Easter, here and there

Happy Easter, for those who observe it today! :)

After the little ones do their hunt here, we're off to 9am church and then I'll be dropped-off at San Jose airport, headed to Atlanta.

James made it safely, despite being threatened by the airline with the police and placement in a foster home as an "abandoned child" when his uncle's flight to Atlanta was held up in Dallas and my mom had to go to the airport instead... he wound up virtually a prisoner of Northwest for two hours. I was very angry, but at least he's safe now...

whew... glad to be in one piece

I nearly didn't make it here, tonight... severe wind shear in a thunderstorm caught our 737 on final into Atlanta and slammed us down toward the ground. The pilot reacted and hit full throttle... we were tail-down and the engines were shaking and some people were screaming... we popped out of it. My guess is that it knocked us down from about 500 feet AGL down to 100-150. We were off-line for the runway, way too low and engines high, so we did a go-around. First commercial go-around I'd been on in a few years. We were also down to our last half-hour of fuel, given lots of in-flight holds. Just as well that we weren't heavier, I guess (wry grin). ATC turned the approach directions around 180 degrees, and when we finally landed (much better, still gusty) the passengers broke out in cheering and applause. We'd dodged one... I congratulated and thanked the co-pilot on my way out.

We were already 3+ hours late leaving San Jose.... I was supposed to have been here at 8:30pm. So I'm tired, besides coming down off of near-miss adrenaline. Dinner was a cookie and some mixed nuts.

Otherwise... Easter was good, at home. David and Kevin hunted candy and plastic eggs that I'd hidden the previous night, patgreene made a nice breakfast, and church was overflowing, probably 300 at the 9am kid's service. I missed having traditional hymns.... needed something more joyous and symbolic. Bubblegum second-hand Christian-rock is OK for outreach and ordinary time at an informal service, but IMO is just too surface-level, too shallow for Easter.