Hey, Hank

[BobSch]

Got this from another board and thought of you.

Stationed in Okinawa, Japan, my son and his wife were expecting their first baby. I was elated when he called me at work with the news of my grandchild's birth. I took down all the statistics and turned to relate it all to my co-workers.

"I'm a grandmother!" I declared. "It's a baby girl, and she weighs five pounds."

"When was she born?" someone asked.

Recalling the date my son told me, I stopped, looked at the calendar, and said in amazement, "Tomorrow!"

[leehljp]

Yes, even now, it is Wednesday here and just mid morning Tuesday for you fellows! We are 15 hours ahead of Central Time in Winter, 14 in DST.

• I like it when we take off from Japan around noon and arrive in Seattle, San Francisco, or LA several hours before we left!

• I used to call back to the States and tell people how the day is going to be.

• On New Years we talk to our family back in the States while it is still "last year".

• I also achieved every woman's "aging" dream. We took off from Hawaii early in the morning of my 39th birthday and in a few quick hours crossed the International Date Line. Never did have a 39th Birthday! I have crossed the IDL twice on (my) birthdays.

[Ed62]

I also achieved every woman's "aging" dream. We took off from Hawaii early in the morning of my 39th birthday and in a few quick hours crossed the International Date Line. Never did have a 39th Birthday! I have crossed the IDL twice on (my) birthdays.

And you didn't know your job had perks like that.

Ed

[crokett]

There's a riddle that goes something like this: Twins are born, yet the one who was born second is older than the one who was born first. How can this be? The answer is they are born on a plane and the plane crosses the dateline between births.