#national airport

[istandonsnowpiles]

Curves and Lines

#arlington #false color #590nm #virginia #infrared #national airport #may #around dc #my work #photography

[bigtoeinthewind]

The perfect view leaving out of National Airport.

#dca #washington #dc #national airport

[robpegoraro]

It's been a trying summer of travel--but I have to rate myself as lucky

I really, seriously can't complain about today's flight delay.

As I type this, I should be at Dulles Airport–except the plane that’s supposed to fly me from there to Boston is itself three hours and 14 minutes behind schedule because of what United’s app described only as an “unexpected operational issue.” The experience should be all too familiar to most of you. Unusually bad weather and short-staffed air traffic control centers–especially around New…

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#ATC #avgeek #DCA #Dulles #FAA #flight delays #flight status #IAD #irregular operations #irrops #National Airport

[laundrybiscuits]

“Eddie,” Robin says, eyes wide in a way that means trouble. “Edward Munson, I sincerely hope your last will and testament is in order, because you are going to completely and totally die when I tell you who just got hired at Scoops Ahoy.”

Eddie groans. “Don’t tell me Tammy Thompson is giving up on her Nashville dreams.”

“No, I hate you, shut up forever, you’ll never guess.” Robin pauses, then in a dramatic whisper she’s definitely picked up from Eddie himself, says: “Steve Harrington.”

“Jesus. No shit?”

“Yeah, I have to train him. Oh my god it’s the worst. He’s so bad at, like, everything.”

She shoves at his shoulder until he moves out of the doorway of the trailer, and flings herself backwards onto his couch. “Like! Okay! I showed up to my shift thinking it would be a completely normal day in which I would be bored out of my skull distributing frozen dairy products to the flotsam and jetsam of Hawkins, and Ned’s like, hey Robin, you’re showing the new guy the ropes today. And then that freaking jackass has the freaking nerve to say—” Her voice drops a full register. “Uhh, nice to meet you, I’m Steve. Nice to meet you! God!”

Eddie cringes sympathetically, sucking air between his teeth. There’s a special kind of indignity to being so completely and utterly below the radar of Hawkins High royalty, even former bearers of the crown. It’s not as if Hawkins is a big town; Eddie’s pretty sure he could pick every single person in the graduating classes of ‘84 and ‘85 out of a crowd. He’ll probably be able to do it for ‘86 too, though he’s trying not to think about it too hard. So he’ll be a senior again (again) this fall, whatever. It’s fine. It’s whatever.

Once in a while, he wastes some time really, really wishing he’d gotten to know Robin earlier in the year. Maybe even last year. For undying friendship reasons, yeah, but also because with her in his corner, he might’ve actually passed enough of his classes to fucking graduate on his second fucking try.

But he’d only actually met her, like actually met her for real instead of passing her in the hall sometimes, when he’d let himself get suckered into rejoining band. It wasn’t like he could’ve brought his guitar in, but he let it slip to Miss Genovese that he could read music and keep time, and they needed someone to wallop the bass drum, and he figured a little experience fucking around with percussion might be the one thing he could salvage from the year. He’d just…been so goddamn tired of feeling stuck, spinning his wheels. Music was something he could actually handle; something he could actually get better at. Something he could master. He's man enough to admit he needed a win.

The actual songs were all stuffy Holst and Sousa numbers, but they’d had some fun technical bits he spent his evenings hammering out for a couple weeks. And then right around the point when he’d gotten good enough to get bored and think about quitting like last time, it had somehow wound up that shooting the shit with the gangly weirdo in the trumpet section was one of the best parts of his day. Unfortunately, by the time they’d gotten close enough for her to start bullying him about homework and shit, it had been way too late to save his chance at walking that ‘85 stage with assholes like Steve fucking Harrington.

Not that Harrington would’ve even noticed, apparently.

“Anyway, the one singular saving grace about the entire situation is that he looks even dumber in the sailor costume than I do, so at least that will make me feel better about my life until he gets fired for burning down the ice cream freezer or something like that. Eddie, I cannot stress this enough: he is so bad at this job.”

Eddie very tactfully does not bring up the litany of screw-ups that Robin’s admitted to over the last couple weeks since she started at Scoops; he just says, “Buckley, it sounds to me like you might be in need of some quality relaxation time this fine evening. I can offer you a nice cold beer, some herbal refreshment…or a fiendishly weird new song to learn with an intro riff that'll make you cry.”

