Flanders Meets His Canadian Counterpart

Flurries!

This morning we are having a few snow flurries pass through the area. When I woke up, I took the picture to the right. A few small waves of flakes have fallen since then. In addition to the flakes, it's cold! The temperature is below 30! That's nothing, because in January it's likely to be in the single digits! Winter is coming!

DooDoo Nickelback

Frank reads digg.com daily, and he found a posting about the band Nickelback. Check out this website:

http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm

The link simultaneously plays two Nickelback songs. The best part is that blending the two songs sounds like a new Nickelback song. Pretty funny. Even better, the songs are two years apart, so Nickelback made no progress in two years!

"Woo-hah!! I got you all in check"

"...And you know we come through to wreck the discotheque! . . . I got that head nod snapping and then you break your neck!"

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Toshiba has made a new, smaller (ha!) VR helmet. Check out the CNN article about the device here.

Nik and Erin are Married!

This weekend, I went to help Nik and Erin celebrate their wedding in Cincinnati. Nik and Erin are on their way to Paris for the week. An early morning CNN news story scared the newlyweds with reports of blackouts sweeping across France and other European countries. It seems that the blackouts are getting resolved, so I expect that Nik and Erin will not be affected by their trip. I wish them the best, and I hope they enjoy their honeymoon!

Now, for my day. Can you think of a better way to spend about 7 hours than in Cincinnati's airport? I can. How about not spending those hours in Terminal 1. CVG punished US Airways Express flights by sequestering them to the most boring terminal at the airport. Get this, Terminal 1 has no food other than vending machines. Sure, you can leave for another Terminal to get some grub, but when you're departure time is 8pm and you want to make another connection, the last connection, to Ithaca, NY leaving the terminal isn't at the top of your list--stand by means you need to hang around, especially when the flights begin to have delays. Anyway, the good news is that it's 7:35pm, and I am in Philadelphia. The sort-of bad news is that the next flight to Ithaca is still at 10:40, so I have to wait it out. The up side is that I won't miss my connection--I'm already here! Better yet, I just had a Cuban sandwich and a Yuengling. A quick check on my originally scheduled flight, leaving Cincinnati at 7:44pm, and I see that it's on its way here--on time. So, I could have stuck it out, but a good beer washes away the bad taste of Terminal 1; that's totally the better end of the stick. I'm glad I made to Philadelphia early! One more flight, and I'll be home to Julia! Hooray!