The Delta Forum Lounge Thread — Everybody is Still Welcome! 2018-2021
May 9, 2021, 6:01 pm
#9856
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Maybe she wants to mate with you?
They are the same two birds as I recognize the female(?) one, and I think she might recognize me too (she keeps looking at me) and for whatever reason isn't afraid.
May 9, 2021, 6:19 pm
#9857
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May 10, 2021, 7:34 am
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Happy Monday, Lounge! I arrived back in TX Saturday night, and it feels like a sauna here. I'm off to KS this week, so hopefully it will be a bit cooler there. I'm staying in a relatively small town, but it seems to be a pretty new hotel in the center of their downtown with a brewery in walking distance and some running trails along the river (the two things I really care about), so I'm hoping for a good trip. I also might get to see a good friend and former roommate during my connection in DEN on the way home. We're now down to <2 months left in TX and hopefully closing on selling our home this week (although leasing back until we leave).
May 10, 2021, 11:18 am
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Happy Monday, Lounge! I arrived back in TX Saturday night, and it feels like a sauna here. I'm off to KS this week, so hopefully it will be a bit cooler there. I'm staying in a relatively small town, but it seems to be a pretty new hotel in the center of their downtown with a brewery in walking distance and some running trails along the river (the two things I really care about), so I'm hoping for a good trip. I also might get to see a good friend and former roommate during my connection in DEN on the way home. We're now down to <2 months left in TX and hopefully closing on selling our home this week (although leasing back until we leave).
May 10, 2021, 11:40 am
#9860
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Happy Monday, Lounge! I arrived back in TX Saturday night, and it feels like a sauna here. I'm off to KS this week, so hopefully it will be a bit cooler there. I'm staying in a relatively small town, but it seems to be a pretty new hotel in the center of their downtown with a brewery in walking distance and some running trails along the river (the two things I really care about), so I'm hoping for a good trip. I also might get to see a good friend and former roommate during my connection in DEN on the way home. We're now down to <2 months left in TX and hopefully closing on selling our home this week (although leasing back until we leave).
May 10, 2021, 12:21 pm
#9861
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Happy Monday, Lounge! I arrived back in TX Saturday night, and it feels like a sauna here. I'm off to KS this week, so hopefully it will be a bit cooler there. I'm staying in a relatively small town, but it seems to be a pretty new hotel in the center of their downtown with a brewery in walking distance and some running trails along the river (the two things I really care about), so I'm hoping for a good trip. I also might get to see a good friend and former roommate during my connection in DEN on the way home. We're now down to <2 months left in TX and hopefully closing on selling our home this week (although leasing back until we leave).
Ah yes, KS. A fond memory - I remember a trip back in 1972. I had to drive from MCI to Ft. Scott, KS for a business meeting. It was a straight, flat, 100+ miles and the only things to break the monotony were 1 bridge and 2 microwave towers. Now there are probably some cell towers as well.
May 10, 2021, 12:48 pm
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I drove MCI-ICT and back in ~1996 (business in ICT, personal trip to upstate NY afterwards; DL fare construction allowed SEA-MCI-SYR-SEA but not SEA-ICT-SYR/ROC/BUF/ALB-SEA
I'm thinking that was the trip where I saw a snake slithering across the road and thought it was a hill
I'm thinking that was the trip where I saw a snake slithering across the road and thought it was a hill
May 10, 2021, 7:04 pm
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May 10, 2021, 7:13 pm
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Also, South Dakota, not San Diego.
May 10, 2021, 7:26 pm
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Imagine my surprise when I head a "tap, tap, tap" today -- not at my door, but at the window. It is as if they're trying to get my attention or taunt me.
I hope we can soon go back to being the Forum Lounge™ instead of the PigeonTalk Lounge™
-J.
I hope we can soon go back to being the Forum Lounge™ instead of the PigeonTalk Lounge™
-J.
May 10, 2021, 7:44 pm
#9866
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
“Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
“While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
“As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
...
“Quoth the pigeon, ‘Nevermore!’ ”
May 11, 2021, 8:50 am
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Morning, Lounge. If you don't venture into OMNI, you may have missed that Generalissimo Geno gave us quite a scare on Saturday evening. I'm happy to report he is getting back to normal.
May 11, 2021, 9:54 am
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It was nice that mrkipper was able to spend some time with Geno over the weekend.
May 11, 2021, 10:33 am
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May 11, 2021, 10:46 am
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And the Tinker AFB golf course has one of my favorite layouts for a base golf course that I've played and at least at the time (~10 years ago) was in pretty good condition, although I can't say how it is now.