Long Distance Friendships :-(

[LittleChickenLady]

They better start liking me, or I'll get rid of them.

But for real, if they're boys I do have to get rid of them. I'm still thinking the blue one is a boy..

My Wyandotte is a super lazy chicken too. She's always sitting down on stuff.
Even when she gets up on the stump to get a drink she'll sit on the edge.

Heck, I'll stay in that new mobile once your house is built. I've known people who have really nice trailers.
As long as it was new and not dirty and falling apart, I'd live in it.


Have you looked on Craigslist? I know that it's not really reliable and I've never used it myself, but I know some people who have used it and it's worked out great for them.
Apparently you can even put in an ad for wanted housing. So maybe you could go on there and post an ad saying that you want a couple houses next to each other with some land.
Then we could all get what we want!

I think I might just go to bed.

 

[SourRoses]

Okay I see you've gone to bed... no worries

Uhhh... I hate to say it... but that sounds like the p word. Keep an eye on the naseu.

I did though... sometimes when I was really working hard... sometimes feel like that. Like I was about to faint and I had to hold on to a counter or something for a moment till my head stoped spinning and the stars in front of my eyes went away. I chalked it all up to my hereditary low bp thing. My mom and I both can feel that way if we stand up too fast or something.
There was this one day... and it seemed to only happen to me in restaurant jobs.. because other jobs.. even mucking stables, you can take a breath every now and then and pace yourself.... but anyway.. this one day... I had not gotten much sleep and had a long shift... so I brought 4 of the giant energy drinks in with me and was glugging them down like no tomorrow... and a few hours into my shift right as I finished the last one... I really had this feeling like.... temporal dislocation.. LOL. Theres my star trek words to explain it. I felt like my body was moving ahead of where I was actually lumbering to... and faint and naseus.. but that weird naseus where its just the feeling but your stomach has no inclination to give anything up.

Ok.. done trying to explain.. LOL.. anway... it stuck with me off and on for an hour.. and I was getting sweaty and cold and trembly so I asked to go home. Hehe.
Probably a caffiene over abbundance that time.

So.... if you think about it... Did you have caffiene to drink, even if it was just a bit and your not used to too much... Or were you working hard and maybe getting short of breath, or had been a few minutes before (maybe your body over reacted in compensation).


In all the flying stuff... they taught us the difference between Hypoxia and the other one. All this stuff they taught me that I cant remember.

Other than that.... shhhh... the p word. I've heard stuff about those shots, in fact 2 of my nephews were supposedly born despite those shots

so maybe you shouldnt discount it entirely until youre sure. Are your ahhh... is your chest region feeling normal? Peanut butter thoughts?

Or maybe youre allergic to video games?? I know those things make me want to throw up

Im scared of craigslist

 

[SourRoses]

Wait yeah... the one nephew was born despite the shot... and the doctors explained it as an interaction with another med she had to take.. one the doctor prescribed her without a warning

I think it was just a pain reliever or something. Then the latest nephew was born under the same circumstances.. but apparently no drig interaction? Mom and I did this

because we werent even sure they were being truthful.

As far as Im concerned with regard to my brother... only funny because he would never stop complaining about how he didn't want any kids and didnt like any of the 3 different mothers .. and this is exactly what I said to him... "One unplanned pregnancy is understandable... 2 is stretching it... and 3 says you're stupid!".

Of course none of that has anything to do with you.. LOL...


Guess what! Guess what!!

I finally decided on the middle names to go with 3 of my girl names... and they sound sooooo adorable! I cant tell you on here though.. theyre so perfect and byc comes up in google search so easy, anyone could steal them.

Theyre so perfect!

They flowed so pretty I was singing them all together.. hehehe! And one if my girls first names I actually put togther and its amazing! I think it might already be a name... but it doesent sound dumb at all like some copy paste jobs.
In fact... it just might be the most perfect name ever!

 

[whiteflare]

Hey Squishy!

Thanks for the

, but why? Did I say something was wrong?

 

[SourRoses]

Hi Flare! Wooo hoo! You're here!


Well... Last night you popped in for a moment and said "Honestly I dont know why I even bother" and then Danielle asked what was wrong and you clarified that nothing was wrong with life but you didnt know why you bothered "coming to this thread".

We were reall confused... and actually I thought it didn't even sound like you writing. Its back on page 55 if you want to look.

Was it you? Sleep-Posting

Or maybe you were mad at us? Or.... something else?

Please remember we love you!

 

[whiteflare]

Hi Squish!

Oh, gee, please don't tell me I forgot to log out of one of those darned public computers?!

Or maybe it was one of my friends messing around with me! I'm going to be watching them from now on. *grumbles*

I'm not mad, don't worry, although I told some of my pals about some problems I was having on BYC... didn't say anything specific. I'm not sure if it was you or the GJF people I was grumpy at, I was just grumpy at BYC in general

I'm really sorry if that led to what it did, I'll shut up about BYC in the future now to my RL friends.

Anyhow! Now that's behind us... hello!

DId you know Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines have struck up a partnership? This is amazing. John Borhetti has really turned Virgin in to a "real airline", they say!

He got declined for CEO at Qantas, so he's probably a bit peeved and wants to let his airline rule.

They've got over 100 new destinations between them. Pretty good move on his part. He's got ties with Etihad, Air NZ and Delta coming along too, so they're really going to give Qantas a run for their money!

Finally, they're always in my face...

Oh, and interest rates have stayed put at 4.75% for the sixth time in a row.

