Flying just seems to get worse and worse these days. I’m supposed to be leaving for Boston tonight to spend a couple days back at the NM “home office”. But now the news stations are reporting that a FAA flight plan computer went down and flights are not being able to file new flight plans. No flight plan filed = plane can’t leave. One interesting thing that came to my attention due to this mess is ireport.com. It seems to be the beginning of an organized effort to create news reports from people on the ground rather than traditional news reporters. Of course it’s owned by CNN, so who knows what the real motives are. But this guy is stuck in the Philly airport.

Over the past 5 years I would say that 80-90% of my flights have had some sort of major problem. From the basic (overbooked) to the ludicrous (broken bathroom) I’ve had almost nothing but canceled/delayed/canceled/delayed. Thank god we bailed the airlines out with our tax dollars in 2001.

Oh well, at least I’m sitting at home. That is a lot better than Andrew and Gretchen’s last crappy airline adventure.