www.fairflyer.com

I know it’s the first day I’ve had this thing up, but I just realized that my current name: FairFlyer is kind of already in use. It’s just sad to know that even if I wanted to liberate my User Name from the constrains for WordPress (r), I’ll be unable to have my own domain name.

Very funny Horizon/Alaska Airlines. You’ve won this time. FairFlyer, I get it, you have ‘Fair’ prices for your flights. Well, I’m talking about freedom and ethics and how to get even cheaper airfares. So I like my User Name better my way.

For the record, this blog is not a subsidiary, affiliated to or in anyway condones or promotes, nor discourages booking flights aboard Horizon/Alaska Airlines. Assholes.

I’ll figure out a new name tonight.

Just in time for Christmas

Do you have a Senator or Congressman/woman on your holiday gift list? Well you may want to pay attention to this just learned tidbit of information. As you are probably aware, gifts to Congressional Leaders are under ’strict’ guidelines that are most easily summarized as anything $50 or less. This mostly means that John Warner (R-VA), (just an example) won’t be getting that vacation to Aspen on private jets. However, there are always exceptions. It won’t be a “vacation,” it will be “space dispersement over frozen water research.”

Yet still, for most of us, we might just be getting our favorite Pelosi (D-CA) a nice signed copy of Harry Potter. In this case, we’ll say you get it on sale for $17.99, even though retail price is $29.99. It still doesn’t matter because, what they are looking for is fair value of the items.

Here is where it gets tricky, because you’ll write Congresswoman Pelosi a nice card, but what really puts the icing on the cake is the J.K. Rowling signature. To buy a copy on Ebay we are looking at a good $125 minimum up to $700!! However, if you happen to know J.K. personally, and she’ll autograph your gifts, then thankfully, this gift will still satisfy Congressional Gift Giving Guidelines as long as it meets one last criteria.

Ms. Rowling needs to be careful to what she writes in the book. Certainly, you would expect her to sign her name, but if she goes further to include a personal message: ex. “Thank you for supporting [blank] resolution” or even “Keep up the good work for us!” you’re going to be in some trouble. You can not suggest that the gift is in appreciation for any kind of official act.

Hello world!

Yes, indeed–”hello world”. This hereby marks my first ever blog entry. However, this is not to say this is the first time I have ever written on the internet. I think there may have been others that I started. Made one response that basically said, “I’m going to write in this every day.” Well, suffice to say, that was not the case and currently I wouldn’t know where to find my own internet postings if I had a map of the whole internet.

Well this is totally awkward. But I guess you have to start somewhere… Maybe I’ll post again in a few minutes so I can move on.

BTW. I hate my user name. Future readers will say, really? i think it is ironic (that’s because I have since changed it).