30% of the country thinks Trump is the second coming of Jesus. They cannot be reached. But his purported ability to lower the price of eggs is what tipped the election. I still see eggs in the store at $5.09/dozen. All about the economy. The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" should be Dems theme song.

Having attended virtually every anesthesiology national meeting in the last 35 years, I can attest that all the large urban convention centers are similarly spread out. But New Orleans is an epicurean's delight. Enjoy.

Apparently quite literally smoke and mirrors.

Amazing. I had to move away from the DMV to get good snow there (Pikesville, MD native here). Now I live in the snow hole of the east coast, Philadelphia (1.8").

Hope your pain resolves soon. You are teaching this old, frustrated, wannabe meteorologist a lot.

Just flew from Philadelphia to Shamokin, PA (96 miles) and my altimeter setting went from 30.40" to 30.29". And yet, not a drop of wind to mix up a very stout inversion up around 900hPa.

Merry Christmas, Erik.

I hear you. Has it really only been 47 days since the election? Feels like 4 years. Would that it actually were.

I was surprised to see you are now living in the Midwest. Guess you had to escape the droughty Northeast.

Btw, there is a site called seatguru.com that may help you avoid such fates in the future.

Sure hope they didn't charge you extra. Best part about general aviation is that I always have a window seat and plenty of legroom. No alcohol...same as Spirit.

Yeah. These social media sites can be pretty freaky. I can't tell you how many fake women follow me over on Twitter.

Couldn't reply to your earlier post but can here. So congratulations on your PhD exams!