Brother-in-law arrived tonight. As with every visit, something catastrophic happens, and someone always dies.
Past visits: September 11th (yes, that September 11th)
People dying: Princess Diana, my dad, the list goes on.
Here is to running count for this visit:
Catastrophe: Hurricane Katrina (early, but still timely)
Chief Justice Renquist (happened the moment he got off the plane)
Batten down the hatches folks, it's going to be a fun visit, and the in-laws aren't even scheduled to come for another 2 weeks.
Batten down the hatches 8/7/2005
Ok, it's official. Brother in Law is coming the first week of September, and the in-laws (as far as we know) are still planning on coming the third week of September.
This means taking all of our vacation days, which we don't mind doing for Brother in law, but the whole taking vacation for the "weekend" the in-laws will be here is torture.
With BIL, all we'll do is go out for coffee, lounge, eat, lounge, play Unreal Tournament (and now we actually have enough computers to do that).
Since we'll have multiple members of the family in the same state at once during one month, I'm guessing nothing short of a natural disaster or terrorist attack will occur, since that is a tradition with visits. I'll have to call my mom and warn her to stay away from power tools for those weeks.
This means taking all of our vacation days, which we don't mind doing for Brother in law, but the whole taking vacation for the "weekend" the in-laws will be here is torture.
With BIL, all we'll do is go out for coffee, lounge, eat, lounge, play Unreal Tournament (and now we actually have enough computers to do that).
Since we'll have multiple members of the family in the same state at once during one month, I'm guessing nothing short of a natural disaster or terrorist attack will occur, since that is a tradition with visits. I'll have to call my mom and warn her to stay away from power tools for those weeks.
Prepare for the Visit 6/1/2005
A month or so ago, the in-laws inquired about when the best time would be for them to visit (a certain place freezing over came to mind), so they decided they would visit for a weekend in September 2005.
A WEEKEND
A few weeks ago, we received the following e-mail:
Just got off line with Delta. Have Tickets on HOLD as follows:
Arr BWI 9/22 (Thurs) 4:10 PM -- don't worry about meeting plane; we
can drink coffee till you get off work OR we could rent car
Lv BWI 9/27 (Tues) 4:55 PM -- again, don't worry about
transportation; we can sit in the airport and read OR return rental.
Seats are assigned; all went well (isn't that scary). We are using
our mileage.Changes can be made if necessary.
Let us know whether or not you see a problem at this point. We know
your jobs have emergencies; don't try to predict the future. Just let
us know your feelings at this point. As time get's closer; we'll
discuss if Dad & I should go to Motel Mon 26th & Tues 27th -- so you
could get back to work.
/end of e-mail
Could they BE more pathetic. "Oh, don't worry about us, we can sit in the airport for hours and hours while we wait for you both to get off your jobs (whatever they are, as we're too self centered to ask)".
And since when did a weekend start on Thursday and end on Tuesday? Who gets a weekend like that? A weekend?
Oh, it gets better, as they've had to revise their itinerary, now they're arriving on Thursday and leaving on WEDNESDAY! Something about B's sister not doing well, so they're stopping out to visit her and that's the only way they could do that. Ok, sister not doing well? How about spending that WEEKEND with her?
There are only 4 more months left until they arrive, and I can't even begin to imagine what their itineray will look like by then. Perhaps spending the entire month with us? Yeah, in a hotel. ugh.
A WEEKEND
A few weeks ago, we received the following e-mail:
Just got off line with Delta. Have Tickets on HOLD as follows:
Arr BWI 9/22 (Thurs) 4:10 PM -- don't worry about meeting plane; we
can drink coffee till you get off work OR we could rent car
Lv BWI 9/27 (Tues) 4:55 PM -- again, don't worry about
transportation; we can sit in the airport and read OR return rental.
Seats are assigned; all went well (isn't that scary). We are using
our mileage.Changes can be made if necessary.
Let us know whether or not you see a problem at this point. We know
your jobs have emergencies; don't try to predict the future. Just let
us know your feelings at this point. As time get's closer; we'll
discuss if Dad & I should go to Motel Mon 26th & Tues 27th -- so you
could get back to work.
/end of e-mail
Could they BE more pathetic. "Oh, don't worry about us, we can sit in the airport for hours and hours while we wait for you both to get off your jobs (whatever they are, as we're too self centered to ask)".
And since when did a weekend start on Thursday and end on Tuesday? Who gets a weekend like that? A weekend?
Oh, it gets better, as they've had to revise their itinerary, now they're arriving on Thursday and leaving on WEDNESDAY! Something about B's sister not doing well, so they're stopping out to visit her and that's the only way they could do that. Ok, sister not doing well? How about spending that WEEKEND with her?
There are only 4 more months left until they arrive, and I can't even begin to imagine what their itineray will look like by then. Perhaps spending the entire month with us? Yeah, in a hotel. ugh.
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