Congestion-Induced Comments

It's Saturday morning and I can literally hear and feel every beat of my heart. The congestion in my head is so bad that every beat of my heart makes a noise...'thump, thump, thump' goes my heart and it's driving me nuts. Of course, I'd rather hear it than not, all other things being equal, but it would be SOOOO nice to have this congestion leave me. Every beat seems to send a shudder through the middle of my head, too, so I can feel the congested knot in the middle of my head slam against the exerior of my windpipe, somewhere deep inside my 'surely-it's-exploding' head. Pills seem to be doing no good. I may take matters into my own hands...go for a high speed run around the block, with the objective of unblocking this mass of stuff in my head, causing it to pour forth. Eeeccchh! This is miserable.

I have not flown United Airlines in quite some time, but I do know I have a United frequent flyer number (but no clue where the card it). My recent trip to Dubrovnik made me wonder whether there might be any way I could get mileage credit, so I started exploring. My return trip was booked on United, although I flew Lufthansa through a code-sharing arrangement. I'm going to try to get United to give me credit for the return miles. The flight from Boston to Amsterday was on Northwest, though I flew KLM. I have no idea whether I have a Northwest of KLM mileage card, but doubt it. Had I flown American Airlines, my least favorite but most frequently used carrier, I would have earned enormous numbers of miles, but would have spent far more money for the tickets. I am sure I won't earn enough miles for free flights, etc. on this recent trip, but it's possible I can get enough miles to trade for magazine subscriptions or other such low-value goodies. I'm always willing to accept the almost valueless 'gifts' from near-bankrupt airlines.

I came upon a list of things my wife and I would like to do/see during our lifetimes. The list that follows is not all-inclusive; we have many more items on it, but somehow some of the items have been separated from the list I came across. I'm documenting it here for easy reference and as an incentive for wealthy readers of this blog to take pity on us and fund some or all of the trips we would like to take. Understand, some of the items on the list only my wife and I understand, thanks to our shorthand communication with one another.

• Aransas Pass "lodge"
  
• Grand Canyon & Sedona
  
• Halifax, Nova Scotia
  
• Fort Worth Livestock Show & Rodeo
  
• Tierra del Fuego
  
• Pacific Coast
  
• Cape Code
  
• Boston Ice Cream Festival
  
• New England Fall foliage
  
• Fjords of Norway
  
• Las Vegas
  
• Tarrantula Train
  
• Albuquerque Balloon Festival