Remember the best and forget the rest.
You do you, it’s genuine. Some just can’t see past the past.
What matters in the end is what you feel in your 
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Thank you, @ricepad.
Stuck in EWR due to more shit weather.
Over it 
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Hope it eases up quickly and you’re in the air very soon.
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That’d be great, but I think we can forget about our connection in CPH.
Sorry, Lady. But everything about EWR is the shits. I’ve flown through there about 2 dozen times and there was always some problem. I tried to avoid it like the plague, but my corporate flight pattens often seemed to use it…
I feel that way about PHL and have successfully avoided connecting through that circus for almost 20 years.
EWR has been fine in comparison, but even a hub can’t do fuckall about weather 
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Crapola.
Well, at least CPH is a decent airport to be stuck at. Not like Logan.
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Yes, and with SAS Plus we can actually peruse the lounge, and now that we’ve been rerouted through beautiful Heathrow 
, we’ll also get to spend some time in the BA lounge before finally getting to Berlin. From London.
This is my first time at any airport lounge. Beats the grimy “outdoors,” fer shore!
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KLM’s Schiphol exec lounge for the win any time I was lucky enough to be on the corporate dime and flying through there.
Self-serve liquor draughts and me like a kid in a candy store (in moderation, of course)…
Sent this pic to my wife and told her i was being a good boy…
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Seems to be more than just the weather. From Reuters, paraphrased:
Chuck Schumer on Monday called for a probe into a probe into ongoing flight disruptions at Newark airport outside Manhattan that have disrupted hundreds of flights over the last eight days because of equipment and staffing issues.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Friday that the carrier will begin canceling 35 additional flights a day - or about 10% - at its Newark hub.
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Speaking of airports, I’m currently sitting at ORD, waiting for my flight home.
I was planning on visiting Mom this weekend anyway, and by chance, her condition last week had officially crossed enough behavioral boundaries where it was necessary to move her to the memory care ward at her care facility. She recognizes me as her son, but cannot recall my name without prompting. The same with her sister.
Her sister, incidentally, is an awful narcissist and thief. I have confirmed with my cousin (her daughter) that she is in possession of several pre-WWII Japanese woodblock prints my parents collected, along with numerous other antiques and tchotchkes. She claims my mother gifted them to her, which is probably true, but my mother was well into serious dementia by then and she refuses to acknowledge that she’s done anything wrong. I can’t stand her, but she DOES visit my mother every week and takes her to all her doc appts, etc. I’ve decided it’s not worth confronting her until mom finally goes.
I’m also beginning funeral pre-planning since it seems like it’s better to do too early than too late.
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I’m sorry. Family is hard sometimes.
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I did that for one of my sisters when it was obvious she’d be going soon. I was taken aback when the funeral director asked me at the start if this was for myself! Further, after my sister passed, I was talking to that funeral director about some arrangements, and she told me that my sister was “going into the fire” that day! The funeral home got some strongly-worded feedback after!
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Family is hard
You said it, lady.
I muttered to my partner this week “I swear my family wasn’t always this complicated.”
She quite rightly responded “They absolutely were. You could just ignore it back then.”
She’s smart.
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That in itself should earn some compassion (and yes, I know the difficulties of narcissistic family members; mom kindly labels them “solipsists”).
I wish you safe travels and a good visit with your mom. And yes, pre-arranged funerals are another blessing.
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(S)he may want to consider a new line of work.
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You can pick your friends & your life companion (some choose better than others), but you can’t pick your family.
Wishing you strength as you go through all this.
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