I’m heading north to Chicago and the the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe for a conference.
Meanwhile, what is going on there? The Feast of their Dedication was celebrated with Card. Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, as the homilist. HERE
My first leg is delayed but that won’t affect me on the other end provided it isn’t delayed for hours. Long layover. I don’t book close flights anymore.
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Another prehistoric Boeing. Pray for me.
It’s great to get that text that your bag has been put into the same plane you are on.
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In Atlanta an exterior view of the C Concourse lounge where there will be room for me.
Instead there is room at the T lounge.
They manage to keep their carpet attached to the floor.
Unlike at the Panera in the same spot for years now. We’ve mentioned it and a couple of our players have tripped and fallen when getting up! But fix it?
There are experts about everything out there. What sort of glue would work? The manager said he tried. It is hard to believe. Discuss.
Meanwhile, I am in the lounge and reading the superb essay I just posted about HERE.
This is the laptop that died and rose again to new life.
Later.
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Really?
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The gate guy got us all going bam bam bam. But it was cooler in the bridge than the airport.
Back in the 21st century.
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Coming in to the Windy City. Little did I know that…
… the War of the Worlds had started.
We taxied for 25 MINUTES once on the ground.
Awaiting me were a two different types of pizza. Guess which one this is.
Which hot pepper flakes are mine?
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Glad to have you back in the Dairy State, Father, even if only for a little while. Enjoy La Crosse, the conference, and the beautiful Shrine–truly a gem of the faith here in Wisconsin!
We’ve mentioned it and a couple of our players have tripped and fallen when getting up! But fix it?
The dreadful acoustic killing carpet that was installed in our parish is lifting and getting buckles in it. I tripped on it during communion today. It would be horrible if an elderly person tripped on it and fell, and ended up breaking a bone. Perhaps now we have a sufficiently valid reason to remove the carpeting. It’s far cheaper to remove it than to repair/replace it.
Fr. Z:
Glad you made it to the windy city. I have yet to go to the Shrine in La Crosse, but I have been to Our Lady of Champion near Green Bay.
Hmm…vintage Boeing aircraft…must have been the 717. I don’t know if Delta still flies the 757 (American retired those – flew on one to Honolulu from Phoenix almost ten years ago). I feel old – 25 years ago I went on vacation with three of my buddies to Hawaii on an ATA (now defunct) L1011. It got us there and we had a refueling stop on the mainland where they let us get off the plane (provided we got back in time!)
Found out about that “thank you” delta plane:
“ Delta Airlines has an Airbus A321 aircraft, specifically N391DN, with a special “Thank You” livery. This livery features the names of all 90,000 Delta employees, recognizing their contribution and the company’s profit-sharing payout, according to the Delta Flight Museum. The plane was unveiled on February 14, 2020”
Not uncommon for airlines to do something for employees. I know southwest did something for their employees after winning the “triple crown” by having all their names on the overhead luggage compartment for the seven consecutive years of #1 customer satisfaction, on-time performance, and baggage handling. A by-gone era for them now
Also Delta related and reason for a really big ‘thank you’ is that the turbulence incident a couple of days ago didn’t have a worse outcome. A flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam had to divert to Minneapolis-Saint Paul after a pretty horrific turbulence incident. Twenty-five wounded is bad enough, but thank God no casualties.
Agree with nice to have you back.
The only thing we miss about covid…
Praying the Mass with Fr. Z and his great sermons.
“Which hot pepper flakes are mine?”
Would ‘all of them’ be correct, or would some, even in the most scrupulous amounts – like “I Can’t Feel My Face” – be beyond the ‘limes’ of the culinary, to your, as (I suspect) to my, mind?
Venerator: I dunno… those were pretty good. Once the initial terror of the capsicum wears down, you taste what they have.
Really enjoy these travel blog posts, Father! Very “comfy” to use a colloquial term.
Thanks!