Weekend.. $$ and more

Well the weekend was WAY too quick. DMB was awesome at Hershey. They really put on a great show.

Some Personal Stats

60th Show - 1122 songs heard, 146 of them unique
Too Much - 37 times seen
Ants Marching - 24 times seen / 13 as a closer

thank you antsmarching.org

Songs I still want to hear::

HALLOWEEN!!!! - 0 times
Best of Whats Around - never enough
Last Stop - Never Enough
What You Are - time to bring it back


On to other things. I am pretty frustrated right now about money in general (who isn't). I can deal with what I have generally but it is tough because I know SS is struggling and wanting to do more things like a long vacation etc.. and I wish it was just easier. Looks like I am going to have to trade in 2 free flights to get 1 due to the high costs of flights right now. It is just frustrating.
Hopefully things will happen at work.. I was told we were getting a restructuring of our pay so I hope that means more $$.

It has rained so much lately.. we really haven't had much summer at all and it pretty much sucks.

Worst Flying Experence EVER

So I am sitting at the gate (in the plane) in Indianapolis and I have been on the plane now for over 1 hour and 15 min. This is the 3rd ground hold I have been on this week...

I left Pittsburgh yesterday at 3:45 so I was on the plane around 3:30. We taxied out and they put us on a ground hold because of traffic in Philly. YES I HAD TO fly to Philadelphia to get to Indianapolis. So I sat on the plane for over an hour. We finally took off and I arrived at 5:50 in Philly. Luckily the next plane was only 8 gates away so I sprinted down the concourse to make my 5:55 flight. They let me on and then sure enough... another ground hold. This time for maintenance. They had to replace an O Ring (NASA anyone?) so we sat for well over 1.5 hours. So now I am at 2.5 hours of sitting and I don't get to my hotel till almost 11pm when I was supposed to be there at 8.

That leads us to today. We got on the plane about 3:30 I fell asleep(I have developed a new talent of sleeping on planes) and taxied out. Then we sat and sat and sat. Now we are back at the gate because we had to get more fuel and we still are sitting. It is almost 5 pm and we should have been in decent but I am still sitting here. Which now of course I won't get home till 8 or 9. So at 5 pm it will be a total of 4 hours of ground hold. I really should have just driven. It is absolutely ridiculous to be sitting here. They are claiming weather but who knows.

Needless to say I am completely frustrated. Not to mention the only reason I flew here was for one damn meeting. ARGGGH. I fly a lot and this has to be my worst experience yet.


*** UPDATE

It is now 8:32 we have landed in Pittsburgh but here is the kicker.. we landed at 7:30. We barely beat a storm in and now all the jetways are closed and therefore we have been sitting on the tarmac right in front of the damn gate as storm #3 passes over. I won't kid you though the storms are nasty and now the plane is really rocking from them. I have been on this plane for 5 hours now for a 1 hour flight and I must say I am very close to the end of my rope. I doubt I will get off of here until well after 9pm.


**** UPDATE 2

it is 9:25 and I am still on the damn plane and the 4th wave of storm is rolling through. Needless to say I am ecstatic

***** UPDATE 3

So they brought out the "lightning truck" to guide the plane into the gate. I guess they had only done this before with the 737 size plans so it was a first. We finally got off the plane around 10pm. BUT we had to wait another half an hour for them to bring our bags. We all had to gate check because of the small plane so we stood around and waited for another 30 min for the bags. I could have drove home quicker!

Weekend Hangover....

I had a rough weekend and had my first crying/breakdown session in a long time. Piper got into some cookies and made a mess right when SS and I had worked a bunch of stuff out. Well she made a mess and I was worried it would just set things back to square one. With that on top of Fathers day and everything else I just lost it. I guess it was good thought and somewhat therapeutic. Now it is back to the grind.

Heading to Indy today and coming back tomorrow. Then some meetings around here. Fun Fun..

So hopefully I can get in the state of mind to impress these clients because I have been working on it since November!!!

Randoms

• Have I ever mentioned how much I love sitting in airports? So I got excited because I was able to take a earlier flight home (5:30 instead of 6:45).. then we don't even take off till 6:15 I mean come on! It was a beautiful day and still delayed. BTW USAIR is going down fast. I had 40 employees of USAIR on my Southwest flight because there isn't any room on their flights. They are also now charging for EVERY BAG. It is ridiculous
  
• My best friend has joined the divorce club.
  
• He also made a great comment that when you go to the bar there should just be a section called the I want to go down on you section... that way it takes all the work out of it. I think that would work out real nice that way you only have to buy drinks for candidates rather than posers.
• I hate little snide comments.. I really do.
  
• Quick trip to Philly.. hopefully I can get more local appts soon.
• Farmers Market is open!!
  
• Buccos are one under 500 and LaRoche still sucks ass

At the order of Judge Rufus Peckham...

I have been sentenced to community service... the "punishment" actually blogging! Yup that's right.. and damn it I am going to try to do it again. Maybe I should start talking about all the different places I am visiting, because I am seeing a lot of airports! :)

Anyhow today is an interesting day in my life and no I am not making a 6-9 joke (DWIGHT!).. Today is not only my wedding anniversary but also the anniversary of SS and myself. I wanted to celebrate it a day early (last year and this year) because of the stigma today has but unfortunately I don't think we will be celebrating two years. More of that to come later.. my stomach is turning enough today to actually talk about it.

Work is actually really good. I won't have any good "office" stories for everyone because now I work from home and travel and don't have to deal with the politics. Granted they made for a great rant here and there but I will find something like the fact US AIR charges 125 bucks to check 3 bags... ugh

I am really glad the WVU scandal is over and I must say the Post-Gazette's stock dropped significantly for me. I swear they were out for blood, the papers in WV didn't cover the story as much as they did. Finally the last article talked about other scandals at other U's b/c we all know they happen everywhere. I just wonder if something like this happened at Pitt that they would come down with the same scrutiny. I must say though I wasn't a Garrison fan from the beginning (the guy he beat was my old boss at the U when I was there) and hopefully this time they will get it right.

PENS... made me proud.

Buccos .. chugging along much better than I thought. very impressed with things lately.

Women.. well the issues are there but aren't they always?

This weeks trip: Heading to Philly.

Its HOT!!!

Don't burn the day... oh yea add 2 more DMB shows to the list so now at 59.