Coffee & Pretzels

FLDrifter · Mon Oct 24, 2022 11:38 pm

Hello,
Running a little late this afternoon to get my Monday cartoon out. Today's is light an fluffy one, pun intended. Sure I like to put out belly slappers, but sometimes less is more.
Start a 4-day tomorrow, so I'll see (or hear) ya'll out there.
Cheers,
JK

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FLDrifter · Fri Oct 28, 2022 1:03 am

Running late today...

Some of my cartoons are beginning to take on a time-capsule feeling. I'm sure it took a few years for Uber and Lyft to become a thing, but it felt that one day they weren't there and the next day they were. This one felt right at the time in the spring of 2016.

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FLDrifter · Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:30 pm

Halloween usually is pretty easy to come up with something, so many characters to choose from and you can never go wrong with witches!

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FLDrifter · Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:17 am

Day three of three and running late, throwing this one out of our crew room.

Some of my cartoons seem to be aging better than others. This one is based on the bar in the JFK Hilton that I used to stay at all the time back when I flew a lot of LAX-JFK transcons. At least they had a great breakfast.

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FLDrifter · Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:46 pm

Good morning,

Once again, I'm sending this one from a hotel room. Day 2 of three. I love the psychology of why we do what we do and how we couch those decisions. Today's cartoon pokes at that human trait.
Be safe out there, see you in the flight levels! (well, I'll see you on TCAS first!)

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FLDrifter · Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:42 pm

I did this cartoon in 2016, four years before Covid! I have never been ahead of any trend in my life. You know a fashion choice is on it's way out when you see me rocking it. I was a cockpit wiper way before Covid too.

The flight deck of an airliner can be a pretty gross place. Just imagine a bunch of middle-aged people scratching, coughing, sneezing, farting and picking their nose on a six hour trans-con. Yay.

The captain I drew is based on one of my favorite pilots I've flown with too.

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FLDrifter · Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:11 pm

I realize that with this one I'm stepping out of my lane a little, not that I haven't done corporate stuff in the past, but this one is much more pointed than a general cartoon lampooning human behavior that surfaces in large corporate environments.

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FLDrifter · Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:14 pm

This cartoon was a fun one to do as I was inspired from some scenes from our home. Plus one of our daughters illustrated the graphic on the girl's shirt. The free note pads in the hotel rooms are nice too.

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FLDrifter · Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:06 pm

Hope everyone has a fun thanksgiving filled with too much food, family, and friends!

The kitchen smells making you feel like a 12-year-old again inside
The drunk uncles talking politics, during a pop-up game of touch football with Grandma winning the scoring touchdown,
Having too many people at the table so you take it for the team, sit at the kid's table, then find the conversation is actually more engaging.
Notice that the aunts are dressing too young while the teenage girls are dressing too old.
Accidentally taking a nap after a nip of brandy from the snifter grandpa slid you with a wink during a football game on TV you don't care about.
Waking up to the clatter of dishwashing then sheepishly join in to help
Realizing time is ephemeral and indescribably precious while your wife drives you and the kids home in the dark

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FLDrifter · Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:37 pm

We were in the White Mountains of Arizona a few years ago where there are quite a few wild turkeys and my daughters and I saw one fly. We looked at each other in awe, then started laughing. They actually fly pretty well, and they're beautiful too! They won't be confused with the agility of a sparrow, or fine accuracy of a humming bird, but they can get it done. Funny, I can relate!

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FLDrifter · Mon Nov 28, 2022 5:08 pm

Some carttoons mean more than others for me to put out, but this one hits very close to home. I love hearing how many airlines are in a pickle trying to attract pilots.

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FLDrifter · Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:05 pm

Many of my cartoons just seemed obvious to do, and this definitely was one of them. I imagine bird strikes could have been a problem as well as it was probably important to have a really good TCAS system on an invisible airplane.

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FLDrifter · Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:19 pm

Good morning,

Today's isn't really a knee-slapper, but true nonetheless. A good friend of mine is a UPS captain, and it really is funny to compare the subculture of airline operations. There is a lot of commonality, but there are some quirky differences between airlines and types of fllying.

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FLDrifter · Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:33 pm

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Airlines can be a fun business where you pull one string and it affects a bunch of strings somewhere else. And what makes it more fun is that you don't know what's being affected until it's almost a crises.

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FLDrifter · Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:42 pm

Good morning,

As usual, industry events inform and write my stuff and this one is definitely no different. But my favorite part is how the things airlines do is to "make it better for you!"

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FLDrifter · Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:19 pm

Red-eyes can be brutal for flight crews, and reindeer, but they can also be efficient, allow for a little more time at home, and consequently can go pretty senior sometimes. I used to purposely bid them because I could spend most of the day at home, get in a nice nap and then scoot off to work. The earlier ones, when you get in around 5:00, say in Boston, were doable, but the ones landing after the sun rose were, and are brutal. I'm sure Santa's reindeer feel the same way.

