DH, originally from Boston, lived in SAN for a couple of years before moving to Houston. He felt the same way about living there as you. All the friends he met there are either from the Midwest or the East Coast. It's a nice place to visit, but I doubt he'd ever want to move back.

Meetings like that are one of the reasons I've fallen in love with being a "remote" employee. I have a team meeting once a month. It's done by phone and WebEx, and our team managers keep it to an hour. They get the most important stuff over with at the start, so we don't run out of time for it, and then one hour after we start, they wrap it up.

Other than that, I'll hear from my Team Manager when she needs me, and I'll get in touch when I need her. We get along very well with this relationship. I do my job, she does her's, and if we go a month without really talking then we assume things are going well on both ends. If something's not right, we have an agreement to get in touch to deal with it together.

I see coworkers a few times a year. There are some I wish I saw more often than that, but that's more on a social level than a professional one. Overall it's a great employer/employee relationship. I get the salary and benefits and other things a corporate type job has to offer, without a lot of the bad stuff that comes with working in the same office with the same people every week. It's spoiled me so much over the last three years that it would be very difficult to go back to a more traditional work environment.

This trip, if it ends up happening, should be a one-off thing (I hope). Also have to do the JAN trip sometime next month. The Marriott there looks reasonably nice.

Anyone want a cat? He's adorably cute, almost six months old, and full of energy. Too much energy. So much that he enjoys trying to take apart everything in our loft. At the moment, I'm willing to sell him to the highest bidder. Bidding starts at $1. Any takers?

Thanks. The cool thing about why I was asking is that the listing specifically said Florida, but negotiable. I can work with that. Worst case, it's easy enough to pick the city closer to the larger presence of the airline. MCO has the focus city title - works for me.

Your local Chinese place? (Joking. Kinda.)

Nah, I don't want him to become someone's dinner.

He may be really annoying me this afternoon, but I'm not ready to have him become tonight's chef special: kung pao kitten.

If i my upgrade does not clear tomorrow on EWR-IAH
Im just going to take someone's seat in F mid flight while they go to the lav :D

One new airport, two new routes. I just booked another trip for work in September. I'll get to hit SJT shortly before CO/Colgan stop flying there, and on the way home, I'll get my first CLE-ATL flight. Unfortunately it means two Chautauqua flights in the same day, but oh well.

There you go. Are you sitting up front in Y so you can monitor the F cabin? Maybe you'll get lucky and someone will go to the lav shortly after the 10,000 feet ding-ding, but while the seatbelt light is still on. That way you have a better chance of getting them to go sit in Y (seatbelt light is on, you shouldn't be up in the aisles!) and you'll still get yourself upgraded before the meal service starts.

One of the national steakhouses I've yet to try...heard good things but haven't made it there yet. I have 50th and 3rd in Manhattan or Rittenhouse Square in Philly. And there's a Ruth's Chris gift card in my wallet that I'm not looking forward to using...it was a gift from the GM. :rolleyes:

Or there's the place in GLA that's charging kids based on weight...this was in a daily trade email.

To give you an idea of the portions one was given, take a look at this piece of cake: http://flickr.com/photos/ssegraves/2...n/photostream/

You get three courses, and that's one of them... $25 ^

The famed seven-layer chocolate cake at the Palm is akin to that. It's a $14 slice of cake, but I have found the best thing to do is to go out for dinner, order the cake even if you have no plans to touch it and bag it, and put it in the fridge immediately upon getting home. It's a delicious breakfast at fridge temperature the next morning with coffee.

I say go for it. There is nothing so addicting than working for an airline and as a FT, you know you already have it "bad", so you might as well get paid to do it instead of paying for it via an airline ticket.

Florida isn't a bad place to work or live. Ok, the snakes and the alligators need to move but other than that it's fine. And I do believe MCO is very much like Atlantic City so you should feel at home.

Im right near the F cabin , Im technically a displaced BF passenger since Im already up front for IAH-EZE.
I called and they said they would put me on the waitlist but i don't appear on the pda site.
I will also monitor the galley for Shrimp Pizzas