Ramblings from DFW

So I'm now sitting in the DFW (Dallas - Fort Worth) Airport killing time. I have about 5 more hours to kill.

The flight from Monterry Mexico to DFW was on time and had no problems. We make it thru customs and check our baggage in, turn to check the monitors to find our gate and what is next to the 10:30 Indianapolis flight but the big word Cancelled.

So after spend about 20 mintues trying to find a gate agent we finally head back out to ticketing to see what needs to be done.

I was scheduled on the 12:45 out into St. Louis with an arrival into Indy at 5:30 - but the flight from St. Louis to Indy would be on a really really little plane which I really don't like. So I opted to take the 3:45 direct flight (on a bigger plane) into Indy instead and not have to deal with the potential of missing the final flight into Indy. So I will finally get to Indy at 6:55 and home by probably 8pm.

So I have a bunch of hours to kill. Finally to get to all those web sites I've been meaning to check and balance my check book and read the news and a bunch of other stuff. I would much rather be at home doing nothing but I guess this is okay, comfy chair, nice and bright windows and not alot of people around me now (Oh I'm sitting in the International Terminal which is alot newer than the rest of the airport and has better restaurants)

7.138 Pesos

Now what exactly costs 7.138 Pesos as of May 15th?

A liter of gas.

You heard me.

A liter of gas.

So that works out to about 27 Pesos a Gallon and the going rate is 10 Pesos to the Dollar.

So gas in Saltillo Mexico is $2.70 a gallon.

And we are at $4 - tell me why that is.

Can you ship Gas? I wonder if it would be any savings.

No wonder all the old US cars go to Mexico to die (you see alot of 70's and 80's cars still there and the big SUV's)

Back from Wichita

I spent this last weekend visiting my husband in Wichita KS. Because you really never hear about Wichita (except that their college basketball team liked to beat my college basketball team) I wasn't really sure what to expect.

First thing.....
Its really really really windy there - like all the time. To the point that this morning when I left it was about 50 out with about 50 mph winds which brought the temp down to the 30's. The wind really makes it hard to spend any time outside.

I know Chicago is windy but really thats just because of how the wind funnels thru the buildings. This wind just cuts thru you.

Second....
I'm not sure if this is true but they have more aeorspce companines out there than I've ever seen. For a really small town they have 5 - 6 airports. 1 is the commercial airport. HawkerBeechcraft (who Chris and Matt work for) has their own air field. Boeing, Cesna and Spirit have assembly plants out there with associated run ways. There is a Military base with a run way and a small private airport as well. As we were driving around I saw alot of aerospace companies had manufacturing facilites as well. So it seems like Wichita is a hot bed of the aerospace industry.

Third.....
The town has a really nice downtown area thats very tourist friendly with a bunch of museums and lots of things to do. Its probably about the same size as downtown Indy but with not as many tall buildings. Once you get aways from downtown things are really spread out (at least on the East side). I'm used to development upon development and everything being really packed in. Out there you drive down a city road that all of a sudden turns into a mud road. A mud road is a road that consists of mud and gravel and when it rains really hard it becomes almost impassible. I saw alot of national chain restaurants and stores. Oh and the main Colmen factory is out there and they have tours and an outlet store (that I'm disappointed we didn't get to)

So all in all its really not a bad little town. Probably smaller than indy but still has alot to offer.

Here I am

Well I've finally abandoned Yahoo360 - I hate to do it as I've been there for a couple years but as they are not supporting the program any more and Yahoo seems to be changing directions I needed to move.

So this is where you will find me.

More to come

OH and someone else already took the cedarchip.blogger.com so I had to settle for cedarc - not too much different. If you try cedarchip you get a blank blog, wonder who that is....