CoCo's Corner

Social media, such a powerful tool.  Or is it a weapon?  Or is it a scam?  Or is it a platform?  Whatever it is, it is certainly powerful. I am on several social media sites.  I have my blog.  I have a Facebook account.  And I have others.  It's the way of the world.  There are not many people out there that do not have a social media link - including my husband who absolutely refused!!  I won't reveal what he has. Today, I was struck by the epiphany of the power of social media.  Whether you agree or disagree, social media sends things along a technical superhighway and people can say or do almost anything that can be truth among some and fallacy among others.  The facts may or may not matter in certain stories!  Today, the Supreme Court made a decision.  Now, whether or not you agree or disagree with it, it's a major decision for our country.  As this decision was sent down, I get the usual stuff in my...

First a history lesson.  Not your usual history lesson, but a lesson about how I learn. When I first applied for the job I am doing now, the advice I got from my friend Marsan was to study the airline codes.  And I did.  I wrote them down on index cards and that stack was about six inches high.  I needed to learn them all.  A lot of them were pretty simple - some of them were pretty hard.  Absolutely no way to reference why they were what they were.  Most of them were international ones that I had trouble with and a few were domestic.  I would go through that stack of cards every chance I got.  Then I found a website on the internet, Quizlet, where someone had already done the work for me.  It was computer based.  It would test me on the codes.  One of those codes was Kalispell, Montana.  The code is FCA and I could not get it.  So, finally I came up with an acronym for it:  effing cold airport.  You c...