Monday, August 14, 2006
Vacations are interesting ...
My son is on leave from the Marine Corps so I've taken a few days off.
Delta Airlines started the parade by canceling his flight out of Sanddog (SAN). No terrorists, no unlabeled hand cream — insufficient crew, i.e., they couldn't find a steward/stewardess that could fly. Delta rejected an offer made by my son to serve drinks in her/his stead. Then the replacement flight was delayed by three hours to change a part. I believe in safe flight, but I also believe in competent maintenance, a pilot shouldn't be in the position of canceling a takeoff because maintenance wasn't done properly.
Way to go, Delta. Save money by using idiots for maintenance!
Friday night/Saturday morning: enroute to drop David off at his mother's farm, the Bigdragon decided to lose acceleration. Made it back in second gear.
Today: after dropping housemate off (again in second) I'll be dropping by Fleet Transmissions.
OK, the font size won't change. Reminder to me: don't change font sizes for emphasis.
Edit: HTML finally corrected -- lwj on 13 April 2008
Delta Airlines started the parade by canceling his flight out of Sanddog (SAN). No terrorists, no unlabeled hand cream — insufficient crew, i.e., they couldn't find a steward/stewardess that could fly. Delta rejected an offer made by my son to serve drinks in her/his stead. Then the replacement flight was delayed by three hours to change a part. I believe in safe flight, but I also believe in competent maintenance, a pilot shouldn't be in the position of canceling a takeoff because maintenance wasn't done properly.
Way to go, Delta. Save money by using idiots for maintenance!
Friday night/Saturday morning: enroute to drop David off at his mother's farm, the Bigdragon decided to lose acceleration. Made it back in second gear.
Today: after dropping housemate off (again in second) I'll be dropping by Fleet Transmissions.
OK, the font size won't change. Reminder to me: don't change font sizes for emphasis.
Edit: HTML finally corrected -- lwj on 13 April 2008
# posted by Curmudgeon @ 11:13 
