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March 01, 2007
Letters from Seattle
Ok, nothing like waiting until the day before going home to make an entry BUT I haven't had a whole lot to say ....I KNOW, hard to believe, huh?
So, yes we have been here for nearly 2 weeks.
People here are beginning to take on a kind of fictional form to me...the night security guy looks like a " real life" version of the Cartoon Family Guy...really he does!
There have been some guests at the hotel from Japan...2 of them who hang out together a lot remind me of the characters on Heroes...Save the Cheerleader, Save the world. Time to go home.
Hopefully our home is still standing...thanks to our neighbors. In the continuing Saga of Where Water does NOT belong, it seems our roof allowed some melted snow to seep in in the usual place..by the front door. Compression of 25" of snow on a heat tape will do that to you. We continue to have issues with that corner of the house and we've replaced the ceiling/walls in that hallway more than once before. Here we go again but not until we come up with some solution to the problem. Maybe we should just expose the rafters and have some sort of waterway/tube down and back out again..ya know have a little hole in the floor that just runs into the basement and on out a drain or something. We can think of it as a giant intestine and colon and rectum...after all this is the section of the house where the sun don't shine! (ta da dum)
Fortunately we have great friends and resources so the water was being caught in buckets...the water was being sopped up from the carpet, the snowplow guy removed some ice and snow and relieved the remaining water from under the ice...Leo will be over this morning to take a look see as well...whew.
Oh yeah...rumor has it there will be a foot or more MORE snow up there by tomorrow night.
Hmmmm...makes me wonder if we'll get home Sat morning "on time". The airlines are taking a hit with all these weather issues and I can "understand" both sides of an issue..being a passenger most of the time, I just want to go where I'm going especially if it's home. That's not to say some mistakes weren't made in the last storm and some risks were taken that didn't pan out. I remember being loaded on a plane recently where our flight crew told us there was a flight delay due to poor visibility...however, the captain wanted us loaded and ready to depart if he had a window of opportunity granted us. Yup, me too.
...and BTW, the media just loves to kick a guy when he is down. Yup, Jetblue took a major hit with it's customers and the media didn't help. Where was the media during the last storm that fouled up JFK and caused more flights to be canceled...for sure they were reporting 68 flights being canceled by JetBlue ( gee how about the other airlines opperating out of JFK?) Oh? What's this...did no one but JetBlue personnel notice that 16people from Burlington VT wanted to fly to Florida but would have normally had to go through JFK...where was the media when Jetblue took that plane straight from VT to FL bypassing JFK, huh? Huh?? No where to be found....JetBlue still has great customer service.....and they would have done that even before the Valentines Day Massacre. sigh...I really dislike the media.
At anyrate...on to the good news. While here this week, Kieran and I have become another year older...who cares if I have 54 years on him. Whoa... Last Saturday, Greg and I celebrated my birthday with lunch at the revolving restaurant at the top of the Space Needle. Greg can finally check that off his things to do in Seattle besides work list. Sunday night we celebrated my birthday again with dinner at a Thai restaurant nearby with my big brother, Lon and my SIL, Charlotte. (Charlotte made me a hand towel with flamingoes embroidered on it.) My birthday celebration will continue next week as we fly west again to Maui...now that is ONE flight I won't mind.
In the meantime...today is laundry day...whew...Someone is out of light blue oxford shirts...what will we do, what will we do.
Have a good day all.........
Posted by frani at March 1, 2007 12:33 PM
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Hey, not fair, I want to dine in the revolving restuarant as well. I'm glad you had a good birthday celebration which continues.
I still like JetBlue. You're right, I didn't hear other airlines come up with a customer Bill of Rights.
Posted by: Dru ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.frani.net/weblog3//nav-commenters.gif)
at March 2, 2007 04:43 PM
Happy Birthday, young one. Does the fact that you celebrated 2 times mean you have to add two to your age? : )
Posted by: Tonya at March 3, 2007 01:40 PM
DA...we can go the next time we are in Seattle....
Posted by: Risa at March 16, 2007 04:20 PM
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