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Lately I’ve been listening to a string quartet.  Here’s one of the pieces I like.

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Today is Dillon’s Birthday!  Have a great one, Dillon!

Have a great day!

Today is Heather’s Birthday!  Happy Birthday to you!!!

This is your birthday song…. it isn’t very long….

Today is Jeff’s Birthday!  Have a good one!

(Ok, so this is the look he had for Halloween last year, but it was such a good look, I just had to use it.  Sorry, Jeff)

Over on the Cottle Family blog recently, Holly Miller mentioned Mental Floss and posted a link to one of their articles about cold places. She reminded me how much I enjoy Mental Floss. Although I very seldom look at their stuff online, Mental Floss has been the first, and remains the only, magazine I actually read cover to cover.

Did you see the recent issue with articles on how to get to heaven? It was very informative: I found the Buddhism (“the ultimate purpose to all this is to be released from the endless cycle of samsara”) and Islam (“heaven is full of fountains, streams, gardens, and fruit trees…”) pieces particularly interesting. There was also a relatively accurate section on the Mormon view of getting to heaven (“Accessibility:  very good.  If you don’t accept Jesus (the Mormon way) on Earth, you’ll get another chance in the afterlife”). The Scientology stuff was interesting (“universal truth is different for everyone, and so is the afterlife”) as was the Jehovah’s Witness section (“space is limited”).  Baha’i is also mentioned (“worship is pretty informal… pray every day, fast once a year and regard work …. as a form of worship”).

A few issues ago they announced the Golden Lobe Awards for things like “Best Use of a Sick Day” (Rene Descartes) and “Most Misguided Marketing Scheme” (Dodge La Femme in 1955-56). J’Neil particularly liked the “Most Desirable Corpse in History” category (Abraham Lincoln).

We love Mental Floss….

Have a great day, Jodi!

So here’s the view out my window in Kennewick, WA the morning of Feb 3rd:

On the morning of Tuesday, Feb 5th, this is the view I had out my window in San Diego, CA.  Yes, that is a fairway!

The morning of Wednesday, Feb 6th, I’m back in Kennewick for this view out my window…. Dang, the snow has all melted away:

Then, the morning of Feb 8th, here’s the view I had from Lihue, HI.  No snow here and yes, that is the ocean:

Finally, the morning of Saturday, Feb 9th, from Princeville, HI.  In this view there is also the ocean…, and a fairway!

Last week I had the opportunity to travel on our corporate jet.  It was a short flight, only from Seattle to Portland.  The first picture is of the plane, Sandra Perez, Regional Marketing Manager is to the front, on the left is Marc Lower, Regional Vice President of Sales. Below is a picture of me on the plane. 

Some observations:

The corporate jet was relatively small:  It had seating for 8 (+ the pilot and copilot) configured as one seat on each side of the plane for four rows.  And the seats were nice leather seats, but not terribly roomy.  The first class seats on commercial airlines are bigger and more comfortable.  We filled all eight seats, and there was barely room for our luggage – which was stowed in a compartment on one side of the plane, between the passengers and the pilots.  It was a real challenge getting everything in there.

A plane ride is a plane ride:  There didn’t seem to be much difference between the ride of the small jet and commercial airliners.  The most noticeable was the acceleration, when the jet starts off down the runway; it really picks up speed in a hurry.  The force of the acceleration is much more noticeable in the small jet than the big airliners.

The best part about flying the corporate jet hasn’t got anything to do with the plane or the flying:  The best part is the boarding and disembarking.  Our car took us right up to the plane, no check in, no security id checks, no unpacking and repacking (undressing and dressing) at the x-ray machines, no lining up at the gate to get in early enough to use the overheads.  Just drive right to the plane and climb aboard.  Once we had landed, we had only a short 10 foot trek to the waiting car.  Now that’s the way to travel.