-My Wednesday morning direct flight to PHX left ABQ at 7:45 am.
-My direct flight left PHX the same day and returned to ABQ at 4:05 pm.
-How many hours total did I spend in PHX on Wednesday?
Road Warrior Math
September 22, 2007 by ybonesy
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Well, I’m going to completely ignore the math problem you’ve given us. However, I am delighted to see you’ve once again flown on a mustard yellow plane.
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LOL. Yes, mustard yellow one way, and blue purple the return flight.
How many mustard yellow planes does it take…
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Stop it with the math problems, ybonesy. I graduated from high school already.
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ybonesy – you have a preference for wing seats? I like the photos! And i will not even attempt the math problem , having aways had agonies over word problems. 🙂 G
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No, I actually usually take aisle seats. But that’s when I do assigned seats. On Southwest, you don’t get assigned seats, and if the plane’s not full or if I’m sitting with other people (like when I went to San Jose), I’ll do a window.
Something about traveling, I’m always calculating in my head, what time did I get up in my time zone, which means I’ve been up since…, or how many hours was that trip in total… It’s like a traveling sickness I have to sit on the plane home and do that math.
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The photos are excellent!
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Road Warrior, oh, I hope you tell us the answer to the math problem at some point. Math was never my strong suit – thus, I write. All I know is that when I fly from Minneapolis to ABQ, then take the shuttle to Taos, I’m pooped at the end of the day and in another zone altogether.
I like the way you set up the photos on the page. Graphically, the color is stunning – and the multiplication of images fits with your math problem. 8)
When’s your next trip? I was also wondering, what’s the longest flight you’ve ever taken? Mine was to Hawaii…seemed so long. On the way back, I turned green and nearly lost it. I get motion sickness. Whoa!
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I’m an Art major but never back down from a challenge…;)
yb, Would that be in physical or mental hours?
I’m guessing it’s about 1-1/2 hour flight each way with at least an hour of everyone sitting, staring at each other. I’m going with 6-1/2 hrs physical.
Mentally I’m giving it 4, allowing for 2-1/2 hours for day dreaming and wondering what your family is doing.
Very cool photo collage…#23 is my favorite. Good clouds!
QM. I totally identify with “green”. On my flight to Hawaii, I had to use “the bag” and that was “before” we left the ground! When I flew to Paris, I was outfitted like an “Air Warrior” with Naval sea acupressure wrist bands, Dramamine and an ear patch. My husband even upgraded us from business to first class, hoping the “space” would help.
Within 30 minutes of “air time” he was pretending he didn’t know me. I was on the floor in the crouch position, rocking, with a blanket over my head praying for an inner air collision to end it all… The poor Air Hostess lifted the blanket only once to politely ask if I needed anything…To this day I still don’t know what I replied…But she just as politely… re-covered my head.
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Well done, Heather. It’s a 50-min flight. I got in at about 7 (AZ is an hour behind NM, so I gained an hour), left about 2 pm, which means I ended up spending about seven hours there. And yes, daydreaming in the taxi cab both ways (because they were all out of cars at Hertz in PHX), then spacing out walking through the airport security, etc. — I’d give my mental part no more than 5 hours.
When you said #23 was your favorite, I thought, I posted 23 photos?! Wow, that’s a lot. And to think I didn’t post another dozen or so. I was snapping away on the plane. It was cool in that the light changed every time we circled around to land. That’s why the lighting is so different in each shot.
QM, my longest flight was NYC to Johannesberg, South Africa. It was about 21 hours long without refueling. I understood it to be *the* longest direct, non-stop flight, period. The return flight to Atlanta stopped in Cape Verde.
I really feel bad for folks who get airsick. It must be horrible. I have traveled while sick (fever, shivers, etc.) and it’s the pits.
And my next trip? I have something in early Dec. So far nothing between now and then. Yeah! I’ve traveled by plane so much in my life so far that my preference when I have any free time is to drive or just stay home.
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G, I do have a preference for wing seats (aisle wing). I’ve always heard they’re the safest part of the plane. And interestingly, when we do get assigned seats and I go through the company travel, I end up on wing rows. I think the company defaults there first.