Robin, inveterate nerd of his heart, sits up immediately and chirps, “New song, please!” just like he knew she would. She’s going to run off and elope with his acoustic one of these days, and he’s not even mad about it.

“Coming right up, m’lady,” says Eddie. “I promise this entire Harrington situation will be over before you know it, and neither of us will ever have to think about him again.”

(ETA: First chapter of this fic has been edited/expanded and posted on AO3)

#new fic time YET AGAIN yes I know I have other things on the boil #seasonal things even #but I have recently spent 36 hours without sleep in airports/airplanes bc the nation of britain is 0% equipped to handle subzero temps #I literally kept myself sane by rereading nice comments I'd saved on my phone so thanks for that y'all #and I just needed to work on a thing that wasn't an angsty mid-90s Steve POV set in chicago; this was next on the docket #I'm just out here vibing with my Eddie & Robin: Gay BFFs agenda #obviously this will be steddie eventually but it feels disingenuous to tag on this part #fyi this will not be fully compliant with Rebel Robin but there may be some details drawn from the book/podcast #fic: purify our misfit ways

[evilkaeya]

Taking teen skk to missions abroad must have been horrible. The world is their playground no matter where they are. They're never in their hotel rooms, they run down the hallways knocking on every door, Dazai keeps pushing people into the pool and Chuuya goes to the spa four times a day. They go missing for two days and come back in different clothes, Chuuya has a buzz cut, Dazai has a cat that looks like it fought three wars and a half, and with them is a foreign man who promises Mori he doesn't care if Mori has three children and receding hairline, he has seen his picture and has fallen in love with him ("Dazai kun who is this guy" "We found you a husband" "I don't need one" "Yes you do")

#one week into the missions mori gets a call from the local police #dazai hacked into the broadcasting station and played a footage of drunk chuuya cursing at a wall on national tv #they're banned from multiple airlines #they once got lost in an airport and tried to steal a jet #mori has several breakdowns throughout a day whenever he has to take skk on a mission with him #teen skk #skk

[alwaysbewoke]

#haiti #port-au-prince #gang violence #displacement #united nations #crisis #armed gangs #security #police stations #international airport #prisons #prime minister ariel henry #parliamentary elections #senate #government instability #multinational security mission #foreign intervention

[pointandshooter]

photo: David Castenson

#washington national airport #black and white photography #photographers on tumblr #washington dc #airport

[probatiostudies]

MISSA’S GOING TO BRAZIL AND NO ONE TOLD ME

#screw the hole discourse Y’ALL ARE FAKE FR 😭😭 #anyways PISSA NATION RISE #phil is right tho missa flies so much he deserves an award #THE BOI HAS LUGGAGE FILLED WITH CANDY AND IS EDITING VIDEOS IN AN AIRPORT #I LOVE HIM #qsmp #qsmp mention #opq mention #qsmp missasinfonia #missasinfonia #the great brazil meetup

[alanflowerspersonalblog]

[ 2023 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ]

#iphone #iphone 14 pro max #Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport #airport #alan flowers #photographers on tumblr #personal blog #daily blog #bts #street photography

[ohello0]

Who in the us needs to be [redacted] so Israel stops getting military weapons

How THE FUCK is Israel carpet bombing Palestinians but is also then still able to bomb Syria and Lebanon rn???? I think another country is being attacked as well but I can’t remember, regardless I just??

Where are they getting the time even? HOW MUCH SHIT DO THEY HAVE???

#israel is an apartheid state #it’s deadass fucking hilarious how imperialist nations around the world are trying to paint them as the victims rn #they’re not even the victims in other stories #‘help us we’re *blows up gaza* helpless! we cant *attacks a Syrian airport* go on much longer! 😩’ #what a fucking joke #be serious #also #Biden can suck the shit outta my ass for pushing that beheaded babies bullshit internationally #like deadass Joseph it’s time to kill yourself #free palestine #israeli apartheid

[istandonsnowpiles]

Terminal 2

#arlington #airport #virginia #national airport #cityscape #february #around dc #my work #photography

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Banking over Pascoe Vale on final approach to Essendon Airport, Naarm Melbourne, Kulin nation, circa 1962 (photographer unknown)

#found slide #pascoe vale #essendon airport #naarm #melbourne #Kulin nation #Victoria #australia #kodachrome #1962

