Come Fly With Me

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Who hasn't looked around on a long flight after everyone has fallen asleep and then looked at their lover with amorous eyes; hoping to steal a private moment together in the aft lavatory. "Come on honey, you have a skirt on. How difficult could it be?" Now anyone with $300 and a penchant for adventurous love making can join the Mile High Club. Mile High Atlanta has equipped a Piper Cherokee Six for just such an occasion. The price includes a one hour tryst at 5,280 feet and a bottle of champagne. As an added bonus patrons get to keep the sheets - now that's classy! I am going to add this to my upcoming (no pun intended) travel plans.

Hotels Glasses Are Filthy

Atlanta's own Fox 5 recently conducted an undercover investigation to determine the cleanliness of hotel glasses. Their findings suggests the hotel toilet is probably cleaner than then hotel glasses. I will be brushing my teeth with the $8 mini-bar Fiji Water from now on.

Chicago Steakhouse Cooking Class

When I decide to finally hang up my keyboard and end my career in IT, it will most likely be for a career in writing or the culinary arts or maybe both. For some time I have tossed around the idea of going to culinary school. I have no desire to open a restaurant, but I do intend to eat for the rest of my life, so why not eat well?


I received lots of goodies for Christmas this past year. One of my favorite gifts was a gift certificate to Atlanta's Viking Cooking School for the Chicago Steakhouse Cooking Class. Chicago is one of my favorite cities and steak is one of my favorite foods. mmmm Windy City meat (drooling). The menu included the following:

• Bacon-Wrapped Sea Scallops with Apricot Sauce
• Chopped Salad with Avocados, Bacon, Blue Cheese, and Dijon Vinaigrette
• Chicago-style Bone-in Rib-Eyes
• Horseradish Cream Sauce
• Sauteed Spinach and Mushrooms
• Hash Brown Potatoes
• Windy City's Banana Cream Tarts
  

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." - Alice May Brock

Flying is much safer than driving

That may be statistically true, but no one is trying to shoot down my car with a missle. Well, not that I know of.

For those that suffer from aviatophobia, you now have another reason to shit your pants and white-knuckle-grip your armrest when flying. Don't worry about the wing falling off; the asshole on the ground with a shoulder-fired missile pointing at your plane should be your concern.

USA Today broke a story earlier this month about anti-missile devices being installed on commercial aircraft. According to the Newspaper for Dummies "Tens of thousands of airline passengers will soon be flying on jets outfitted with anti-missile systems as part of a new government test aimed at thwarting terrorists armed with shoulder-fired projectiles."

Just in case you didn't read the article before lining your bird cage, the article can be found here:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-04-anti-missile-jets_N.htm

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

No, it's a gun.

Apparently some jackass made it through the security checkpoint at Ronald Regan Airport in D.C. with loaded gun on Sunday. He made it passed the security checkpoint before remembering his cold-steel-argument-ender and returned to the checkpoint to disclose his travel faux pas. How the hell does that conversation start? "Excuse me, I just went through the security check point and realized I forgot to leave my gun at home. Sorry." Let the beatings and full body cavity search begin. "The TSA contacted airport police, who charged the man with possessing or transporting a firearm into an air carrier terminal where prohibited, a misdemeanor, and released him."

I am glad to see all of the billions of dollars and countless civil liberties we have given up for "airport security" are working.

cnn.com covers the incident here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airport.gun/index.html

Writing

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"Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there."- Jef Mallett

Upcoming Travels

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Below are just a few of the upcoming travels I have planned for 2008.

Tokyo, Japan
London, England
Corvallis, Oregon
Charleston, South Carolina

I will be posting more pics and articles regarding my travel in '08.

Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008

Each new year is filled with resolutons. People resolve to lose weight, save more money, or stop kicking the neighbors dog. We are two weeks into they New Year and I have yet to make a resolution. I think my resolution will be to write more. I haven't been very inspired to write over the past few months, hence the limited number of new postings. I want to write more in 2008. Writing is a craft and like most crafts, one must practice in order to improve their craft. I have challenged myself to do at least a weekly posting. Hopefully their will be more than that, but a weekly posting is a nice start.