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My flight from Hong Kong to Saigon just jumped to mind. I flew YOW-YVR, YVR-HKG, and then had to wait longer than expected in Hong Kong because the plane I was supposed to board had hit some bad turbulence going SFO-HKG (and was supposed to continue to SGN) and had to be inspected, and possibly repaired, before it could fly again. That meant that another plane had to be assigned to the HKG-SGN flight. Fortunately I had met someone online who was going to be on the same flight, so I had someone to wait with (she was also going to be seated pretty close to my seat).

After a few hours, a plane arrived, and it was a 747, same as the original plane. However, there were barely any passengers boarding. This massive plane couldn't have had more than 50 passengers. Heather was smart and lay down in the middle seating, and while I should have done the same, I don't sleep well on planes. I do wish I'd got out the camera and taken some pictures of the nearly empty plane - just a few heads here and there.

Getting into SGN was almost immediate culture shock, especially considering the (very young) soldiers rushing to their posts once our very delayed flight arrived. Taking a taxi to the hotel at 1am or so (it was still incredibly hot and muggy, even at that late hour) let me see how alive the city was.

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag some people (only if you want to, of course). Use the first letter of your first name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real words....nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your first name: Liz
2. A four Letter word: Lewd
3. A boy's name: Lance
4. A girl's name: Leanne
5. An occupation: Lamplighter
6. A color: Lilac
7. Something you wear: Leggings
8. A food: Limes (or Leonidas chocolates)
9. Something found in the bathroom: Loofah
10. A place: Lille
11. A reason for being late: Lost my bus pass
12. Something you shout: Leave!
13. A movie: (the) Longest Day
14. Something you drink: Long Island Iced Tea
15. A musical group: Legendary Pink Dots
6. An animal: Llama
17. A street name: Lancaster
18. A type of car: Land Rover
19. The title of a song: Liza Jane
20. A hobby: Logic problems (or Loafing)

I voted - have you?

And me without any beer to celebrate.

i know this building, and it's not within walking distance of excellent stores, fine restaurants, or coffee shops. Unless you count Tim Horton's as both fine restaurant and coffee shop. Now, if you count being able to walk 3 minutes to a transitway stop as walking distance to stores, etc etc, then yes, it is within walking distance of all that.

This isn't my building, it's just not far from my building, and if I'd decided to look at the building based on the information on their site, I'd be mighty pissed off.

And I love how pictures of apartments never include bookcases. I mean, my kind of bookcase, that overflows with books and spills out onto the floor.

Why am I posting about this? who knows. One of the things I've disliked about my building is that it's not within easy walking distance of anything. However, distance to the bus is a big plus.

I actually slept a bit this afternoon. I better not be getting sick.

I know, I shouldn't be watching CNN, but it's so entertaining sometimes, especially when there's a hurricane a-blowin'.

And one person was pronouncing Gustav as "gust-have" - like gust of wind. Ok, that's not as bad as some pronounciations, but it amused me.

I haven't been posting much anywhere recently. Things are just so busy that I don't want to look at a computer much when I have some downtime.

However, I have to put in one brief, but important post about something that happened yesterday.

Just a couple weeks ago I happened to see an article in the online Ottawa Citizen (a very short one) saying that Pete Seeger was coming to town on July 9th. Somehow I managed to get 4 tickets (the auditorium at Library and Archives only seats 400 at most) for me, Paul, mom and dad. And last night I finally saw Pete Seeger in concert, after listening to him, well, all my life. I wish I could have met him, but they weren't sticking around long after the concert because they were driving to Vermont almost immediately after (plus they had to let an 89 year old man get some rest - had they not taken him to a private room he would have been swamped for hours, I'm sure).

Hope to write more about it soon.

Is everyone tired and/or under the weather these days? I've been tired a lot recently, but yesterday I woke up feeling even more off - went to work (no fever or cold symptoms), but left at noon, came home, and slept a good chunk of the afternoon. I don't do that much unless I'm completely exhausted or sick.

So I've got a dress for 2 upcoming weddings, but I now need shoes and a hat (the hat more for the second wedding, in California).

Where in Ottawa can I find a decent hat (but at reasonable price)?

DEM folk do have a weird sense of humour. :)