Flying Home!

As you can plainly see, I flew home from New York.

The girls are not going to be home for another week. (I had some stuff I simply have to do back here.)

No really. The reason the girls stayed behind is that our littlest hasn't quite learned to fly yet. As you can plainly see, here I am - with Grandma Ribby and Zoë - trying to teach Mei Mei to fly.

Let's get a close up:

There was quite a bit of turbulence and I didn't get a lot of sleep on the flight. So I'm pretty out of it. Also, the WiiFit board just told me I gained 5 pounds during my stay in New York. (Maybe that explains why the takeoff was a little shaky.) Science thus advances: beer and cheeseburgers beat long runs on the beach, calorywise. So it's out with the beer and in with the salad.

Comments

[Nakku]

You don't win friends with salad!

[jholbo]

Alas, this is true. But I am all alone in Singapore, with no one to form a conga line to drive home this moral, repetitively. So I have forgotten it completely.

[Mandos]

Singapore is way more fun than everyone I've asked so far has given it credit. Why, even you said nothing when I asked for recommendations...

[jholbo]

Hey Mandos! Send me an email at jholbo@mac.com. We'll do dinner tonight. (There goes the salad diet. Ah well, this morning the WiiFit decided I only gained 2.5 pounds after all. I suppose the rest was beer and bloat from the flight.)

[Mandos]

Yo, I sent you an email from my RL self.

[Mrs Tilton]

John, you weren't on SQ25 out of JFK last Thursday night, were you? 'Cause if you were, we were on the same plane. And for me that would be a Brush With Greatness second only to sitting a row ahead of Günter Netzer on a flight to Zurich that one time. Well, OK, third place: Daniel Cohn-Bendit once ate lunch at the table next to mine.

[jholbo]

I was on SQ25 out of JFK but not on Thursday. I left Saturday. But thank you most kindly for the lavish compliment as to my hypothetical celebrity. Who the hell is Günter Netzer? And who the hell is Daniel Cohn-Bendit, that he should be between Günter and myself, at lunch or otherwise? (Grumbles off to google to check out the competition.)

[Mrs Tilton]

Netzer = legendary midfielder for Borussia Mönchengladbach back in the days when Gladbach was The Other Top German Club (i.e., the one that is not Bayern Munich).

Cohn-Bendit = "Dany le Rouge", leader of the student revolt in Paris 1968, kicked out of France by de Gaulle himself (despite his French birth, C-B was a German citizen); one of the early Greens; lives in Frankfurt (where he writes, among other things, about the fortunes of our local 11, which is emphatically not one of the Top German Clubs); member of the European Parliament, where he has represented both German and French constituencies.