{"id":4277,"date":"2012-01-02T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2012-01-02T23:25:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:25:50","slug":"first-day-back-out-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4277","title":{"rendered":"First Day Back Out for 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m in New Orleans, finally. \u00a0The only thing good I can say about Delta is I did get here alive! \u00a0Every other thing that could go wrong did go wrong! \u00a0I flew Delta from the day I joined Nikon 9 years ago and for the first 7 and a half years I loved them, then they merged with Northwest and a bunch of other carriers and became the world’s largest and now, in my opinion, worst airline. \u00a0It seems that the former great airline that was always on time, always friendly and helpful has now become none of the above. \u00a0This morning our flight was delayed because two crews showed up to fly us to Atlanta, and the one crew that was supposed to fly us had not had the proper paperwork filed! \u00a0When we finally left 25 minutes late, we then had sit on the tarmac because Atlanta Air Traffic Control held up flights in bound for 20 minutes, then when we finally landed in Atlanta we were delayed for fifteen minutes waiting to get into our gate, then the pink tag bags were very late. \u00a0I ran to the train, and ran to my next gate and made it just before they closed the door. \u00a0Packed in like a sardine, I finally went from a boil to a simmer, to calm, but I had to do something in honor of their lack of performance today, so here is my newest t-shirt!<\/p>\n

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O.K. having vented, I did get to the hotel and picked up my credentials for the Sugar Bowl and met with Mike Anskat our Repair Technician and planned our day at the stadium, (Super Dome), for the days activities.<\/p>\n

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I did get out in the afternoon to pick up some supplies and shot a few images of the French Quarter. \u00a0I just carried my point and shoot and was happy with the variety of stuff I could \u00a0produce with a simple camera. \u00a0Not having to make lens decisions actually led to a much more relaxed stroll.<\/p>\n

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Hope you like the results.<\/p>\n

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New Orleans painting on side of building.<\/p>\n

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The Hot Sauce capital of the world!<\/p>\n

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So I will rest up and post tomorrow evening after I have some Sugar Bowl stuff to share! \u00a0Thanks for the prayers, please continue, the enemy got the best o fme this morning but I recovered!<\/p>\n

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In Him,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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A nice sunset promises a better day tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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  I’m in New Orleans, finally. \u00a0The only thing good I can say about Delta is I did get here alive! \u00a0Every other thing that could go wrong did go wrong! \u00a0I flew Delta from the day I joined Nikon 9 years ago and for the first 7 and a half years I loved them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}