Icewind's Ramblings

Observations sitting in Airports – Have you ever noticed? This one has been sitting on the back burner for a while now so I thought I would post it now.  When I traveled extensively I noticed while sitting in airports for my next flight how people move about the airport. Those people going to the gate for departure move fairly slowly unless they are late and are trying to run to the gate to make their flight. If you sit and watch people arriving from a flight it appears no matter from which gate they arrive but every single person whose flights had just arrived I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this but those people walk super-fast when they get off an airplane.  It’s as if the momentum from flying through the air at 500 miles per hour continues once passengers are allowed out of their seats at the gate.  I’ve watched over and over again over the years as several airplanes pull up to their gates and every single time, a few minutes later, 200 passengers burst ou...

It snowed yesterday It snowed yesterday, not like the Alaskan snowfalls I had become so used to living there for almost twenty years.  This was not the 8 to 12 inch snowfall that the local news media would call “flurries”.  Small amount by most Northern standards as it was little more than a light dusting.  One of the few measurable snowfalls found in the South.  There was about an inch on the ground, a little more on elevated surfaces but mainly it was white and pretty.  It covered the brown leaves all over the ground left from last fall’s blowing and falling cycles.    It began during the night, coming softly with nary a whisper of wind blowing like the previous day.   I woke up during the night, not from any noise, but because it was suddenly quiet and I sensed there was snow coming down.   Lying there I knew it was snowing as I could see the deck starting to turn white from the small drifting flakes.   In the morning I saw...