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delayed flights

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.08.01

We've had such bad weather that everyone heading West has had badly delayed flights.

What was supposed to be a noon flight for my brother on Tuesday turned into a 18:00 departure, and Wednesday's 09:00 flight for Oma and Opa finally left the ground after 21:00!

It's because of terrible thunderstorms. We've had very little rain this year, and what rain we've had has mostly come in very rain torrential downpours. So it was this week, when some of the first rain in weeks pounded the southern part of the province so badly that highways were closed.

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One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force