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Kim
Valinor
Aug 23 2014, 3:12am
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But Fiesta is always in the morning...
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Oh right!  Awesome photo, glad to hear you had a good time, but sorry you are going home to sad news. At least baby is waiting for Dad, so that's good. Hope you had a safe flight home, and recover from jet lag quickly.
“Will you follow me, one last time?”
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Kim
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Aug 23 2014, 3:22am
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Hope you get your travel plans sorted out and have a nice time off the grid and enjoying all that beautiful nature. Don't forget to take a camera so you can post some pics!
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DanielLB
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Aug 23 2014, 3:45am
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Missed connection, stranded in Chicago OHare, no hotel rooms for the night.
SOSing any TORn friends nearby!?
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Brethil
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Aug 23 2014, 4:12am
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Darnit its even too far for me to drive to rescue you!!!
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Meneldor
Valinor
Aug 23 2014, 4:41am
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That's going to be a beautiful house, Sil.
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How far will it be from the lakeshore? A lot of lakes have restrictions on that in order to keep the lake clean and clear.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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Eruwestial37
Rohan
Aug 23 2014, 5:27am
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I'm not too far away, about 70 miles. Let me know if I can help.
Wish I'd gotten online earlier.
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DanielLB
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Aug 23 2014, 6:51am
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Heh. It's all part of the fun, right?
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Well, I managed to find a chair, and then spend an additional $5 for all day wifi. Looks like I will be spending the rest of the night here. 
Thank you for everyone's suggestions and offers, both here and via PM.
Slightly stunned by the lack of guidance and solicitude from American Airlines. I was handed over a voucher and was told to go and find a hotel room. When I ring the number, they tell me their are no rooms available. Since it's now nearly 2am, there isn't a staff member in sight to ask questions. They can expect a letter of complaint in their inbox next week.
I hope my luggage gets it's way back to London.
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Starling
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Aug 23 2014, 7:05am
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You should talk to Cats - stuck, he is.
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Altaira
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Aug 23 2014, 3:29pm
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I spent the night at O'Hare once
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It was with United and, while there were hotels, they were so far away I would only have gotten an hour or two of sleep before I had to get up to get back to the airport in time for my early morning flight. I slept near the gate for my flight, and the United flight attendants came around and gave us pillows and blankets (there were 1/2 dozen other people in the same boat). I still have that pillow! I figure I earned it. 
I hope you managed to get some sleep! Hopefully you got more sleep on the nice, long flight back to London. I hope your friend and better half are doing better once you get there.
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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Ethel Duath
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Aug 23 2014, 3:43pm
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I can imagine this is messing with your brain! But of course, Fiesta always arrives when it's meant to.
I am so sorry about your friend. I hope there is treatment, and that it will go well for him/her.
Glad labor did not have to be induced! I never had to do that with my kids, luckily, and I hope she can avoid it as well. You'll be in our thoughts as the day approaches!!!
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Ethel Duath
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Aug 23 2014, 3:47pm
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pooL water--I hope (or is that a brand of bottled water . . .  )
Your nieces/nephews will be in my prayers. Starting today. For real. I'm so sorry; but so glad they have you and your wife to bring something happy and normal to them once in awhile.
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Darkstone
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Aug 23 2014, 5:13pm
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We're in the middle of a long drought, so we initiated a water-reuse program. Pipe the water from the wastewater treatment plant directly to the water treatment plant, then back to the public. Rinse, repeat.
Tested the process for months. Been going on for real for about a month. No sickness or death. Yet.
Behold the future!!
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Aragorn and Legolas went now with Éomer in the van.
-Helm’s Deep, Chapter 7, Book III, The Two Towers
"Rorth Rorlingas!!"
Sauron: "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling hobbits!"
(Thanks to Brethil for image and battlecry.)
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Aug 23 2014, 5:16pm
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I thought this was going to be the set up for a joke...
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I spent a night in O'Hare one week.. 
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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silneldor
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Aug 23 2014, 5:21pm
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I don't have 'lakefront' there Men.
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Only a handful do out of 3-400 lots there. The lots there are only 1+ acres on just one side and not that private, and as you understand, a far piece up on the hill. I am actually the farthest from the lake being out at the end of the farthest cul-de-sac .
But that is ok. The views we want are there and we plan to get a couple of scooters to buzz down the 3miles to the lake. Or run down and take a swim. Maybe a golf cart, being a trend lately. We will see. What i am looking forward to also is the lack of boat noise/traffic. I can swim all over and only worry about a collision with a canoe. I can float out in the middle in utter peace.
If you travel our way please come stay over. You we be welcome.
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Meneldor
Valinor
Aug 23 2014, 5:28pm
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Truly, you have sailed the straight way to the Undying Lands. Color me jealous.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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silneldor
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Aug 23 2014, 5:53pm
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We tried to capture the moment
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that each time of day brings and the light on the mountains from the wee morning to last light inside and outside the house. And the higher up, the farther the view.
One can put a pot on for such as soup or a stew but it cannot act like a griddle. That stove is actually not lined with 'fire brick', but with soapstone which really stores heat. That is why that maker makes many models with it on the outside. It also has a 2.9 cubic ft firebox which was another thing i felt was needed. Looong burns:).
Yous guys are going to have to take a road trip one day to visit those relatives down there, AND us:)
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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silneldor
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Aug 23 2014, 6:06pm
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I always wanted to retire to Maine myself. Even had a nice place on Silver Lake (once called poverty pond...?) north of Square Pond in Acton but that was not to be. Maine lakes are to die for for its dead clear 'black' water and sandy everywhere spots.
And then there are the loons and daddy/grandfather bullfrogs that drone on into the night that i remembered, giving me such a deep sense of peace as a kid drifting off to sleep. Men, you are going just fine:)
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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silneldor
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Aug 23 2014, 6:13pm
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No doubt about it:)
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ethel Duath
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Aug 23 2014, 7:06pm
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Aaaaaaaah! Glad it's working so far, though.
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Water problems out west are very scary. I'm from Nebraska, so even though I no longer live there, I still worry about the Ogallala aquifer and pipelines and all.
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silneldor
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Aug 23 2014, 10:14pm
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This time; a prayer for the children of Iraq, Syria and much of Africa. May they find peace some day, away from hate.
Prayers of the Children
Can you hear the prayer of the children?
On bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room
Empty eyes with no more tears to cry
Turning heavenward toward the light
Crying Jesus, help me
To see the morning light-of one more day
But if I should die before I wake,
I pray my soul to take
Can you feel the hearts of the children?
Aching for home, for something of their very own
Reaching hands, with nothing to hold on to,
But hope for a better day a better day
Crying Jesus, help me
To feel the love again in my own land
But if unknown roads lead away from home,
Give me loving arms, away from harm
Can you hear the voice of the children?
Softly pleading for silence in a shattered world?
Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,
Blood of the innocent on their hands
Crying Jesus, help me
To feel the sun again upon my face,
For when darkness clears I know you're near,
Bringing peace again
Dali cujete sve djecje molitive?
(Croatian translation:
'Can you hear all the children's prayers?')
Can you hear the prayer of the children?.
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Annael
Immortal
Aug 23 2014, 11:07pm
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airports should offer those "pods" they have in Japan
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where you can crawl in, lock the door, and sleep.
To be sane we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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Ethel Duath
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Aug 23 2014, 11:49pm
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(May it be answered.)
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
Aug 24 2014, 12:05am
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not be too far away to help. Hope something works out!
I think a safe place to camp out might be under (or on top of?) that Brachiosaurus statue . . . 
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Oh damn!!!!!
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