There’s a simple list of rules in my house; Rule #1 Always Come Home Rule #2 See rule #1 Picked up a day trip on overtime yesterday. Simple 4 hour 40 minute turn. I debated picking it up….then I saw the weatherman said the weather would be horrible ALL DAY…that sealed the deal. I was [...]

So when I put in my preferences for February I was on the island of Maui…on vacation. I didn’t really think about much beyond maximum days off and domestic only flying. I got what I wanted…18 days off, domestic only…but almost all flying is in the cold states. Ick. So over the last few days [...]

Done with my awesome month of stellar 3 day trips. I loved the sequences. They were all the same…and easy. Since I did the same trips, and thus stayed in the same hotels (at one hotel the exact same room each week….a little odd), I decided to pack my food for the trip. Instead of [...]

I got back from Hawaii on Thursday morning. All day Thursday I was in a fog. Every year since 2008 I have gone to the North American Autoshow in Detroit. It’s my annual pilgrimage. To be open…I go to about 5 autoshows a year….only a few different cars at each one. Eh. Anyways the public show [...]

Question : Yesterday I was on a flight from Houston to Omaha and apparently the ground crew loaded too much fuel.  Consequently, we taxied out to the end of the runway, but then sat off to the side while the captain ran the engines up to burn off the excess.  We probably sat there about [...]

Had a great vacation on the Island of Maui. Getting there was easy thanks to open flights. Getting back…not so easy. My wife and daughter had real tickets both ways. The return flight started filling up a few days ago. The day prior it was overbooked. Another airline cancelled a flight and thus filled up [...]