In old Oregon

[randy_byers]

Denys and I lost internet connectivity at home on Tuesday, and Comcast can't send anybody out until Friday afternoon. I'm in Oregon now, surprisingly enough. I didn't think I was going to make it to the airport yesterday, because of the icy roads, and then after my neighbor kindly got me there, I thought my flight was going to get canceled after it kept getting delayed. It was scheduled to leave at 6:15, and we finally got off the ground at 11:10. We had Santa on board with us, and I won a bottle of wine by guessing the combined age of the flight attendants. I was going to guess 47, but then decided to go with my own age, 48.

We're having a white Christmas. Best get back to it.

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas, Randy. Glad yer in Oregon sound and safe. I thought of you just now; whilst listening to the incomparably beautiful a cappella choral music of Vagn Holmboe and precessing through the stations of the net, I discovered that today's episode of Democracy Now is devoted entirely to "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz".

May all our days be holy.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas, Ron. Looking forward to the comps, and I love the message, "Be brave." As usual this time of year, I was feeling a bit forlorn the last couple of days, thinking about the past and lost chances, other Christmases spent elsewhere. Well, such is life. It's all good.

[alces2.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear that your neighbor was able to help you out. Sorry to hear you lost internet connectivity at home. Also good to hear you won a bottle of wine. How many flight attendants were there? I'm going to assume two but will be very worried if there were three or more.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

There were two, but they were still pretty damned young.

[jackwilliambell.livejournal.com]

Merry Xmas dude!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Merry Xmas! Have the monster icicles melted?

[jackwilliambell.livejournal.com]

Nope, but they have gotten rotten enough to crack at a touch. One of them is over seven feet long now!

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Merry Xmas! I've been wondering what you were up to, and figured you were in Oregon by now. Glad you made it safe and sound! And I hope your internet gets fixed soon, it would drive me buggy not to have internet. The woes!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Merry Xmas! Losing the internet is like losing a sense or something. It was hard to figure out how to solve some of the problems I was facing!

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My first inclination is always to post about it. But then I go, oh no!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it was exactly like losing a sense. Very disorienting. Like holyoutlaw, I kept having the impulse to do something on the 'net, and then being brought up short by reality. I accumulated a list of comic-book-related questions that I couldn't answer because I couldn't access comics.org or even Google! Friday afternoon was a blessing.

-- Denys

[daveon.livejournal.com]

48? Combined age or average and how many?

This couldn't have been Alaska, that's all I'm saying :)

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

There were two of them, and yes it was Alaska. Perhaps they got stuck with the Xmas Eve late shift because they lacked seniority. They looked their age, too, although the 21 year old guy in front of me thought I was crazy when I told him my guess. They must have looked ancient to him.