"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:a5BUe.322045$_o.199192@attbi_s71:

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was suddenly floating. It was as if I was outside my body, and
observing the situation from above, and I realized how stupid my
predicament was, and how unsolvable his issues were, and how dumb I
was to ever leave the newspaper business.
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The whole flight took just 0.3 hours. The day was wonderful.

What a wonderful post!

I know it's taboo for production peole to talk to editorial people, but you
should consider trying to hook up with some of the folks at your paper to
write articles like this for the Travel or Living section!

Sadly, though, I suspect the pleasure of doing it would be diminished once
you were getting paid for it. I imagine the same holds true for any job -
even, amazingly, flying...