Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 12640557)

Sad. I already have two or three Christmas gigs booked and that evening's one of them. :(

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640307)

I've had a few articles; most notably "Psycho woman travels with lots of crap as she takes her newborn everywhere" and "Crazy lady in wheelchair still manages to fly over 200k a year". Yes, that was paraphasing. TSA went nuts when the photographer was taking snaps as I went through security :D

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640411)

I have had a complete $#!T day.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640552)

OUCH! how are you doing?

Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12640649)

I've been in a few:

* Anyone still ticked at US' experiment with $2 non-alcoholic beverages can probably blame me ...,
* USAToday quoted me after having an explicitly allowed item confiscated by the TSA,
* A photo of my cubicle ran in USAToday,
* Christopher Elliott (yeah) quoted me in US News in 2003.

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 12640183)

Lots to catch up on, because today has been a pretty crazy day...


Anyway, the article runs tomorrow in the Business section. Hopefully I haven't said anything completely inaccurate or stupid. Keep an eye out. :)

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 12640183)

Anyway, the article runs tomorrow in the Business section. Hopefully I haven't said anything completely inaccurate or stupid. Keep an eye out. :)

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12640134)

They are crying more than anything about the need to learn a different game...one at which a larger amount of people have easier access to.

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 12640183)

Lots to catch up on, because today has been a pretty crazy day...

Long story short: a while back (Oct. 2 to be exact) I wrote a simple reply/comment to a post by the Bing Travel account (fareologist) on Twitter. The topic was Thanksgiving travel - what you paid, how far out you booked, etc. That was followed by a "hey, would you be interested in talking to a reporter about this?" and I said, sure, I'm up for anything...

As it turns out, said reporter was from the New York Times - and we ended up exchanging emails and talking on the phone once. She said she wasn't sure when the article would run, and I kind of forgot about it...

Until this morning, when I got a call saying "this is the NYT, the article is running tomorrow, and we're sending a photographer to your house this afternoon!"

The photo shoot took 2 hours, and I'm hoping fervently that there were SOME shots that came out non-:rolleyes:! They wanted some shots of me with my laptop (presumably "hard at work finding good travel deals!" :p) so I of course pulled up FT on the screen, just in case it made it into the photo. :D

Anyway, the article runs tomorrow in the Business section. Hopefully I haven't said anything completely inaccurate or stupid. Keep an eye out. :)

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 12640285)

2 boxers in the NYT. ^^

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12641022)

You news-hounds are going to have major fun on the StarMegaDO ;)

Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 12641143)

Has anyone said "it's not fair" yet?:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12640768)

I've not been in the paper for business travel reasons.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12639935)

;):D

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640307)

I've had a few articles; most notably "Psycho woman travels with lots of crap as she takes her newborn everywhere" and "Crazy lady in wheelchair still manages to fly over 200k a year". Yes, that was paraphasing. TSA went nuts when the photographer was taking snaps as I went through security :D

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640411)

I have had a complete $#!T day. After having fun pretending to be "super mom", I had a drs. appt, then took bl jr to hers (h1n1 in her; still awaiting mine). On the way home, had a typical blow out with my dad. In his typical fashion, he thought he could smooth it over by buying me off. I said no and we've spoken about 10 words since. Found out a childhood friends had died; and in general I want to go to bed, pull the covers over my head and not come out for a few days. Sadly, not going to happen. Thank you for letting me vent.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12640411)

I have had a complete $#!T day. After having fun pretending to be "super mom", I had a drs. appt, then took bl jr to hers (h1n1 in her; still awaiting mine). On the way home, had a typical blow out with my dad. In his typical fashion, he thought he could smooth it over by buying me off. I said no and we've spoken about 10 words since. Found out a childhood friends had died; and in general I want to go to bed, pull the covers over my head and not come out for a few days. Sadly, not going to happen. Thank you for letting me vent.

Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12641281)

Yeah, but if memory serves you're a (semi)fictional character in a Hardy Boys book. Sooner or later we all get in the paper, even if it's just the Obit section. But a novel is immortality.