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October 31, 2008
Hello Halloween
I got a little bit more time until I have to say goodbye to October.
For your reading pleasure, interesting facts about Dave's song Halloween.
I had two on-time, first class flights home today, two stellar crews, spent my time between flights in Atlanta having Qdoba vegetarian nachos, listening to the woman play the baby grand in the E concourse, and having a delightful conversation in Spanish with Diego, a 18-month old little boy who was standing on the other side of the countertop table where I was eating.
Diego was on his way to London, but seemed way more interested in the straw he was chewing on.
After I ate, I strolled back to the B concourse, talked to my brother, my mom, and left a message for my sister; and wandered to my gate.
(For Halloween today I was dressed as a hopeful Cubs fan.)
At the gate, a man approached me and said, "ah, the Cubs fan I almost knocked over in the E concourse."
Seemed to me I would have remembered almost being knocked over. Maybe not. Tough to say. So I said what came to my mind.
"Huh?"
He made his claim again and then proceeded to launch into a lengthy story about his experiences with the Chicago Cubs.
Without taking a breath it seems, he then told me all about his work, and told me he was on a project from hell.
Then proceeded to describe, in detail, the hell.
The Delta agent called him to the podium, and when he got back he announced to me that the agent had told him to wait to board because he may be upgraded.
Then he just kept on talking. Meanwhile he starts digging in his bag and hands me a business card.
It didn't do much to answer my unspoken question of "who the hell are you?"
Fortunately they called for boarding not long after that, so I excused myself from the one-sided conversation and got on the plane.
Wheels down less than an hour later. No bags checked, Jalepeno at the front of the garage, and no traffic on the highway.
Home.
I turned on the computer and checked my email. Happy to see there were just a couple of new ones, and nothing that needed attention today.
So I shut that down, then went and browsed pondring's stats page.
It's been a busy October. And when I bothered to look to the column on the right, I see its possible pondring will reach 100,000 hits here by the end of the year.
Huh.
That's kind of cool.
And it's also kind of funny, because I don't know who the hell you guys are, either.
Well, that's not entirely true. I think I could now name over 10 of you.
The rest, who's to say.
Happy Halloween, either way.
Posted by Angela Tanner at October 31, 2008 10:27 PM