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Year: 2004

Brokaw/Jennings

(Hat tip CableNewser)

Tom Brokaw’s reaction to Dan Rather’s announcement: “Dan has
always been a tough but fair competitor and a boon companion on our many common
travels. I wish him well. Maybe we should get an old anchors bench together in
Central Park and feed the pigeons?!”

Peter Jennings
reflected on Rather’s tenure during WNT. “There are not many newsmen in America
who have seen as much or traveled as widely in pursuit of a story,” Jennings
said.

Blah blah blah blah…

Home, finally.

Got home around 1 PM today, after the “travel from hell” experience yesterday. Life back to normal. Blogging to resume, momentarily.

Travel Day Hell

If you were traveling on Monday, November 22nd, there were only two places in the US NOT to be. San Antonio and Houston Texas. Why? Because it’s now 1:27 AM, and I am sitting in the “E” terminal at Houston International Airport after missing my 8:50 PM flight to Seattle. Next flight to Seattle? 7:40 AM. You see, the Houston airport closed down due to severe weather issues, and that messed EVERYTHING up. Yes, I mean EVERYTHING. So now, I’m suffering. Do you realize how tough it is to sleep in an airport chair? I mean they give you these stinking airplane blankets and pillows, which are made of the cheapest most flimsy materials. They turn the television (playing CNN and the Weather Channel) up way too loud. The maintenance crew is polishing the floor, emptying trash, and being overly noisy. There’s more of course, but that’s all I can bare to type out at this hour. Yeah, there’s WIFI, but it costs money…crap, I’m miserable.

And I have a middle seat for the flight home at 7:40 AM, and a two hour drive once I get to Seattle.

Could it be worse? Yes. Do I care to think of how it could be worse right now? No. I’m at fricken capacity right now.

I HATE TRAVELING.

Notice

For the next day or so, I’ll be mostly unable to blog. Tomorrow is my last day in San Antonio, then it is the travel back home, ending sometime around 2 AM pacific time. I should be able to pick things up again on Tuesday. For those of you who stop by regularly…thanks for reading, and I’ll get back to the normal double digit postings soon.

Pullin Out His Can o’ Whupass

This is just one of reasons why I think George W. Bush rocks. No other president would have stopped, walked back, and rescued one of his Secret Service agents after he was being hassled by police in a foreign country.