[ale] Semi-OT: I'm changing my name to Griswald...
Dow Hurst
dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Wed Feb 12 11:12:55 EST 2003
Why not put off the move for one day and enjoy the life the rest of us
lead? :-)
Dow
Robert L. Harris wrote:
> The jokes about traveling with me are a standing thing in my family.
>ANY time I take any kind of trip of consequence, especially flying,
>SOMETHING happens. We were going to fly to a very small town in Alabama
>that NEVER has a full flight. My inlaws have been flying there for 7
>years and never seen a flight more than 3/4 full. I go to the airport
>and it seems a tropical storm in Florida has blocked out an airport and
>everyone going to Panama City is flying to Dothan Alabama instead since
>it's only a 4 hour drive from Panama... Of course.
>
> Trips to Florida to visit my family end up with a hurricane hitting
>out of nowhere, trips to Vegas involve bizzare weather, flight patterns,
>etc, you name it.
>
> Crap like that always happens. Even with just daily life. Went to
>buy a house and closing was yesterday. Almost walked a way from it
>because of the crap with the lawer that "Never Happens" according to the
>mortgage broker. Knowing my luck and the rep this broker has with our
>family I believed him though and put up with everything.
>
> Well, we were scheduled to move in on Friday afternoon. Sweet, that
>means we can go to the Key Signing Party (My wife was going as well out
>of some kinda morbid curiosity like you go to the zoo to watch polar
>bears swim in ice water)... Crap. It turns out the other family is
>going to be out at Noon on Thurs so we're moving thursday instead.
>Blah. Getting out of my in-laws spare room and a quarter and into our
>own house has over ridden the ale meeting.
>
> In the next two years we're gonna take a European Vacation, I'm
>gonna change my name to griswald and have National Lampoon credits put
>on my tombstone. Hell, why not.
>
>So much for that meeting :<
> Robert
>
>
>:wq!
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>Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B
> @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
>DISCLAIMER:
> These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.
>FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
>
>
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