All posts by Erik Rubright

About Erik Rubright

A late 40-something individual living in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, USA who tends to be potvaliant. Want to know more?

Nightmare

Nightmare Death

I woke up at 2:39 this morning from a nightmare.

I was in the upstairs bathroom, sitting on the floor for some reason. (I don’t remember that what led up to that moment in the dream, but I know there were “chapters” before that moment.) From out the window I saw some teenagers (that I don’t recognize) walking down the hill towards the house. They rapidly turn around like they were jolted by something they can see that I can’t. As they are turning away, someone comes into focus in the window. I don’t know who it is. But they are pointing a pistol at me. I tried to scurry behind something, but he kept tracking me with the pistol, then shot. Everything went dark. I woke up immediately.

What the hell?

Until next time...
Erik

Be Careful What You Ask For

From my bud Alexander:

Ask me a question about EACH of the following and when enough questions have been submitted I will post an answer to what I consider to be the best question from each category:

1. Friends
2. Sex
3. Music
4. Religion
5. Love
6. Blogging

Then post this on your blog and see what questions you get asked!

Hell… I might just actually answer EVERY question instead of just one of the best 🙂

Update: I have been answering the questions… see the comments for the answers.

Until next time...
Erik

Picture Pages…

While I’m going through the pictures that I did manage to get while on our trip, I thought I’d post at least one to hold you over.

Mosaic
“Feel the flow, here we go, through the Universe of Energy”

Leave it to me to be the one to NOT take normal pictures of anything.

Who uses an online photo hosting service? And what do you like and not like about said service? I’m looking for recommendations (for the photo hosting, cb…).

Until next time...
Erik

One more “Ugh” and I’m done complaining.

Last complaining post for a while. I hope.

After arriving at the Tulsa airport and then hoisting it to the baggage carousel of love. We wait. Finally the luggage starts puking it’s way out of the metal esophagus after doing A.T.M. on the plane. We have two bags. Among what appeared to be 300 other people’s luggage. The third piece of luggage out was one of ours. Then we wait. And wait. 15 minutes of waiting while luggage is regurgitated from the plane’s belly. The last piece of luggage off was our second one. How did that happen?

We then stroll out to the parking garage to retrieve our car. Which won’t start. The battery is dead. Do you know how hard it is to get a jump start at almost midnight? I finally managed to get in touch with airport security to get a jump.

Jump done. Now there’s a door open light on. All the doors are closed. Grrr. I get to a gas station to refuel and look at the hatchback. The cargo net has somehow wedged itself into the locking mechanism leaving the hatchback in an “open” state. Which means that the overhead door lights had been on since we left a week ago. Which explains the dead battery in the car.

And the drive home was 2 hours of London-esque fog.

I think yesterday was the worst travel day I have ever experienced.

Okay. I’m done now. I’ll post happy thoughts and pictures as I retrieve them from the temporary camera.

Until next time...
Erik

Ugh, part II

What the hell is wrong with the airline industry. If any other “real” business operated like this, it would have gone away a long time ago.

I know they can’t help weather-related issues. But over-booking flights by 44 people? WTF? I’m sure there’s some statistical reason to what they do, but still. Maybe they should start publicly explaining what they do and be held accountable. Wait… that would make sense.

The husbear and I are sitting here in Dallas waiting on our flight that keeps getting pushed back. It was originally supposed to leave at 7:00 PM, but now it’s been pushed back multiple times and is currently not going to leave until 9:25 PM.

I really wish we had an alternate means of high-speed transportation in this country. Like maybe high-speed trains that maybe straddled that wasted median space on the Interstates. Hell, let Disney build it. I love the monorail system they have. And it’s how old?

Until next time...
Erik

Ugh…

Let’s say this has been an interesting trip to Florida this year for Gay Days.

We did a little too much of the “go, go, go” stuff and we are all worn out. Next time, not so many theme parks and a lot more relaxation between events. I think we slept maybe an average of about six hours a night and were on the go all the others. I think that’s the only “bad” thing about traveling with a large group of friends—there is always something everyone wants to do.

I lost the digital camera and a few days of pictures. I’m still bummed about that. I purchased a “temporary” replacement so I could get some pictures during the days we had left. I bought the camera at a shop on International Drive. I think it “fell off the back of a truck”. And not a damn thing in the entire store had a price tag on it.

I also lost two cellphones (both the husbear’s and mine) at the same time. Luckily the cellphones were later found and returned to us. (My apologies to both Mike and Sorted for not calling—the lost cellphone incident and trying to herd a large group of people to do stuff the whole time killed my free time. I’ll email you both when I return home.)

I also didn’t visit with any of my family while I was down here. I’m sure I will hear about it later when they find out. I started thinking—and I am sure this is going to sound selfish—but they don’t make any effort to come visit me and “my” family. So why should I go out of the way to visit them every time I am down here in Central Florida? Yes I could be the “bigger man” here, but after so many years it has become a little one-sided.

Now the husbear and I are sitting at the Orlando airport waiting on our flights. Our connecting flight from Dallas to Tulsa was cancelled by the airline for “technical reasons”. Lucky we arrived at the airport early—we came early because friends who had to drop off the shared rental car had to catch an earlier flight. We had a friendly and helpful attendant find us seats on a later flight that—so far—hasn’t been cancelled. Now there is severe weather over Dallas, resulting in a delay of our first flight….

I just want to get home and sleep in my own bed.

Until next time...
Erik