Howcum nobody told us there was gonna be a Nor'easter in NJ when we booked our flight last month!? Well, here we are at Mom's in Westminster, 24 hours longer than we'd planned. She's delighted of course. I wonder how she managed to influence the weather... But she has dial-up, which at this moment is giving me a big 24k connection. :Jayzus: So I just dropped by to say hi, I'll be back when I get home to my cable connection tomorrow (providing my house hasn't washed away).
Westminster! Use to live not far over the Georgia border from there. Anyway, Forbin, we'll leave the light on for ya - at least you're not rotting away in a stinking, filth-encrusted plane that's been sitting on the ramp for eighteen hours with you in it.
Leaving Tuesday morning. And since we're here for an extra day with nothing to do, Mom decided to entertain us by falling downand breaking her arm. We just spent four hours in the Oconee Memorial emergency room. And my neighbor who's taking care of the dog called to tell us our basement is taking some water Mary's wondering what she did wrong (beside marry me) to deserve such an exciting vacation.
Final report, as emailed to my posse: We're back. And a worse way to spend a "vacation" weekend is hard to imagine. Mary's not pleased about being trapped in a house with my Mother for a couple of days in the first place, but then our flight home Monday got canceled because of the storm in the northeast (we missed the whole thing down there). So Mom got us for an extra day, which made her happy, Mary miserable, and me tense. So what could top that? After a "nice family lunch" with my sister Monday afternoon, Mom fell in the parking lot and broke her arm! Four hours in the Okonee Memorial emergency room. I can't think of a good way to describe the people in the waiting room. One guy was the total cliche shitkicker, with the straw cowboy hat, pony tail, scruffy beard, thumbs hitched in his jeans. Looked like he was five seconds from square dancing. I was surprised he didn't have a bit of straw in his mouth. Another guy looked like a lumber jack axe murderer, and he kept going out for a smoke and staring in the window. He probably couldn't even see in, but he was staring right. at. me. And what can you say about white folks with a little blonde girl named "Cheyennelle?" So Mom had a not-very-serious fracture right at the shoulder-end of her humerus, and eventually they bound it with straps and told her to keep it immobilized for four months. And my lovely wife and I had to spend the rest of the day helping Mom get used to doing things left-handed. Thank GOD she figured out the bathroom thing herself! But Mary was muttering such things as "We're never coming here again," and "I'd rather shoot myself." Oh, and I've had a miserable cold for the whole weekend and couldn't sleep and breath at the same time. The plane home was delayed an hour, my ears refused to equalize so I spent half the flight in ear pain unable to hear anything but the higher registers (I honestly thought they'd turned the engines off for a second!), and the limo driver was 1/2 hour late picking us up at Newark. So we're finally home, and we don't wanna go ANYWHERE for a LONG time!
Maybe it'll cut down on people flying into the buildings across Rt 46! Oooh, wait, I know - we haven't had a good commercial seaplane base in NJ in a while!
Oh - wierd "small world" event: The airport shuttle we were riding in also had to stop to pick up a couple of college girls from Clemson on the way. We did the usual small talk on the way, including "so, where are you going? where are you from?" There we are 700 miles from home, and the one girl we meet lives one town away from us in NJ.
When the wife and I went on our honeymoon cruise last year, we were in a restaurant in Ushuaia, Argentina, and bumped in to a couple from Harrisonburg Virginia . . . which was where we'd gotten married.
Friend of mine from Rutherford, NJ honeymooned in Cancun. He was admiring the embossed metal dinner plates at their hotel. He flipped it over to see where it was made - Hackensack, NJ.
I knew there was a reason Luthor wanted to nuke Hackensack... Strange encounter here one time - ran into someone in California who I knew from high school - in North Carolina.
