Same as Them: December 2008

Goodbye 2008

What a year!
I've gripped about how difficult it has been more than once...which is too much, sorry. In other ways it has been a remarkable year. It has also been a historic year. The world financial system will never be the same. The implications are far reaching and are mostly still unknown. Be careful, and exercise wisdom. That said...
Sports Illustrated proclaimed this the best sports year EVER. I think you can argue that! College football, Tiger Woods amazing feat before going under the knife for his knee, the Olympics in Beijing, Mike Phelps. Amazing!!
Last but certainly not least...we witnessed the most engaging political race at least of my life time...accumulating with an African American being elected President of the United States. Wow.
What a year!

Aborted...Flying from Tulsa to Dallas.

I have had many weird experiences flying. The weirdest?? a baby being born midway; on an international flight from Frankfurt, to St. Louis, which forced us to divert our destination and land in...Montreal! This (legitimately) was to accommodate the mom, and the baby boy. But on my last flight I experienced a first...Sydney and I were flying from Tulsa to Dallas. We were on final approach into DFW, we were over the runway, maybe 20 feet off the ground...and the pilot aborted the landing! That was unnerving. Maybe there was an obstruction...or not, because here is the weird part. We didn't just come back around for another try. We got airborne, maybe 3500 feet and turned right. We flew about 5 minutes, made a slight turn and landed. I was sitting next to a passenger who travels from Tulsa to Dallas frequently. He said it seemed as if the pilot was trying to make the landing at the wrong airport! Love Field is also in Dallas, and AA lands there as well as Southwest Airlines now. He said, the direction of the flight after the aborted landing would fit with this. The passenger theorized that the pilot probably flew into Love Field everyday, and that this was a rare change in destinations. He, and the copilot for that matter, just didn't think...till the last minute. I didn't ask about it on my way out. I wonder if they would have come clean?

Have you ever had something like that happen?