Wednesday, April 2, 2008

It comes on sticks now??


Well, I made it through Chicago with only an hour delay, something mechanical and then just unexplained waiting. Ah, well. I think the flight delay buggered up the next flight on their schedule though because I got a message that my flight had been rebooked to a later time (after I was already on the flight, of course). Maybe there's just something to the inner workings of a major airline that I just don't understand. Their process just doesn't 'flow', as if everything that goes on there is a surprise. "Oh my! There's a flight to where today? Hmmm, can we do that one? No, I didn't think so. Silly of us to try in the first place, really. Cancel it. Oh, wait! What? We can? Excellent! Herd some people on there! Go go go! Now find a pilot!" I'd say it's this recent FAA safety crackdown thing, grounding fleets of planes for inspection, if it wasn't always like this.
Either way, here is a photo taken atop the walls of Fort San Cristóbal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The rainbow above the ocean is kind of hard to see unless I mention it... so I did. Right after this picture was taken, we wandered down the street and found a store where we were able to buy smoothies and where I was shocked to discover chocolate-covered cheesecake on a stick. On a STICK! Portable! Conveniently mobile! My mistake was not getting one immediately. Instead, I vowed to go back again after supper to get one for dessert... but they were closed. So, not to be denied, I vowed to go the next day. To my ultimate disappointment they were closed the next day too, and again (after, once again, vowing to return to the store before leaving Puerto Rico a week later) discovered them closed that day too. I kick myself for not getting one the very first instant, as I know all the readers out there would have. I have no excuses. I admit it: I made a huge mistake! One that will haunt me forever! Or until I go back, whichever comes first. (Sony DSLR-A100, 40mm, f/9, 1/250, ISO 100)

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