Planes in Amish Country

There are lots of new, small, cheap, airlines. JetBlue, Independence Air, and USA3000 are a few of them. But there is one thing good old USAirways does that no one else does: Fly from lots of random airpiorts. In addition to Philadelphia, USAirways has service from Allentown, Lancaster, and Harrisburg. All of those are under 90 minutes from me.

For Thanksgiving, we flew from Lancaster. It's a totally different experience. The good:

• You can arrive at the airport 30 minutes before your flight and not break a sweat to get on the plane.
• Returning to Lancaster, you can go from the plane to the terminal (4o feet away) to the baggage claim (10 feet away) to the parking lot (100 feet away) in about 5 minutes. Yes, 5 minutes from the plane to your car in long-term parking. Time it next time you fly.
• Cost of long-term parking: free

The bad:

• You can fly nonstop to any place you want, as long as it's Pittsburgh.<>
• <>That flight to Pittsburgh is on a Beechcraft 1900.
  

I'm still deciding if it's worth it ...

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm off to lovely central Indiana this weekend for Thanksgiving. (Does that sentence make it clear that I'm staying for the whole week, and that I understand that Thanksgiving happens well after this weekend?)

If you find yourself incredibly bored say, next Wednesday, I highly recommend these games. Number five (Flamingo Drive) is the only one I've played more than once, as I find it strangely addictive.

CUBICLE AUDIO WARNING: The link above does not have sound, but the games do. You may wish to turn the sound on your computer off if you want the people naerby to think you're doing real work. And if you're a Tier 4 with a monitor facing a glass wall, well, why in the world are you reading my blog?

I expect reports of your high scores. Will anyone beat Dave? Will anyone read this besides Dave?

And 50 blog points ...

... to anyone who can prove that this is not Erol.



(This is purely a test of Dave's theory that you people are only interested in Erol.)

Speaking of corrections ...

A blog that has needed no corrections in either of its first two posts (so far) is Dave's Blog. 15 blog points to any old-time Small Business person who knows the history of his Blog title.

Also, I've gotten old

Erol* had a formula for calculating someone's "true age". It involved taking their actual age and adding some number of years if they owned a home, were married, and (especially) had kids. By that measure, I've been old for a very long time.

There is another, slightly more common formula for calculating someone's age. This method involves taking their actual age and adding nothing. By this measure, as of today, I am officially old.

* I was going to say "A friend of mine" or "Erol, a guy I worked with at Capital One". But I figured I was deluding myself into thinking that anyone reading this blog doesn't know who Erol is.

I've gone commercial

Because of the incredible traffic this blog is generating, and to offset the high cost of blogging, I have decided to add advertising to the site to generate lots of revenue for myself. I've placed the ads in a highly visible place at the very bottom of the screen.

Actually, I just wanted to see what kind of ads Google would give me, since it's based on keywords from the content of the site. Right now, they all seem to focus on publishing a blog, which is mostly what I talk about. Seems about right.

I will be donating any proceeds (yeah, right) to charity. So, support my advertisers ... and recommend a charity while you're at it too!

Man bites dog

In Florida, I met a man who bit a dog.

(Can anyone find the original article? I think there was a picture.)