Last night when I was flying home and the fellow in the seat next to me was talking about how awful the situation in Iceland was with the whole country blanketed by ash. It’s not. I explained that the area affected by Eyjafjallajökul is very small and that Europe is getting most of the ash […]
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I got home shortly after midnight with much relief. My flight out of Minneapolis boarded about ten minutes late, delayed first because we had no flight attendants. Their flight out of Atlanta had been delayed due to weather so they were racing to get to us. Since this flight was also very full they offered
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I’m in Minneapolis until 9:15 tonight. My flight from Madison — which I actually boarded — was delayed taking off but not badly. When we were approaching Minneapolis however, we started circling after they told us that we were ready for final descent. Eventually they explained that they were having problems with the hydraulics and
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My flight out today was also oversold, so I volunteered to be bumped again. Really, this is not a hardship because Madison is a pleasant place to spend time and I have plenty of portable work with me. Plus, may I say that travel vouchers come in really handy when you consider how much time
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Here’s an excerpt of the first official review of Shades of Milk and Honey from Joe Sherry of Adventures in Reading. No matter whether one comes into Shades of Milk and Honey as an unabashed fan of Jane Austen or, like me, avoids the stuff like the plague, Mary Robinette Kowal has delivered a debut novel
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And lo! Still I am in Madison. My flight was oversold so I volunteered to be bumped. I travel enough that those credit vouchers come in veeeeerrrry handy. My flight out isn’t until tomorrow morning so I’m hanging out, getting some writing done and just generally pretending that I’m on that thing I’ve heard people