Missed my flight to Mexico. Didn't check in an hour before and the very direct woman at the ticket counter was clear that there was no way around it with international flights. Then there were no more direct flights and, frankly, cutting a day of the trip eliminated the need for
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Monday Night Open Thread – What do you keep in your shed?
A gathering is on the Horizon
Since we here at Door Flies Open tend to be a social, genial and interactive bunch of individuals we have this tendency to have and attend random get-togethers. Events where we collectively gather, have many, many adult beverages, and share tales of our travels and past experiences. Many of you have
Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “This is a Woodlawn-bound 4 Train.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZdDyH9LLc Ah, yes, summer in the big city. The subway stations are oppressively hot (dear god, Herald Square in summer), the Mister Softee trucks have been pushed out by bootlegs (like New York Soft Serve), and the Canada wildfire smoke has (mostly) subsided! We hope. It's that time, because they don't yearly
Mittwoch Holiday Week What The Crap Else Are You Doing This Week Thread
Welcome reprobates, degenerates, and occasional nice people. It's that weird middle-of-the-week day in between Christmas and New Year's, and this year it happens to ba Wednesday for Peak Weirdness. Kids don't have school, and most people I know who have actual job-type-job take this week off, too. Where does that
You Make The Call – Should Hippo Retire From (Non-DFO Yahoo) Fantasy FITBAW?
I will still play in Freezer Vodka League, if nothing but to keep my decaying mind functional. But I swore last season would be my last in my high-intensity, moneyed fantasy auction league. True, there is NOTHING like the rush of the auction itself. Pre-Pandemic/Zombie apocalypse, I drove from Wake County,
