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I missed the opening ceremonies and wish I could have seen it. Hopefully, Phil's little sister gets well soon. Today was so filled, that I am finally in San Francisco and I just need to get some well deserved sleep. Sleep is good. I didn't get nearly enough of it last night. For some reason I had a hard time falling asleep, and then had to get up early because I have church today. And like I said before, try searching online for video footage of the ceremonies. WHAAAAAATTTTTTTT???????? No mention of Phil in your post? There was nothing new to report about him between when my last two posts. He was sleeping at that time. Now, on the other hand..... After church, I spent pretty much the whole day with him. Phil, Jazzy, and I all went to his mom's house to hang out for the day with his two little (half?) sisters, which was fun times. One is 12 and the other is 5. We spent most of the time playing video games and just being silly in general, and it was a great day overall. It was kinda fun to see Phil interacting with his younger sisters. I don't really want kids, but I know that if someday we get married and have kids anyways, Phil is going to make a wonderful father. Saying good bye at the end of the day is getting harder and harder, knowing that Phil is going back to college soon. Today was probably our longest goodbye yet, and I found myself once again crying as I drove home. Phil looked like he was very near tears too. I'm not sure what kind of shape I'm going to be in the first few weeks we're apart, but this is harder than I expected. You will be going to be making lots of trips to his school. I can see this already.

Ooh fun. Fed-ex pays for your hotel stays, I assume? We are cheap airline pilots... they have to pay or else we would be sleeping in the jet. Actually that is one of the great benefits of the job, you get to go to fun places and if the schedule permits, you can do a little sight seeing. For example, we got in last night and do not leave until 04H00 local time Tuesday morning. So, I will have today and tomorrow to have some fun. I've been wanting to ask you this for a while... Do you find it easier being a cargo airline pilot knowing you don't have the lives of hundreds as you would if you were a passanger airline pilot? Don't even consider it. We carry a few 'jumpseaters' (passengers), but even if it is only myself and my first officer, we always have safety as our primary concern which is the same as the passenger airlines. Pilots always err on the side of caution/safety, so what is in the back does not matter. When passengers come into a pilot's consideration is when there are delays, or a deviation to another destination because of weather or mechanical, now you have to advise them of what is happening. Hope this helps. Makes sense to me. Airplane crashes are no fun, regardless of who or what is involved. An airplane crash could ruin your whole day.

Ummm, I'm not a people, so I will wait to see what the people say. hey, hamsters is people Too.. :rolleyes: *caught* I guess for a hamster, I can type pretty well. LOL

Banana!!!!! Hammerhead shark or Tiger shark? Hammerhead Shark. They have awesome-shaped heads. Text Smileys (like o_o) or Board smileys (like ) Board smilies! Dell or Gateway? In the interest of this topic not dying, I arbitrarily pick Dell. Lava lamps or fiber optic lamps? (I would have said Neither. LOL) Lava lamps. Sunrises or sunsets? Me too, but we're not allowed to say neither. oooh....both are so pretty...sunrises tend to be prettier, but in the interest of not being awake that early in the morning, I pick sunsets. kilts or togas? Do I really have to choose? OK, I choose kilts. They're hardcore. Top Hats or Flat Caps? Top hats.... Not greatest quality pic but whatever... MIT or Northwestern? ~Liz Northwestern. Huge house in need of renovation, or tiny high-tech studio apartment? Tiny high-tech studio apartment. River view or mountain view? Mountain view. "yellow submarine" or "octopus's garden" (the songs) ~Liz Octopus' garden... definitely!!! Snow or rain? SNOW good bye or see you later? Most definitely see you later. Cotton or Wool?

I searched and it was interesting that many sites had the opening ceremony video removed due to copyright violations. Saw a little bit of it on a Dutch website. Incredible. Sorry I missed it.

Beautiful pictures! Thanks for posting those.

Banana!!!!! Hammerhead shark or Tiger shark? Hammerhead Shark. They have awesome-shaped heads. Text Smileys (like o_o) or Board smileys (like ) Board smilies! Dell or Gateway? In the interest of this topic not dying, I arbitrarily pick Dell. Lava lamps or fiber optic lamps? (I would have said Neither. LOL) Lava lamps. Sunrises or sunsets? Me too, but we're not allowed to say neither. oooh....both are so pretty...sunrises tend to be prettier, but in the interest of not being awake that early in the morning, I pick sunsets. kilts or togas? Do I really have to choose? OK, I choose kilts. They're hardcore. Top Hats or Flat Caps? Top hats.... Not greatest quality pic but whatever... MIT or Northwestern? ~Liz Northwestern. Huge house in need of renovation, or tiny high-tech studio apartment? Tiny high-tech studio apartment. River view or mountain view? Mountain view. "yellow submarine" or "octopus's garden" (the songs) ~Liz Octopus' garden... definitely!!! Snow or rain?

