BVDH The Blog

De-icing at Sarasota-Bradenton International

Most of the country has been socked by cold temperatures, ice, and snow and South Florida is no exception.  This has presented a problem for airlines as they have had to deice planes at airports where they are not used to deicing.  Well, at SRQ they have no deicing equipment so they came up with any interesting solution last Wednesday: they moved all the planes into the sun so the ice would melt.   It delayed flights for about two hours. 

I'm back. For good this time.

So I've now been away from Emory for exactly 8 months.   I really like my post-Emory life.  DC is great. But there are so many things I miss from Emory.  Most of it is rather predictable: friends, the campus, College Council, Fox Brothers BBQ, etc, but I'm surprised by one thing I seem to miss more than I ever thought I would:

I miss writing.

I guess I never realized how much I enjoyed writing my column for the Emory Wheel.   It gave me an outlet to discuss or vent about whatever issue I found important.  I wrote it weekly for three years and bi-weekly for the last few months.  Sure, I had more than one fight with my editors over the years who would muzzle me for various reasons (mostly because the Wheel never has had and never will have any backbone), but more often than not I got to write what I wanted. 

I've always loved writing.  I do writing at work now, but most of it is technical writing and I miss normal writing.  I miss sharing my opinion even more than writing.  So I'm back to BVDH The Blog.  I know the last few re-starts of the blog have been aborted on takeoff, but I'm in for the long-haul now. 

I hope you'll stop by every once in a while.

Benjamin