Aren’t you glad we have men like this protecting our country? 

Alabama Investor has an interesting article about a family in Georgia who was the recipients of an Extreme Makeover Home Edition back in 2005.  Their home was paid off and $250k was raised for their children’s college.  Now they have lost their home to foreclosure (including the $250k).  How could this happen?  It blows my mind.  Click here to read the full article.

I’ve never watched Frank TV, but I love his impersonations of Charles Barkley, President Bush, Bill Walton and Donald Trump.  Check out some of his clips.

He is coming to town in October so we may be seeing him then.

Isn’t this a good picture? 

I hated to take Roz to the airport today.  She originally came here for a job interview and ended up staying 10 days.  It was a good change of plans, but I didn’t enjoy seeing her so sick.  She fought thru it though.  Hopefully I’ll see her within two weeks. 

Since I’ve been flying a lot lately I’ve become even more fond of Southwest.  Have you flown with them?  I know many people give them a bad rap because it’s a ‘no-frills’ airline, but I’ll take that any day since they let me change flights all the time and consistently have the cheapest fares.  Plus they have great direct flights out of Birmingham.
 
I don’t know for sure, but I think they were the first airline to not use the traditional ‘hub-and-spoke’ system like the other airlines.  Does anyone know if this is for sure true?  I’m not going to research it, so we can just go with this.  Several other airlines have adopted a hybrid hub-and-spoke system in the past decade or two.   

I did not like their new boarding system when I first experienced it back in December, but since then I’ve come to really like it.  It keeps people from standing in line well before the plane is ready to be boarded. 

I asked a flight attendant (in the old days she would be called a Stewardess) on Sunday how many days in a row she works.  She said, “I’m probably not the best person to ask that because I only work six days a month.”  She’s been with the company for 20 years and she said seniority is everything with them.  She flies when she wants.  I like that kind of job.  Of course, I don’t know how much she’s getting paid, but obviously she can afford it.  This is one reason why all their employees are much happier than the other airlines. 

I read a great book last year called “Lessons in Loyalty” about how Southwest Airlines operates and what type of people they employ.  It’s like one big party.  I’d love to work for them.  Too bad they don’t have planning or logistics positions in my area.