Have to take a break from todays news about our "partners" expansion while we continue to shrink to enter the Burmese position and do the meditation provided to the bottom third of the Delta list by by Sailingfun, Slowplay, that TN fan and that Captain from New York:


"I am happy to have been displaced. I love the Douglas jets. I don't fear stalling at altitude, systems that don't work, altitude deviations, hydraulic failures, questionable control authority, engines that go "Ka Boom" and limitations despite the presence of blue lights. Searching for poles and ladders while covered in hydraulic, deicing fluid and other Class 1 carcinogens isn't t_h_a_t unhealthy. I mean my grandma dipped snuff and lived to 93, right? Fifteen years in the right seat is not a commentary on the success of a career. I will not jump when things go BUMP ... I will not let the one minute lag in FMS response cause a myocardial infarction, because we have four miles either side of the airway before we hit anything, right? The MD88 will fly in ice, despite the fact it barely flies at all. The air is denser when it is cold. I will not envy other airlines with career progression and modern equipment. I will always be irrationally proud because I was able to do simple math while keeping a little man from falling off a beam by moving a fulcrum with a key pad."