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Kasia April 16th, 2008
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A curtsy and a fiddle-dee-dee to Father Erik, who needs to clean up his potty mouth.
Archive for April, 2008
Memos to the brainiacs at…
Kasia April 15th, 2008
- El Paso International Airport. I appreciate that, being in Mountain Time, you have to start things pretty early to catch the connecting flights 2 hours ahead in Atlanta. However, if you simply MUST schedule flights for 6:30 a.m. (thus necessitating my being at the airport by 5:30, and up by 4:00 or so if I am not to punish my fellow passengers with stank), would you PLEASE not put the one and only Starbucks immediately before the security checkpoint? I’m only allowed 3 ounces of liquid, remember, and that venti iced caramel macchiato that I set my heart on when I dragged my sorry behind out of bed? Yeah. A lot more than 3 ounces.
At least talk to Starbucks about putting a little kiosk somewhere behind Security. I am very sure it would do a lively business, especially considering that their main competition would be the coffee at Tortilla Flats.
- Delta Airlines. Look here. I was initially very pleased with your service except for the 6:30 flight, but one can’t have everything; and yes, I did buy the ticket. Oh, and the arbitrary schedule change a week after booking, wherein you made us go through Atlanta both ways instead of through Atlanta once and through Salt Lake City once. But OK; I get it; schedules change.
But when I was sitting, exhausted, in the Atlanta airport with my possibly even more exhausted beloved, having your employees make INCREDIBLY LOUD near-constant announcements about every flight that might be affecting that cluster of gates at the end of the concourse…
And when I was hearing that you had oversold just about every flight that was going out of our part of the concourse, including ours…
And then when the flight was delayed because it hadn’t arrived yet…
And then when you told us the plane had arrived, but then ten minutes later told us that it had to have maintenance done, so the flight would be delayed ANOTHER half hour or so…
All obnoxiously under-enunciated but over-amplified (so much so that I borrowed my beloved’s noise-cancelling earphones and was STILL hearing your near-constant announcements at normal volume)…
…and I had ample time to reflect that the privilege of being tormented thus (on very little sleep, mind you) cost over $200 per person…
…well, let’s just say that the extraordinarily kind flight attendant once we actually got to board the plane and fly out was probably still not kind enough to keep me from doing my darndest not to fly Delta again.
But if anyone else flies Delta in the near future and doesn’t want their snack, get a couple of packs of the Biscoff cookies for me. Yum!
- Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. See the above admonition to Delta and make note of the parts of it for which you’re at least partly responsible, like the painfully maladjusted speaker volume. Although I will say that your concessions are about a hundred light-years better than El Paso’s. (They’d better be, considering that you’re the busiest airport in the world…)
- Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Guys, you did fine with that new McNamara Terminal. But what on earth were you thinking when you put the acid-trip lights and the New Age meditation music in that obligatory tunnel between security and the concourses????! Maybe you thought it was relaxing, but it made me want to tear off my skin and stuff it into my ears so I didn’t have to hear it. Yes, even on the way out of Detroit last Tuesday, when I wasn’t dead tired.
More posting to come in the next few days, as I have time…
In case you were wondering…
Kasia April 12th, 2008
…yes, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. The Canuck and I are currently in the self-named “Land of Enchantment,” New Mexico, visiting my mother. (Isn’t he a good sport?)
I am sure this visit will bear much posting fruit, once I’ve had a chance to settle down and digest the events. In the near future, you may be seeing such posts as “The ugliest but sweetest dog in the world,” “Yes, my mother thinks certain heretics should be saints,” and the ever-popular “How many pictures can you take of the same scrubby mountains?”
Toodles – see you soon!
Um, honey?
Kasia April 4th, 2008
We’re never going to Australia.
Ever.
Nor are we going back to the Everglades to watch Walt the airboat pilot lure out gators with marshmallows and then wrassle ‘em.
On the tiny off chance that you persuade me to go to Australia, we are not leaving the city.
On the even smaller off chance that you get me to Australia and persuade me to leave the city, we are not getting out of the car.
And if a croc ever happens to attack me while you’re present and you DON’T do what that Aussie guy did, I swear I will haunt you.
Let’s toast this couple next time we go to Outback.
Ack – more prayer requests
Kasia April 1st, 2008
It blows my mind sometimes, how so many people can have so much trouble at once. It’s like the Devil has launched a massive offensive or something.
In addition to the other prayer requests I posted, would you please try to spare some prayers for my friend’s mom? Her name is Millie, and she’s been in the hospital for the past week. Kidney failure. This happened five years ago also, and she pulled through then, but kidney failure’s no joke, so…
(While you’re at it, please say a prayer for her doctors – from what I’ve heard, she’s a notoriously ornery patient. :-p)
That same friend’s husband got laid off quite a long time ago, and he’s just had an interview, so Deo gratias! If you get a moment, please say a prayer of thanksgiving, and a prayer for him to get the job?
Thanks…so much need, so little time!
Soup & Supper at the seminary
Kasia April 1st, 2008
Since I know what a fan Heather P. is of Bishop Flores, I thought I’d post this information for her and anyone else who wants to know…
On Cinco de Mayo (that’s May 5, my fellow non-Spanish-speakers), from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Sacred Heart Major Seminary is hosting a Soup & Supper “evening of reflection” featuring a talk by Bishop Flores. The topic is “A Few Reflections on the History of Mexico.” The event is open to the public, but RSVP is requested: (313) 883-8533 by April 30. They do suggest a donation of $20 to cover costs (you’d be amazed at what catering costs, even for something as simple as bread and soup), but that’s a suggested donation, so if you really ain’t got it, I don’t think they’ll turn you away.
Perhaps Grandma would be willing to watch the kids and let Mom and Dad have a quiet evening at the seminary?