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Lovely photos, math way too hard…. but seriously, no matter how pretty the view is, I just hate, hate, hate flying. There is no way that something that heavy should be able to fly. You can’t convince me. I just have to go to my “happy place” from the minute I arrive at the airport, until I leave the one at the other end.
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Ah, pmousse, you are not alone. Visit the comments (linked here) in the post “Rich in Ritual” to read about some interesting pre-flight rituals.
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All of you need to stay away from math! Here’s the real math, from a real artist, with a master’s degree in architecture.
Ybonesy, you were away from Albuquerque 8 hours and 20 minutes. Two 50 minute flights are 1 hour and 40 minutes, leaving 6 hours and 40 minutes for Phoenix, regardless of time zones.
Sorry. This is why I took up abstract painting. So I could let go of such perfectionism.
It’s a process.
I’m working on it.
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LOL. Hey, isn’t there a correlation between Math and Art? Maybe you should embrace your inner perfectionist. It could be genius, you know.
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There are some people on this post (and I won’t name names) that I’m beginning to suspect were those kids in high school who had calculators attached to their belt loops with little clips. They had them handy to pull out at any second to find a square root. I always wondered how those people adjusted after there were no more math classes to take. They used to huddle in groups in the halls trying to stump each other with algorithms. Have some of you turned up here? On redRavine?
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Not me…I was busy getting my hair caught in the drill in jewelry making class. 😉
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Heather, you crack me up. That sounds like me burning mine up in Shop class. 8)
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Sinclair – I think I work with a bunch of them ; – ).
I was the kid wearing a flannel shirt, painter pants, wafflestompers, and singed bangs.
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Sinclair, I laughed so hard I almost peed!
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bloomgal….I’d say, “Busted!” Your reaction must mean you know intimately about those belt calculator clips. Do you still wear yours? Go ahead, you can tell us.
ybonesy…What are singed bangs? Does it imply fire to your hair?
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ybonesy,
You log so many miles by plane…
Great photos.
I like sitting on the wing or just behind it because I like seeing the ailerons and flaps working. Its all very interesting to me.
On a recent AA flight, I had the last seat in a MD-80 (the long skinny airplane with engines aft). It is the seat where the engine nacile in blocking the view. Not much to look at, therefore I’d sometimes think about the titanium turbine blades spinning away at 40,000+ rpm just inches from my head.
On my transAtlantic leg of the flight from Edinburgh to Newark, I saw iceburgs south of Iceland…at least I think they were iceburgs. Big chunks of white things not changing shape or disappearing like breaking waves do.
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Ah, Sinclair, I better not say what “singed bangs” are other to answer, yes, it does imply fire. I wouldn’t want to get busted as to what I was doing to cause my bangs to singe ; ).
mm – the last seat? Ugh. That one doesn’t recline, either, does it? Yet, you made the best of it. That’s great. Did you snap any shots of the icebergs?
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Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time. I don’t know what time it’s “supposed” to be, EVER.
Did you have fun in Phoenix? Then it was a Good Time.
Love the pics!
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ybonesy,
My sister and I used to do something to each other called “burning each other’s hair.” About once a month, we’d say, “Hey, should burn each other’s hair?”
It was a split-end fighting technique. One person (the beautician) would tightly twist the hair of the client into little coils. Then a lit candle would be run across the coils burning off all the nasty split ends that had popped out of the rolled coil. It smelled hideous. Obviously.
The last time I burned her hair, I accidentally set one half of her head on fire. She wouldn’t look at me for days. The incident resulted in a rather unfortunate-looking haircut for her.
I should have gotten a belt calculator clip instead. Safer. Smarter.
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Honestly Sinclair, I know nothing of these calculator clips, but I would have loved to have owned one at times. I have suffered deeply from “little-miss-know-it-all” syndrome. Remember the TV character Murphy Brown? People used to call me Murphy. It wasn’t a compliment. It took a while, but I figured out not everyone needed my constant correction. Sure, sometimes people still need help with math. Recovery is a long process.
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I have never heard of this technique for “ridding” dead ends. Is it regional? I can’t imagine. You’ll have to write about this incident with your sister. It sounds hilarious. I’ve done ear candling with my sister, and I have worried about starting the side of her head on fire, and here you are…someone who has already done exactly that!
