<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">You know, I travel a lot.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I meant a lot. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Like I wake up in a king sized hotel bed from heaven and after stretching and thinking <em>Mmmmm</em> I think, what city am I in?
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But never in my years of business or personal travel (and I started at the ripe old age of three weeks) have I ever taken a flight departing on the hour.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I always joked about having schedule departure flight times of 5:07 or 12:02.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But this week, I experienced a first… twice.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I took flights to and from Chicago which not only got me to my destination way earlier than expected but they also left on the hour!
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">2PM leaving LaGuardia to spend Mardi Gras in <span style="text-decoration:line-through">New Orleans</span> Chicago
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And yesterday I was on a 4:00 PM flight home in order to make sure I was able to read bedtime stories to the kidlets. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">It was also the first time I've been in Chicago and left O'Hare without any delays at all.  I wonder if it's premature to write O'Hare off my list of airports to avoid.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But sadly it wasn't the first time I caught a cold from an arrogant business traveler. 
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So as I sat there figuring out which recipes from Michele Bernstein I'd recreate from the March issue of O magazine, there was a cold brewing inside me.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And now it's knocked me off my feet.  Horrible timing considering I am scheduled to work this weekend.</span></p>