Moving Blog to WordPress

After numerous attempts to contact Google about the problems with my blog, I'm giving up and moving to WordPress. Accordingly, please follow along at pizzainmotion.wordpress.com.

I will remove each of you from e-mail updates on Blogspot. I hope to see all 3 of my followers over at Wordpress, where we hope to have less spam.

Dulles (IAD) AeroTrain Pics-Now Open!

I can't imagine anyone actually still reads my blog, due to all the SPAM. I can't tell you I have a good solution, other than daily e-mails to Google and changing my password to something the Pentagon can't break. And yet, more SPAM this morning.

I was supposed to travel last Monday, when the train opened up for the first time. Unfortunately, my daughter got sick, so I had to cancel my trip.

This morning, I cleared through security and headed down the escalator to give the AeroTrain a try. There are two separate trains at the main terminal. One heads to concourse B, the other to A and C. When I arrived, there was a train waiting to go to B, where I was heading. Officials weren't letting anyone board it, so after about 5 minutes, I just hopped on the train to A, figuring I would just walk the length of B.

The train was a quick 60 second ride to A. Upon departing, we were directed up an escalator. In front of me were two signs. One directed me to an elevator for concourse B, along with C, D etc. The other directed me to the left to concourse A.

Don't be overly confused. The elevator to B is actually an elevator right back downstairs to the platform to get back on the train.

Two escalators later I arrived in concourse A. Kind of. For those that know IAD well, I was standing at the end of the B concourse, by the escalators that head up to the walkway to A. There was another sign directing me to an escalator DOWN to go to the B concourse. All of the B gates in front of me had been changed to A gates, up to the point the underground walkway bisects what was the old B terminal.

There was someone there assisting people, and I obviously looked confused, since I knew I was in B, even though this portion wasn't B anymore.

This official assured me I could just get back on the escalator downstairs, and head to B. When I said, "Couldn't I just walk 300 feet that way?", pointing in the direction of the B concourse, he said, "I guess so."

Brilliance abounds. I'm not sure which genius decided me needed to rename half of the B concourse to the A concourse, but I'm sure there's historical significance.

Anyway, enjoy the pics.

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Stupid Politician Tricks

This is not a knock on the Democratic party, since the last time a politician said something this stupid was Republican George Allen calling a rival's intern macaca on video.

Martha Coakley is locked in a ferocious battle for Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts. In a radio interview on Friday, she decided it would be a good idea to call Curt Schilling "another Yankees fan".

Yes, that Curt Schilling. While there are a lot of things I might call Curt Schilling, a Yankees fan probably wouldn't make the list. She tried to cover it up in the interview, but only made it worse when she stated the obvious, that Curt Schilling no longer plays for the Red Sox.

She probably missed the part where he may be one of the most beloved sports figures in Massachusetts history.

Oh, well. She didn't need the male vote to win, anyway, right?

Special Interests Alive and Well

While I'm sure members of the Democratic party have really good reasons, I hope my friends who vote the left side of the ticket will agree that one of the latest changes to health insurance legislation really just isn't right.

This article in the WSJ details that, in exchange for AFL-CIO support, the Democrats have included a 5-year exception on taxing high value insurance plans.

Doesn't sound so bad, right? Well, it is if you don't belong to a union. Because, as a normal, hard working adult, I don't qualify for the discount. Only union members will receive the benefit of this exception.

I keep hearing that this is balanced legislation. I haven't spent a ton of time reading it, but the excerpts I've seen seem fair. But, this exception is crap.

Really. A union employee works harder than me, and deserves this more than me? Or, they just happened to give more money to the right politician holding his hand out.

Apologies for SPAM

I've reported the SPAM to Google again. I'm hoping this gets fixed soon.