Comments on: When I go on vacation, news breaks

By: tvrobert

tvrobert — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:12:35 +0000

I had this happen to co-workers when I was in TV news.

I always called it “Proximal Dissonance.”

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:21:45 +0000

News absentia?

Vacatio-breaker?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:37:10 +0000

I’ve got one. Confessed serial killer Joseph Duncan decided last Friday to change his plea agreement and his plea change hearing was scheduled for yesterday.

At the time I was in Seattle to enjoy the flooding - of which there was quite a bit - and to catch Van Halen (Dave, not Sammy) in concert at the Coliseum (What kids these days call Key Arena).

On the other hand … the last two times I’ve traveled to Seattle for the weekend there was a major weather event during my visit.

Last December I was there for the windstorm and most of the time I was in town the power was out. I flew in this Saturday to Sea-Tac during the snowstorm which turned into a rainstorm which turned into flooding.

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:25:59 +0000

sun has just broken out like a bad rash.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:35:27 +0000

The term is

LUCKY

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:28:11 +0000

I think Jon Stewart had a name for when he went on a one- or two-week break and all hell broke loose…

By: Gorman

Gorman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:34:26 +0000

In 5 years at my former station, I left the area on actual vacation for 12 days. On the eve of my first four-day vacation, an F3 tornado ripped through 2 towns on our market fringe, killing 8 people in one of them. And Katrina struck while my wife and I were away on our fifth anniversary.