Archive for November, 2006

Returning home

Published by Pyrofenix under Main on November 21, 2006

I’m headed home now. Writing from Logan airport in Boston waiting for a 4:35pm flight to La Guardia. This isn’t the flight I was originally booked on but a piece of tire off a tractor trailer began a chain of events that made me late for my original flight. So I’m on stand-by right now and wasn’t lucky enough to get on the first flight as there were no availabilities.

Stand-by two days before Thanksgiving isn’t recommended according to the woman at the counter here. If i’d known that, I would have moved that tire piece out of the lane on the interstate.

Overall it was a good trip though, and i’m glad I came.

Update (6:30pm): Made it to New York and only have one chance to get to Atlanta tonight. There is a flight that should be leaving at 7:45pm for Atlanta and the next flight (on this airline) is at 6:04am. Cross your fingers for me.

Update (7:47pm): Flight is starting to board now and will be taking off late at around quarter after 8. I really hope I don’t get bumped off this flight because the european chick that was asking me about how they do boardings in the US has a really…uh….nice personality.

Update (10:12am): I made it on the flight. I was very lucky. I was #4 on the standby list. The woman at the counter called the first 2 names and they never showed up and no, they aren’t tied up in the bathroom. I wouldn’t do such a thing. Then the lady called #3 on the list who was there and I got the absolute last seat. The seat no one wants, in the middle right next to both the engine, bathrooms and food station. It pulled away from the terminal at about 8:20 and we rode around the airport on the plane as the 35 other planes in front of us took-off. Never got off the ground until 9:40pm. It was a crappy flight thanks to a storm on the east coast. The pilot was really good and explained what he was doing (he changed altitudes a few times and found us some smoother air for some of the trip).

Now i’m home (and working). I would much rather be home and in bed though.

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Not quite there yet

Published by Pyrofenix under Main on November 17, 2006

I hate flying.

It’s not that being 30,000 feet off the ground that gets me so much (though I would prefer if i were in control) but the fact that airports suck. The seats are uncomfortable, they are in high demand by the other flyers and once you’re in their area they rape you. $2.19 for a 20oz bottle of pepsi?!?

Then there is the airlines. They suck too. I don’t fly often but at least half the time that I do there is an issue that causes my normally 4.5hrs trip to at least double. Today my flight from Atlanta to New York was supposed to leave at 12:30pm but didn’t get off the ground until almost 2:15pm. Needless to say I didn’t make the connecting flight to Boston and am now waiting for a 6:20 flight.

Cross your fingers that the bag I checked will make it onto this flight as well.

UPDATE (5:58pm): The plane is here. The flight crew is not. They are in Columbus, OH and new departure is 8:20pm.

UPDATE (6:16pm): Flight crew change. New departure time is approximately 7pm.

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I’m leaving on a jet plane

Published by Pyrofenix under Main on November 17, 2006

I have only about 10 minutes before the airport taxi comes to pick me up and deposit me at the airport.Â I’m bound for Boston today by way of New York’s laguardia.Â I will be out of town until Tuesday evening where I will also be making a quick layover in NYC.Â Of the 4 parts to my flight back and forth.Â Only 1 will be on a plane that doesn’t feel like i’m trying to FIT inside.Â I hate flying.Â I hate small planes.Â To make things worse my stomach is in knots about the purpose of the journey.

Â I’m going to visit my dad.

Wish me luck, both for the visit and that I arrive in one piece.

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Red Fish Blue Fish

Published by Pyrofenix under Main on November 15, 2006

Red Fish, Blue Fish.

Old Mac, New mac.

I couldn’t pass up the temptation and the price discount of a black refurb Macbook 2.0ghz Intel Core Duo ‘notebook’ (apple doesn’t call them laptops because they can roast your parts if used on your lap). I’m very much a fan!

By the way, the 15″ powerbook on the left will be for sale once I get back from my trip to Boston.Â It’s a G4 1.5ghz, 1.25gb ram, 80gb HD, superdrive, wifi, bluetooth in excellent shape.Â Comes with 2 AC adapters and 2 batteries (both of which last for between 1-2 hrs of use).Â Send me an email or post a comment if you are interested.

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I am a Georgia Voter

Published by Pyrofenix under Photos on November 8, 2006

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Family Business

Published by Pyrofenix under Family & Friends on November 6, 2006

I play a vital part in my families’ business which in the last 3+ years has flourished expanding into almost 20 different cities.Â The success has been a great contrast to other times in my life when things weren’t going so well.Â I enjoy having the freedom to voice my opinions about the current state of our services and where I see the opportunities for improvement.

Recently we began working with a new potentially very large client offering a customized inspection.Â These new inspections required designing a new inspection report suited to the way they do things.Â It’s been a challenge in figuring out how to streamline the process which we are still very much doing.Â Now I find out that we are discussing with this same client a way to expand the service as well as other new services which I find somewhat in contrast to what we offer and how we operate.

From the conversation I had earlier it feels as though we are expanding too quickly without enough time to catch our footing and make sure that these new inspections remain at the standard at which our customers have grown to expect.

With this fear comes one of the largest downsides to working with family.Â Fighting.Â Working in a professional environment, people may disagree and overule one another but when that same disagreement comes to play family members know how to press those buttons and dont always have the same use of tact in dealing with non-family members.Â I forsee a disagreement between my self and my step-father about this new growth which will result in him not wanting to let me fully express my concerns and even if he does HEAR my concerns, won’t even think about them himself.Â Because of how this happens, it requires that I subtly (or not so subtly express my concerns to my mother who is often in the office here with me in an effort to get her to have these same concerns as he is more likely to listen to her or both of us than it is to just hear me.

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