Archive for Airplanes

Gentlemen, (Re)Start Those Engines!

Spicy Blog Returns
Life tosses you curve balls; you adjust your stance and swing away. Strike out and you sit on the bench for a while, wondering how Charlie Brown must have felt. Then you play right field for, like, three dog years (that’s five months for most of us) while the other team bats around [...] Read more »

Posted by: The Chile Doctor on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Japan Invades Singapore

My work day finished in good order, and I decided to treat myself by taking a “teksi” home rather than riding the SMRT. Yes, the SMRT is clean and convenient. But it was already nearly 6 PM, and if you don’t get on before 5:15 the crowd gets large. So I hailed a cab in [...] Read more »

Posted by: The Chile Doctor on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

It’s Hard to Get Here From There

I made it to Hong Kong, but it wasn’t easy this time.
I got up early on Friday and loaded up my gear.  My wife dropped me off at Austin Bergstrom airport at 0700, and the trip started out well enough.  Only took 20 minutes to get through check-in and security, and the lounge was nearly [...] Read more »

Posted by: The Chile Doctor on Saturday, September 15th, 2007