Airsick

Well, Kim and I are off on vacation. We are headed to New Mexico to spend time with friends and basically chill for a week. As a pastor I started doing the Wednesday to Wednesday vacation thing and I like it. I can kind of get things pulled together and ready for the next week on Monday and Tuesday and when I get back I have a few days to get things going for my first week back. Also airline flights are usually cheaper on Wednesdays.

As a missionary kid and as a missionary myself I've spent a lot of time on airplanes. I've also flown into some pretty remote places and experienced a number of harrowing experiences in an airplane. I don't fly like many business travelers do now days but I'm not new to it either.

None of that helped our arrival in Minneapolis this morning. Things were nice and smooth until we started descending into the twin cities area. I would say it was severe but my brother would laugh at that since he is a pilot and says things have to be flying around the cabin to be called severe. It was pretty rough though. My stomach was floating up somewhere in the vicinity of my esophagus and I began to think we would need to divert. Apparently the pilots stomach had dropped and was resting on his bladder because suddenly he made a dive for the runway. I suppose the airlines are trying to save fuel but it seemed we landed way to fast and he still didn't use the brakes very much. He careened us around the airport like a teenager in a school parking lot.

Glad that's over. Hope the next leg is better. In the meantime I'll sit around and wonder at people who it looks like will come close to electing Al Frankin to congress. I can't say much. My state almost elected 27 year old to congress who would have no idea what he was doing, to replace a guy who has built up 14 years of seniority and is a pretty decent guy even though he does do a few things I disagree with. I actually live outside that district though so I wouldn't have accepted the blame.