (until I unplugged a device they had on the line, and plugged the line directly into my computer). This week I'm at a Holiday Inn Express where it's actually a pretty good connection.

Haha!:rolleyes: You are just so full of humor, at times!;):D
I have a cradlepoint wi-fi router -- so that works for me!^
A bunch of us are already signed up!^:p:rolleyes:
Who is the vendor for that service?

Hope is all goes well & recovery is as speedy as possible!^
Plus1! ^
P.s. like your goatee photo -- very cool!^

CO must be starting a hub at LAX. ;)

That was almost 3 weeks ago - much more substantial facial hair now. Not shaving or trimming lately (no running water and all) :rolleyes:

Well -- at least you don't have to worry about the facial hair -- other things, yeah!:rolleyes:

Hope the sewer/pipe business gets wrapped up quickly!^

Part of my problem, I'm sure, is my machine: an old-ish Thinkpad.

When I got my card, I asked Sprint about lost/whacked insurance (that pays for itself on my cell phone every year, it seems), but they didn't have it to offer. Hope you find your card before you next time out.

Like the hair on the top of my head? I cut my hair close for a reason ;) And I do it myself - received a haircut so bad in 2003 that I learned to do it myself. Side benefit is it saves $20 a month and the trip to the barber shop.

Aren't you finding less and less places that have active wired ethernet? And if they do, don't a lot of them still want to get paid?

I used wired in the AF ZRH Lounge last weekend because the WiFi had a charge (wired didn't). I didn't know my netbook had a RJ45 port until discovering the fee to use wireless ...