They create all this hype, and then never do anything.

 

[SourRoses]

Wow uhh... bad bad person who did that to you/us!!

Danielle and I were kinda hurt.. actually. You made it all better for me now

But you might want to give Danielle a hug later.

Moving on....


Thats really interesting! Uhh... the airline I worked for went bankrupt and shut down... LOL!

It was also one of the poopiest little airlines around... so its really no wonder. They didnt treat us well enough... especially the pilots.

I think its such a great thing you listen to the radio thing so much and have your head in all this stuff. It will really help you later on!

Weird thing was... Did I tell you I had no interest in planes until I began flying lessons?

In fact, I had only been in planes twice in my whole life, Australia and back, and they kinda scared me! Not to mention.. having never paid any attention.. there were things my instructor was flabbergasted that I had no clue what he was talking about. Like... Ohh, we have to talk on the radio? Ohh, we have to put oil in the plane? All kinds of things I think are pretty common knowledge for people who had an interest to start with. Like I said before.. my dad pushed me onto having lessons, and then I found I enjoyed it, if only because I found I actually could do something I didn't think in a million years I would ever be able to do.

And then to have that first flight all by yourself.... its freedom. I think something that helped me out in my lessons was that I never had any plan to get my license, or to even show up past the next lesson appointment. We just went one day at a time, with the instructor asking at the end of each lesson.. "So what time on Wednesday?" and the next thing I knew.. he was saying, "Lets do your written test on Friday" LOLOL! He really helped me along!


The Virgin airlines fligt attendants had the loveliest uniforms last I saw, a few years ago! I remember one of my friend Fa's dragging me to a virgin terminal in the airport just so she could show me their uniorms! It was kinda funny actually! Then they waltzed off the plane in formation

If someone has a 'ceo' attached to their name... I know I just dont like them! Hehe! They only steal money from people anyway. I hope they all fall on their faces in poop of some kind.

 

[SourRoses]

Oh hey! Lizzie!

I finally went and read your blog doo daa. I saw that it really neat you're working on a script for something!!

Do you mind if I throw a couple hints your way before you use it for whatever its meant for?


Since 9/11.. Commercial cockpit doors are reinforced and locked from the inside during all aircraft movement and in the air. In order for someone to get in the cockpit during flight, they would need a heavy duty axe like the pilots have on their side.

Some corporate jets do not have this precaution, however.. and many have a single flight attenant aborad.. so you could substitute with that.

Engines control altitude, Pitch controls airspeed. If engines somehow failed to respond to the throttles, and continued at high speed, it would be impossible to descend and land a plane until the engines were stopped or the plane ran out of fuel. In fact the plane would likely continue to climb. Pitching the nose towards the ground doesen't land a plane. You could create a super exciting scenario out of the other though.. waiting for the plane to loose fuel. If you like, I'd be more than happy to help you with some emergency procedures and such you could write about! Not specific to jets though.

 

[whiteflare]

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Yeah, really sorry! I'll make sure to log out of every single computer I ever use ever again! That's pretty rash for someone to do... shall I go and erase those posts, or doesn't it matter?

Anyhow, I'm glad you feel better now

I love stories of airlines that go bankrupt or collapse, especially big ones, like Ansett or Pan Am!
Oh, I think all airlines besides Delta treat their pilots like hired help. Qantas employees have threatened to take industrial action for so long I was actually disappointed when they called off their one hour strike one morning recently

The CEO is complaining that the pilots' demands will cost the airline something like $300 mil, and he can't pay for them. The international sector is losing money rapidly, and I was quite amused to learn that the DAY after Malaysian Air joined their little OneWorld alliance and Qantas was considering a partnership, Virgin and Singapore announced their deal.

Sucks to be Qantas.

I have flown so many times it's hardly funny. I have flown between UK and Australia several times, as well as to several destinations around Europe, Africa and Asia.

It's a pity we don't collect frequent flyer points! And we don't travel with the same airline anyway, we go for whatever's cheap.

I've been into planes for a while. I think it got started when someone referred me to air traffic control. liveatc.net. I was hooked on it pretty soon after I managed to get it to work on my horrendously slow computer.

I guess that's why, as I can see from your second post, I know absolutely nothing about flying, because listening to ATC doesn't do much to teach you about how the plane actually works.

From listening to ATC from Kingsford-Smith in Sydney, I've managed to figure out what approaches the planes are on from what direction they fly in. I have fun doing this kind of stuff from the sidelines.

ATC is just a whole bunch of fun, you get to recognise a lot of the flights and controllers after a while if you stick with the same vague time periods every day.

Virgin has recently rebranded. They have new planes and uniforms, everything. They're 'Virgin Australia' now, but still 'Virgin Blue' on the share market.

Really? I don't mind CEOs. I actually admire some of their work, I think they put together some pretty good stuff, although they tend to neglect the employees in favour of impressing customers.

I recently drew a portrait of Alan Joyce, Qantas's CEO, for an art project, which the teacher picked to send to an exhibition in the city. I was pretty pleased.

 

[whiteflare]

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I'm so glad you're telling me all this stuff. I'm actually submitting my script for a major school project, and I haven't had much time to do research. I'd be utterly humiliated if I sent in something with all these.... incorrectivities, or whatever they are!

I guess it's a bit weird when you don't know the whole story. I think I have a link to the script in that blog entry somewhere. I was trying to think of what specific part I could include that wouldn't make the post ridiculously tedious to read.