[cinematicnomad]

2023 is coming to a close and i thought i’d share some random pics from over the year that i haven’t previously posted. happy new year’s eve! 🥂

#kat liveblogs her life #about me #kat travels #kat travels photography #some v random photos in here #in order: #1) my bedroom when the sunset is particularly gorgeous #2) my siblings and i at our cousin's wedding in dublin #3) my friends after emo night at 9:30 club #4) a close up of a watercolor of persimmons by ruth asawa at the whitney in NCY #5) a random photo of some hills around the hong kong airport at dusk #6) myself and my travel companions in pune india #7) a photo my friend chris (seen left) took of himself in a series he snuck on my phone at a party #8) delicious “girl dinner” eaten in san donostia-san sebastian spain #9) photo taken of the nationals baseball field while standing on the outfield at a work event last spring #10) a selfie taken on the roof of my old high school in kathmandu with the city behind me

[pretty-little-fools]

#national airlines #jfk airport #john f. kennedy international airport #new york #new york city #airport #vintage #60's #late 60's #1969 #queens

[larryshapiro]

Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Fire Rescue

#larry shapiro #larryshapiroblog.com #shapirophotography.net #larryshapiro #larryshapiro.tumblr.com #fire truck #firetruck #ARFF #Panther #rosenbaueramerica #rosenbauer panther #Rosenbauer America #DCA #washington reagan national airport #metropolitan washington airport authority fire department

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, who froze during a news conference Wednesday and earlier this year suffered a concussion after falling down, has also endured two other falls this year, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The first known time, in February, occurred in Finland when McConnell and a US delegation met with the Finnish President in Helsinki, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

As he got out of his car on a snowy day and walked towards his meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, the GOP leader tripped and fell, the sources said of the incident which hasn’t been previously reported. He dusted himself off and continued on with the meeting.

“It was also very icy to the top,” said GOP Sen. Ted Budd, a North Carolina Republican who witnessed the incident. “So, it could happen any of us.”

Budd added, “All of us are concerned,” though, he said, McConnell appeared normal after the Finland fall.

That incident in Finland occurred just days before McConnell fell in March at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, where he slammed his head and suffered a concussion and broken ribs, which sidelined him for nearly six weeks before he returned to the Senate.

And just this month at Reagan National Airport in Washington, McConnell was getting off the plane when he tripped and fell, a source familiar with this incident said. He returned to the Capitol later that day. NBC reported on the fall at the airport earlier on Wednesday.

McConnell’s office declined to comment on the incidents.

McConnell, 81, was a survivor of polio as a child and has long walked with a slight limp. He walks on stairs one at a time, and at times rests his hand on an aide to assist him through the Capitol. His falls have at times caused serious injuries, like in 2019, when McConnell fell at his Louisville home and fractured his shoulder.

But his health has received more attention since his fall at the Waldorf Astoria this year. On Wednesday, McConnell froze when speaking to reporters at his weekly news conference, where he was ushered to the side by concerned GOP senators. He later resumed the news conference and answered questions.

McConnell has declined to explain why he froze up, though an aide said he was feeling light-headed.

“I’m fine,” McConnell told reporters when asked about the incident.

It was the second time in as many months McConnell has had an unusual incident at his weekly news conference. The other incident occurred in June when he has having trouble hearing questions from reporters who could be clearly heard by the senators next to him.

McConnell, who broke the record for longest-serving Senate party leader in history this year, is up for re-election in 2026, but he hasn’t said if he would run again or try to stay as GOP leader in the next Congress, which starts in 2025.

In October, McConnell told CNN he would definitely complete his term for the seat he’s held since 1985. “Oh, I’m certainly going to complete the term I was elected to by the people of Kentucky, no question about that,” McConnell said.

But in May, after he suffered his concussion, McConnell declined to entertain the question about his plans to stay in his seat or run for leader.

“I thought this was not an interview about my future,” he said when asked at the time if he would serve out his term or run for leader again. “I thought it was an interview about the 2024 Senate elections.”

#us politics #news #cnn #cnn politics #2023 #sen. mitch mcconnell #kentucky #republicans #conservatives #gop #us senate #term limits #Helsinki #Finland #President Sauli Niinistö #Sen. Ted Budd #waldorf astoria #Reagan National Airport #washington dc