Basil’s Blog

When the Wife and I got to Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon, we had no luggage.
And had no luggage until this morning, when the bell desk brought it up.
I had blamed Delta. And then Northwest. But it turned out neither was to blame.
It was the TSA.
You see, when the bags arrived, and I opened the [...]

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I owe two airlines an apology.
I wish to apologize to Delta Airlines, who I first thought lost my luggage. I was extremely frustrated by the fact that our luggage … containing all our toiletries and underwear, among other things … didn’t arrive. And I expressed my displeasure.
First, I didn’t like the luggage going missing. Then, [...]

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Our errant travelers have been found. And delivered.
A little after 6:00 AM, I went to the phone, saw the flashing red light, and pressed the button to recover our messages.
“You have no voice mail.”
That was odd, I thought. Then what’s with the flashing light? Then I noticed the voice was continuing.
“You have one text message.”
Okay, [...]

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I mentioned a little while ago that an airline we didn’t fly on lost our luggage.
You might wonder how that could happen. It hadn’t occurred to me that such a thing could happen. But, apparently, it did.
Here’s the deal.
This afternoon, after finding the same thing up on the Delta Web site saying they had found [...]

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One of the things about this trip to Las Vegas that is not too pleasant … other than an airline we didn’t take losing our luggage … more about that later … is the heat.
I know Las Vegas is in the desert. Heck, everyone knows Las Vegas is in the desert. And the desert gets [...]

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It took 10 innings, but the Columbus Catfish managed a 3-2 win over the Rome Braves tonight, sweeping Rome and moving to within a half game of first place.
Catfish 3B Joey Callender got his only hit of the game in the 10th inning to spark the team to victory.
Callender greeted Rome reliever Jorge Acosta (0-1) [...]

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