BTW, if anyone has any safe dead-end dead-ending techniques, send them my way. I have given up my beauty regime in favor of art and writing (something had to give) and am now the perfect specimen for trying out something to defrizzify.
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bloomgal: have you ever corrected your relatives for using “me” when they have been saying “I”? Not that I do that.
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leslie, phx was great, weatherwise. It is a good time to be there. The taxi driver said it had been a horrible summer and that the weekend and days before I got there, it had been in the 90s.
I like PHX proper, and some of the surrounding communities. Guadalupe, for example. I don’t care too much for the sprawling subdivision-looking communities, though. Seems like every one looks like every other one.
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My sister had learned the candle-flame-to-hair technique from friends at a slumber party. I guess we can assume the parents at that slumber party weren’t doing much supervising. Although, I’ll have to say, our mom watched us “burn” several times and never seemed concerned. When her hair caught on fire I yelled, “Shit!” It was probably the first word of profanity ever uttered in our home. My family was probably more mortified by the S-word than a half-bald, smoking-scalped daughter.
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YB,
The me-vs.-I-thing is not one of my particular peeves. My favorites are the non-existent words heighth and masonary. My lip is curling all on its own as I type them. Another is the unnecessary and strange use of the reflexive.
“I had a hard time finding this place.”
“Myself, too.”
Mike Myers poked fun at that one as Austin Powers saying, “Allow myself to introduce myself.”
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Where I work people make up words all the time. They turn nouns and other words into verbs. I once made up the verb “to verbinate” as a way to describe this phenomenon. We incentiveize and facilitize. I used to keep a list of the made-up words. Now I can’t remember them all.
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There was a young student of math
who said that the eightfold path
was OK for the Buddha
But he personally would’a
preferred a date with one ‘Cath’
And if that sounds like rubbish, I challenge ANYONE to create an intelligible limerick from the word ‘math’. Even calling it maths, like civilised nations do, probably doesn’t get you anywhere.
(I tried Sylvia Plath in line 2, but couldn’t get much out of that either.)
Incidentally, hi everybody, and what does the Quoin in QMonkey mean. please?
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P.S. I know I promised to write something for your carnival or whatever its called. As you can see, I haven’t got any further than trying to use the limerick like others use the pencil sharpener – to get ready. Wish me luck – I think I need it!
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stranger – if you ever need to know all the rhyming words out there for your word, use the RhymeZone link under our Tools We Use widget on the sidebar. I thought “path” was a great rhyming word for “math.”
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stranger, here ya go:
A quoin (rhymes with coin) is an expandable wedge used to support or anchor. Quoins are used by printers to hold the hand-set type in place in a printer’s chase, as cornerstones to anchor a building wall, or as keystones of an arch.
A monkey is playful and mischievous. But monkey mind jumps from thought to thought, is not present or grounded, and her escapades create busyness that keeps her away from her true heart.
QuoinMonkey is a writer who anchors monkey mind through practice in order to find her true heart.
Does that make any sense? Night everyone.
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Sinclair, I still laugh when I read your comments on the burned hair. I DO remember this technique from the sixties and seventies when give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair was IN.
I personally never tried it. But I had friends that did. There used to be so many commercials back then about split ends. No one talks about them anymore. What happened to split ends?
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Maybe we women have got so many conditioners and product, we don’t tease our hair any more, so the assumption is we don’t get split ends? I don’t know. I sure have them! My hairdresser (of 15ish years) died about three years ago. I haven’t found a regular stylist since, so I guess you can add that to the list. Most women get their hair cut regularly, is the assumption.
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Yes, what happened to split ends? They used to remind us of them all the time on TV commercials, didn’t they? My sisters and I (as common practice) would grab each other’s ponytails and look for split ends. I never see my nieces doing that to each other. They are in their late teens and early 20s. I wonder if they even know what a split end is.
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I should start a walking-living split-end museum and charge money to view and feel my hair.
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[…] Road Warrior Math -My Wednesday morning direct flight to PHX left ABQ at 7:45 am. -My direct flight left PHX the same day and returned to ABQ at 4:05 pm. -How many hours total did I spend in PHX on Wednesday? Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:45:46 +0000 Laughing on https://redravine.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/road-warrior-math/ – Original Article […]
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