Its a rainy Sunday which means lazy blogging time on the media room sofa here at the homestead – perfect for catching up on my weekly update. Its too wet and stormy to be on either of the porches so I’m curled up under a blanket with my tea and enjoying a bit of downtime…
Its not easy being geek. I learned that at a very young age when my preschool class at the museum was two girls and twelve boys… it might have been all the time learning the names of various dinosaurs and reptiles that fascinated me so.. I further fleshed it out when most of my elementary school…
I was lucky enough today to grab a seat on one of the American 787 Dreamliner flights on the inaugural day. I used the Same Day Change feature yesterday to grab one of the open seats on the 12:10 pm return ORD-DFW segment. And I’m awfully glad I did. Not only was it a bucket list…
#avgeeks rejoice!!! Today is the launch of the new American 787 Dreamliner service with an inaugural flight this morning from Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago O’Hare. I had a chance to preview this aircraft last week and she’s a true beauty. I’ll be joining the flip side of today’s inaugural service – meeting the arrival in…
If you are traveling in 2015, what you need to do this weekend is take a look at your current airline and hotel program use and make appropriate adjustments to your earning to be sure you are maximizing status opportunities. With eight months left, you still have plenty of time to make travel plans that…
Last night I had the amazing opportunity to attend a customer preview event for the new American 787 Dreamliner. The inaugural flight takes place next Thursday, but this week was a chance to explore the plane while she still has her new plane smell. The preview event was held in a hangar on the east…
Uber is hailed by many as the example of what the service workforce of the future could be. On demand, scalable, inexpensive, and easily replaceable. That last part is the ugly side of the ridesharing economy. While my adventures in driving have been few and far between since my “how much does a driver make” experiment…
I like Bali. The part I like most is the part that is less traversed. It seems like everyone has been to the southern part of the island. And more individuals have discovered Ubud since Elizabeth Gilbert put it on the map in Eat Pray Love. But a majority of visitors to this island paradise…
I’m back… or rather, my online presence is. While I have been here and as busy as ever, my digital life has been cramped thanks to the health of not one but BOTH of my personal computers. First my Mac decided to go into critical care mode just as I was working on my taxes. (Not…
Ten dollars. Ten lousy dollars. That’s the margin by which I feel that the valet at the Crescent Hotel in Dallas (a Rosewood luxury property) decided to draw a line in the sand about valet charges on Thursday night. Let me explain… I went to the Crescent after work with plans to attend an alumni…
My personal laptop died this week, mere minutes after I had just moved everything on my local drive to Dropbox. The timing couldn’t have been stranger. The screen went black and then when I tried to reboot it, smoke started coming out of the keyboard. My Mac had met a similar fate a couple months…
This isn’t new, but it doesn’t ever fail to make me laugh when I see one of these in my social media feed. And finally I saw the full collection from Buzzfeed and realized that some of the real gems had not yet caught my attention. Yes, I get a kick out of how people…