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Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Weird, Juju -- I've had just the opposite experience!

I'd second Juju's recommendation of calling the airline -- or IAH -- to ask them what the process is.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I've had the same experience as JuJu in other countries, but I think in the US you have to pass through immigration, reclaim your baggage, clear customs and recheck your luggage before you go to your connecting flight. It looks like IAH has an international terminal, so hopefully both in and out flights are in the same terminal. If it were me, I would choose a later connecting flight, incoming international flights are late reasonably often, customs lines can be long... I don't think I'd do less than two hours.

But ask the airline and/or IAH. They'll no for sure.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Thanks, everyone! I really wasn't feeling good about an hour and a half, and it turns out there was another one I'd missed with just about 4 hrs to connect. Much better!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 9:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay Karen!!! That will be SO much better for your peace of mind.

Last week, yikes, it was 9 days ago, we were going to have just two hours to clear customs in Seattle and then re-check the bags and try to make a short commuter hop home. The Amsterdam Seattle flight was late because of bad head winds and we ended up with just about an hour and a half, and I was fretting. Bags came up quick, customs was nothing but a nod and a wave (heh, the girl who sort of cut in front of us exiting got the random thorough check - there IS such a thing as karma). Then I thought we were going to have to go out to the terminal and re-check bags, but there was a woman inside who hand wrote us baggage tags to our final destination, re-checked our bags, and we stayed inside the terminal. Did have to go through another internal security check, though, just like in Amsterdam.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
just throwing in a "k" and a "w" for my "no" above :-).

Glad you found a longer connection. Better a slight wait than all the worry.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
LOL, Kitt, I wasn't going to say anything about missing the 'k' and the 'w', much as it bugged me.

The funny thing is that the flight in question is for the way home, after the wedding and everything else. It's the flight THERE that I'm really concerned about, because I have three people flying from Vancouver and four from Toronto, and I want them all to connect in Houston to be on the same flight into Belize. On the way home, as long as they all leave on the 4th, I don't really care how long they have to sit in the airport, LOL!!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Need softball help. Or kinda. This morning my nephew got ahold of Kota's mitt and threw it in the dogs water. I pulled it out just dripping wet and set it up on the table to dry. Checked it awhile ago and it was still pretty wet, so we used a hairdryer on low to dry it out.

I'm now worried the leather might stiffen up or shrink, plus I'm not convinced it's completely dryed out even though it feels like it. Is there anything else we should do? She's got a game in a couple hours, if she has to she can borrow one when she needs it. I'm just worried it might be ruined (hope not, can't tell ya how much time we spent trying to find one that fit her just right.)

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Get some leather conditioner (the kind you use on either boots or car upholstery) and if it's dry from the water, condition it really well, it will make the leather supple again.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Or saddle soap.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
what is an RSS feed?

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
In laymans terms it's like a broadcast you can subscribe to from you favorite websites and it will automatically update in your browser.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
is it audible?

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
war, gloves go through the wringer with boys/girls all of the time. it won't even hurt it to be played with wet! we used to coat 'em with vaseline to shape them like we wanted them. i can't even begin to tell you the mud and gunk that used to be on my glove after practice sessions and i just would wash it off and let it dry and play away!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Ha, seriously, I thought gloves were one of those things you had to take extra special care of! Darren's always done some major voodoo with them when the kids get new ones that I only pay half attention to. I was really worried it'd be ruined. I think I'll still have him do the condition stuff but won't worry about it after that.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
WE'd condition ours (we used saddle soap too, because we are horse people) then put a softball in the palm of it, and wrap a shoelace around it to give it a good pocket.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 4:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I remember when I used to ride, was told to rub olive oil into some leather items.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 7:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
The softball and rubbing it with something is part of what I remember Darren doing. And Kota wearing it for days on end. I never played softball and don't think I ever owned a glove so it's a complete mystery to me. However, she was catching great tonight so I guess it's fine.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 7:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i still don't understand what an RSS feed is.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
The softball and rubbing it with something is part of what I remember Darren doing.



Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Texannie, you know the Blackberry and several other phone-type thingies let you read webpages in a little window? Well you don't look at the normal webpage, the webpage is filtered using RSS (a tool/language) so you can look at a specially formatted page that's concise and easy to read on the little screen. Like our local cinema has an RSS feed that shows just the movie times, skipping all the ads and the blah stuff that's round the edge if you looked at the webpage.

With an RSS subscription I think (never done it) that the webpages are automatically downloaded to your phone-type browser thingy whenever the page changes. So on Thursday when the movie times change I guess you wouldn't have to enter the address into your device, the device would have already downloaded the new page, like if it had received a text message.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Quick help with a limerick;

I am looking to make a limerick really quick tonight for my son's teacher. Her last name is Jold. Can anyone doctor this up at all? Feel free to change anything, but leaving third grade in would be good... (and the BFG refers to a book she is reading to the class)

There once was a teacher named Jold
Whose students knew had a heart of gold
She taught the third grade
And drank lemonade
In her class tales of BFG were told

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, May 05, 2008 - 5:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
There once was a teacher named Jold
known well for her big heart of gold
She taught the third grade
And drank lemonade
whilst tales of BFG were told

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 05, 2008 - 5:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Lumbele--thanks!!!! That totally rocks!!

IF anyone else feels like "playing" go ahead and make one up. Key words: Jold, third grade, High School Musical, McFoal (name of school) I was hoping to make one for each day of Teacher appreciation week??? Not sure that'll happen though...

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, May 05, 2008 - 7:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I knew an old teach' from Nantucket

Oops, wrong board. Well, I have to run this morning. Maybe I will have time later this afternoon to give it a whirl. We need to take out the lemonade. That is lame.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Now I am working on one for the teachers as a whole:

There once were many teachers at McFoal
whose personalities ranged from witty to droll
their students they did teach
the principal was a peach
need last line...

(and all other lines can be totally changed...)