Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:19:56 PM
Greetings from 37,000 feet. Not quite 8 Miles high. I am in a Fokker. No I am not cursing the plane but it is the most accurately named aircraft made. It is the Mini Cooper of jets. It seats about 30 or so uncomfortably. I am on my way to Ottawa Canada to join my wife and kids who are visiting my wife's brother, his wife and son. The boy cousins are only 2 weeks apart but have probably not spent more than two weeks together since birth. It is hard when family is so far away. My brother in law used to live in Tulsa Oklahoma but had always wanted to return home to Ottawa. This year they did. Now they are three airports and three time zones away. I spent the night in Chicago and have been on the hunt for some thermal underwear formerly known as long johns. I found some yesterday that were $40 per pair. I don't know why they call them a pair since it is impossible to use just one like with a sock or shoe. I am very sorry for that Andy Rooney moment just now. It may come with age. Anyway I needed two pairs for the Great White North. One to wear and one to be in the wash. Spending nearly $100 on underwear would exceed my two year budget for undergarments by nearly $50. So I found 2 pairs for $15 each. My brother told me I got the wrong kind because I didn't spent $40 a pair. Apparently long johns are like wine to a degree. Not in the better with age sense but in the price/quality sense. I hear it is not necessarily true for wine but apparently it is a fact with long johns. I'll will test it out when I get there and worst case scenario, I can wear too pair at the same time but I will look like an upside down Popeye. I was watching the car show Top Gear this week and they were in Norway testing out cars in the snow. One test was to put a Citron, a French car and not a fruit, in a room where they reduced the temperature to 30-40 degrees below zero to test if they car would start. It didn't They did this with one of the hosts inside the car to see how he would manage in the extreme cold. Apparently his brain's ability to process information properly was reduced with each degree. This finally explains curling and Celine Dionne. It may also explain Patrick Leahy.