Wow, the race is coming up quickly. Today was a 6-mile easy run, and I kept it about 10-minutes/mile. The weather was a little chillier than I thought. I took my mittens, fortunately, and I could have used some ear protection but it wasn't horribly cold. Some minor frostbite that'll require the removal of at least one lobe, but other than that...
I keep looking for a cheap last-minute flight to Memphis, hoping I can avoid a 9-hour car trip each way. It looks to me as if Memphis suffers from not having a discount airline like Southwest renting a few gates at its terminal since all of the flights are vastly expensive. I found one the other day for $508 on a certain travel site that uses a former starship captain as its spokesman. The trip lasted over thirteen hours and went from KC to Detroit to Indianapolis to Charlotte to Memphis. Seriously? Who does that? Some people may gripe about them, but Southwest is my favorite airline and they would never pull that kind of crap. They're affordable, the stewardesses (yes, I said stewardesses, not the modern 'flight attendant' PC term) are a hoot, and they're always on time. Sigh. Barring a last-minute discount it looks like I'll be driving. That's okay, because at that price all the airlines that keep charging an arm and a leg and don't realize you can actually fill up your planes with cheaper fares and become profitable can all go to hell. I'm sure they'll get bailouts soon anyway.
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