Ummm, I'm not a people, so I will wait to see what the people say.

Granted, but it was only a slight bit less disgusting, and you still thought taking people's eyes out with sporks was amusing. I wish for a pony. Granted, but it would be a dead pony. I wish for a better bitrate on mah internets. Granted, but then your computer would be the size of a house, and you would need to run around a human hamster wheel for an hour just to start it up. I wish TBFOF would make a wish. I wish I would stop forgetting to wish! Gah. But now I didn't grant yours. Granted, but my wish would be so stupid that all you could do is laugh and won't be able to post a corruption because it is that stupid and you will laugh at me, forever. Granted, but now you will have a million wishes and won't be able to choose just one.

There is a human involved here? Of course not! MW! You bad girl. Underage drinking is bad enough, but to get that drunk that you would say such a thing is just horrific. Tisk tisk tisk! LOL

Banana!!!!! Hammerhead shark or Tiger shark? Hammerhead Shark. They have awesome-shaped heads. Text Smileys (like o_o) or Board smileys (like ) Board smilies! Dell or Gateway? In the interest of this topic not dying, I arbitrarily pick Dell. Lava lamps or fiber optic lamps? (I would have said Neither. LOL) Lava lamps. Sunrises or sunsets? Me too, but we're not allowed to say neither. oooh....both are so pretty...sunrises tend to be prettier, but in the interest of not being awake that early in the morning, I pick sunsets. kilts or togas? Do I really have to choose? OK, I choose kilts. They're hardcore. Top Hats or Flat Caps? Top hats.... Not greatest quality pic but whatever... MIT or Northwestern? ~Liz Northwestern. Huge house in need of renovation, or tiny high-tech studio apartment? Tiny high-tech studio apartment. River view or mountain view?

There is a human involved here?

Granted, but it was only a slight bit less disgusting, and you still thought taking people's eyes out with sporks was amusing. I wish for a pony. Granted, but it would be a dead pony. I wish for a better bitrate on mah internets. Granted, but then your computer would be the size of a house, and you would need to run around a human hamster wheel for an hour just to start it up. I wish TBFOF would make a wish.

Ooh fun. Fed-ex pays for your hotel stays, I assume? We are cheap airline pilots... they have to pay or else we would be sleeping in the jet. Actually that is one of the great benefits of the job, you get to go to fun places and if the schedule permits, you can do a little sight seeing. For example, we got in last night and do not leave until 04H00 local time Tuesday morning. So, I will have today and tomorrow to have some fun. I've been wanting to ask you this for a while... Do you find it easier being a cargo airline pilot knowing you don't have the lives of hundreds as you would if you were a passanger airline pilot? Don't even consider it. We carry a few 'jumpseaters' (passengers), but even if it is only myself and my first officer, we always have safety as our primary concern which is the same as the passenger airlines. Pilots always err on the side of caution/safety, so what is in the back does not matter. When passengers come into a pilot's consideration is when there are delays, or a deviation to another destination because of weather or mechanical, now you have to advise them of what is happening. Hope this helps.

Drinking some road tar coffee and reading the paper.

Eating something and riding the cable car.

I missed the opening ceremonies and wish I could have seen it. Hopefully, Phil's little sister gets well soon. Today was so filled, that I am finally in San Francisco and I just need to get some well deserved sleep. Sleep is good. I didn't get nearly enough of it last night. For some reason I had a hard time falling asleep, and then had to get up early because I have church today. And like I said before, try searching online for video footage of the ceremonies. WHAAAAAATTTTTTTT???????? No mention of Phil in your post?

Ooh fun. Fed-ex pays for your hotel stays, I assume? We are cheap airline pilots... they have to pay or else we would be sleeping in the jet. Actually that is one of the great benefits of the job, you get to go to fun places and if the schedule permits, you can do a little sight seeing. For example, we got in last night and do not leave until 04H00 local time Tuesday morning. So, I will have today and tomorrow to have some fun.

You can probably find video footage of it online without too much trouble. I plan on doing exactly that.

Today I had to do a little work... I flew from Memphis to Indianapolis, hopped out of the plane for about 30 minutes and then took off from Indianapolis and headed for Oakland, California. Now we are staying in the hotel in San Francisco. Tomorrow I will wander around and take pictures if anyone wants.

I was so excited that I forgot to say... Welcome Back. Please do hang around for a while. Were you talking to me? o__o Of course... I always want you to hang around for a while.

Definitely sleep.

Flying the airplane from Memphis to Indianapolis to Oakland, California. Now we are in the hotel in San Francisco.

I missed the opening ceremonies and wish I could have seen it. Hopefully, Phil's little sister gets well soon. Today was so filled, that I am finally in San Francisco and I just need to get some well deserved sleep.

I would have liked to watch the opening ceremonies, but I was unable.