Nice 22.65 miles on the bike this morning. Great to be riding again, even as it is getting warm out. We cruised past subdivisions and pastures and lakes. We stopped at a gas station which published their outstanding tabs on their marquee. Now that’s small town.
Also, Bill really owes.
There was a guy at the station who was taking a break from cleaning the parking lot with a blower. It was, he noted, hot out for a bike ride. When he was young, in Birmingham, he couldn’t afford a car and biked everywhere, he said. He couldn’t do that today, he said while tagging another drag from his cigarette.
We escaped the shade and pedaled on.
Much of the rest of the afternoon was spent on website building and three particularly troublesome CSS issues. You might imagine the five paragraphs of hilarity on that subject.
Received an Email from Delta:
I would like to extend my personal apology for the inconvenience you experienced as a result of the delay of Flight DL5130.
[…]
We value you as a customer and sincerely appreciate your support of Delta. To demonstrate our commitment to service excellence, as a gesture of apology I am adding 2,500 bonus miles to your SkyMiles account.
You wonder what the delay threshold is where they start doling out miles like candy. Our 45 minute delay earlier this month did not merit such attention. This is the first time I’ve received such a note, but then with inflation, miles aren’t what they used to be.
A Delta delay helped get a friend fired from his job. How many miles do you get for that?
Stanley Cup tonight. This has been on the state capitol of Massachusetts for weeks, just waiting for tonight’s deciding seventh game:
I suspect shenanigans. Says the guy who’s watched two periods of hockey all season.
Vancouver got close. Boston won. The Canadians are rioting. Odd, that.
