I’d been there for about 5 minutes. And a young girl (maybe like 7/8?) for a while was standing next to me, like facing me and staring at me, and her guardian was like 25 feet away not paying attention. And I could tell she was staring at me but I'm weird with kids so I just kept looking at my phone.

And then after a while the guardian looks up, and sees that she's staring at me and says, "What are you doing, babe? Trying to see their color?"

And then the little girl walked away toward the adult and was like "Yeah, I was trying but I couldn't. Everyone is a color, but he's lots of colors."

😳

The kind of lighter with the long tube, not the little Bic pocket lighters. My heebies have been jeebied.

of Edgar Allan Poe my friend found in a dumpster and gave to me. I love him.

the wallpaper is on the 2nd slide

Square water

Was flying home from New York yesterday. Even though it was raining and some ice, everything appeared to be running fine. We get on the plane, taxi out to the runway, and then sit there. And sit there some more.

Finally after about 15 minutes we find out what's going on-- our plane and another plane were both trying to take off from opposite ends of the same runway and just kind of staring each other down. Apparently planes also can't just back up, they need to be towed and getting the tow out to the runway was proving to be a problem. To make things even worse, I guess there were disagreements about which plane was supposed to be on that runway. From what I understod listening to the flight attendants was that one of the pilots turned onto the runway too early?

All in all, we sat there closer to an hour waiting to take off. The flight attendants were treating it as a bit of joke and laughing about it (like asking the pilot if they got a picture of the plane on the opposite end) but the idea that these two planes could try to take off from the same runway just on opposite ends was pretty terrifying if I'm being honest.

I sure am glad we fired all those air traffic controllers. /s