What made you feel good today

[jimthetrain]

the trip home was horrible.  

You cant leave a post up in the air like that spin, c'mon spill the beans

Probably did that on the trip home 

[Zenmer]

Finally getting a picture of the elusive nuthatch, well more then one actually 

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the trip home was horrible.  

You cant leave a post up in the air like that spin, c'mon spill the beans

Probably did that on the trip home 

Close.

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the trip home was horrible.  

You cant leave a post up in the air like that spin, c'mon spill the beans

Let's see, because it was all last minute I couldn't get a direct flight home ( Buffalo NY actually, home being an hour and half drive away ). So we booked a flight from Orlando, to Buffalo with a layover in NY at JFK. My wife is deathly afraid of flying, so she ended up doped to the eyeballs ( that comes in later). Somewhere north of Orlando we flew into a storm and it was a bumpy stormy ride into JFK and the landing was rough.  :'(The layover was to be 2 and half hrs. We grabbed Burger and fries and that was OK.) When we got to the boarding lounge I pulled out my laptop as there was free WIFI. It's now about 7:30 pm and we'd been up since 6:30 am. I guess my brain wasn't quite recovered from all the free flowing alcohol  :beer:that comes with cruises and while checking my email I linked to one of those viruses that spam everyone on your list and not thinking opened it (it was from someone on my list of contacts ) spammed a bunch of my friends and are now blocked from their servers. (this is where wifey being all doped up comes in) Wife asks if she can use the laptop for a minute, sure I say. Next thing I know, she's on Facebook playing that stupid Farmville, She proceeds to do this until the battery dies. All the while we're seated in a crowded lounge and my laptop is intermittently mooing, oinking and neighing and people are glaring at us. 

So around about this time I'm expecting the call for boarding the next leg, when the gate attendent announces that she'd love to board us, but doesn't have a plane to do so with. It's stuck over JFK in holding pattern because of the storm. It lands 45 minutes late and of course has to deplane it's passengers and then have ground crew service it. Half hour after that the gate attendent announces that the Capt. is instructing us to go the Loo and maybe buy some reading material before we get on the plane because it's expected we'll be sitting on the taxiway for another hour and half awaiting our take off spot. (that means under fed aviation rules that we're to be stuck in our seats, belts on and no getting up for any reason ). I think we ended up in the qeue about an hour and I dozed off a bit. Finally we take off into the storm and it's a white knuckler for the next 50 odd minutes. We arrive in Buffalo at about 12:10 am. on Sunday, I get out of the gate and there's a Loo so I run in for some needed relief. When I run out again I've left my wedding ring on the wash basin. I don't realize that until the next morning and contact the airport to find no ones turned it in. (it was ladies and gentleman my 34th wedding anniversary that wifey was able to point out ). Because it's now about 30 minutes into a new day, I have to pay for an extra day's parking.

Taking into account that we were coming in late to Buffalo we'd booked a cheap hotel off the airport strip for the night, not having ever been there I use my TOM TOM GPS to map a route, it turns out, the hotel is tucked up right beside the Interstate and so the TOM TOM mistakenly directs us onto the Interstate that's heading out of town and I end up driving 10 or so miles out of town before I can do a turn around to get back to the hotel. Oh did I mention it's a toll road and I have to pay, twice, for the privilege of being given wrong directions. (not to mention the nagging voice going 'turn around, turn around' ). Next morning thankfully everything was back on track the trip home from Buffalo was clear sailing. 

[oRGie]

Classic, some days are just like that..  sorry to hear about the losing the ring though, I guess that was the worst part... 

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Classic, some days are just like that..  sorry to hear about the losing the ring though, I guess that was the worst part... 

It was actually, quite saddened by that.

[Oldboy]

Classic, some days are just like that..  sorry to hear about the losing the ring though, I guess that was the worst part...  

It was actually, quite saddened by that.

My late dad lost a watch that he had worn all through the war in similar circumstances. What made it worse it was at a reunion of his old regiment.  

[anglefire]

Classic, some days are just like that..  sorry to hear about the losing the ring though, I guess that was the worst part... 

I think I've only taken my wedding ring off once or perhaps twice in the last 16years!

I'd be pretty gutted to loose mine, so I too and sorry to hear this.

[ABERS]

I lost my wedding ring after about 4 years of marriage. I was fishing and grabbed a handful of particularly sloppy ground bait to throw out in the lake and being somewhat wet the ring sailed away into the air along with the groundbait. It was like one of those film moments where everything goes into slow motion. I was sat there helpless and watched it plop into about 8 feet of water about 30 feet from the bank. It's still there as far as I know.

About 6 weeks after when my wife started speaking to me again, she bought me a new one which has never been off my finger for some 46 years.

[hevans]

Classic, some days are just like that..  sorry to hear about the losing the ring though, I guess that was the worst part... 

It was actually, quite saddened by that.

Ouch! I continually play with my ring and am amazed I haven't lost it, but then it's only been 11 years.

Maybe this is a good opportunity to think about renewing vows and replacing the ring at the same time?

H.

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I lost my wedding ring after about 4 years of marriage. I was fishing and grabbed a handful of particularly sloppy ground bait to throw out in the lake and being somewhat wet the ring sailed away into the air along with the groundbait. It was like one of those film moments where everything goes into slow motion. I was sat there helpless and watched it plop into about 8 feet of water about 30 feet from the bank. It's still there as far as I know.

About 6 weeks after when my wife started speaking to me again, she bought me a new one which has never been off my finger for some 46 years.

And that's the thing, the ring was always slightly loose, and I'd had a couple of instances where it has slipped off while washing up and I'd managed to catch it before it rolled down the drain, so that I developed this ritual of sorts whenever I washed up. That's what makes it so annoying, the ritual failed me.

[spinner]

Ouch! I continually play with my ring and am amazed I haven't lost it, but then it's only been 11 years.

Maybe this is a good opportunity to think about renewing vows and replacing the ring at the same time?

H.

Next year's our 35th, I expect we'll be doing something special for it, another cruise, with our kids (no grandkids yet but who knows ). This ring had been purchased on a cruise in Mexico a few years ago and we'd both really liked it. I expect she'll be content to have me wait to go back there, it's Mayan Silver. It was always getting compliments. 

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My late dad lost a watch that he had worn all through the war in similar circumstances. What made it worse it was at a reunion of his old regiment.  

That far out does my loss I think I can imagine his disappointment.

[ABERS]

Ouch! I continually play with my ring and am amazed I haven't lost it,

MMMmmmmmm.

[jinky]

Careful Abers