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FLDrifter · Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:17 pm

Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season and will be where they would like to be at least at some point during this time. I have Christmas off, but then have to launch on a four day trip, and I'm a commuter, so this cartoon was written from the heart.

Cheers!

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FLDrifter · Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:38 pm

Because Christmas landed on a Sunday, I can squeeze in one more Throwback.

Passing a check ride done by a ball-buster is great, but so is doing one with simply a nice person. Either way, it's nice to get the check ride behind you!

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FLDrifter · Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:19 pm

Hope everyone's Christmas season is going as well as can be expected, especially when considering all the weather that has been sweeping across the US and Canada!

Be safe out there ya'll!

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FLDrifter · Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:59 pm

Good morning,
I've found doing a cartoon for New Year's Day is rather challenging. All the tropes wrapped up with the holiday seem to be tired, and to come up with something original can be challenging. But I still try to rise to the occasion.
Be safe out there everyone!

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FLDrifter · Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:34 pm

Good morning,
Today's cartoon was meant as a friendly nod to another cartoonist who used to put out a cartoon called, "Jetlagged". It was my playful way to nudge her into writing it again, or at the minimum, honor her cartoon. That's it.

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FLDrifter · Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:16 pm

Some cartoons seem more obvious to do than others. It was fun drawing that angle of a smurf sitting in a chair. As a Gen-X. I remember watching the Smurfs after school in the 80's and I have friends who fly for jetBLue, so hey, it's all in good fun!

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FLDrifter · Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:41 pm

About to fly a let to JFK, so I don't have a lot of time to editorialize, so, here's today's!
Be safe out there!

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FLDrifter · Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:54 pm

Sometimes I can probably be too honest, but still, I think this one is funny. PIC, is "Pilot In Command" time, which once upon a time you needed to log in order to get hired by an airline you wanted to spend most of your career with. "Glass" is what it sounds like; flat, glass screens that show digital representations of the flight instruments instead of the analog, round gauges with needles. And "Turbine" is, well, a jet engine, whether the shaft is bolted to propellers or a fan with a shroud around it.

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FLDrifter · Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:02 pm

Good morning,
I know the caption of today's cartoon has probably been said in other ways, but it still makes for a fun one.

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FLDrifter · Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:20 pm

The question of, "just because we can do it, should we?", seems apt in many different arenas of our life regarding technology. The days of sitting in ground school for recurrent and even at some airlines, initial training, have been replaced by computer-based training. In my opinion, it's tedious and doesn't offer the depth of sitting in a class with others who have had various issues arise out on the line which triggers a discussion leaving everyone better professionals for it.

But department budgets inevitably carry the weight of the decision making around these issues.

I'm going to get another cup of coffee now, then sharpen some pencils and find a pen that works.

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FLDrifter · Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:55 pm

Today's cartoon is subtle, but that's ok. The humor is how a little thing can affect what a whole team of people and a lot of capital went into producing, like an airline flight.

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FLDrifter · Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:36 pm

Good morning,
This spark for this cartoon happened just a couple weeks ago. Was taxiing out and hear another regional voice speaking on the frequency with the mumble witch just tickled my sense of humor, which I hope it does for you too.

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FLDrifter · Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:13 pm

Good morning,

Today's was a fun one to draw. It's always neat when you can do a panel that gets you out of your comfort zone and today's cartoon certainly did that.

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FLDrifter · Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:23 pm

It's truly been years since I created a cartoon the day of posting it, but been super busy and time slipped away, so I just knocked this one out! Hope everyone is good out there!

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FLDrifter · Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:54 pm

I had to have my wife take a picture of me sitting at our table holding a 2x4 to get he angles right. A little "slap-stick"!

Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

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FLDrifter · Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:48 am

This one took a long time to put together. I had the concept in mind but I just struggled with the scene and then it stuck me! The private moment of a couple getting ready for bed...

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FLDrifter · Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:38 pm

Good Morning,

Settling into the rhythm of the year now. I've been sitting on this one. Not really a knee slapper but a simple observation I had awhile back that sparks many of my cartoons. Just finished my yearly CQ training. It's amazing how much the attitude and "presence" of the check airmen can affect that crews performance. We're already on pins-and-needles and if a guy has an edge too, well... Good times. We passed so now we can go careen around the sky for another year solving the worlds problems while boring a hole through the sky in the flight levels.

Hope everybody is safe and healthy out there.

It's Monday so...

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FLDrifter · Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:12 pm

Well, sometimes with holiday stuff you have to work within all the tropes, and I'm guilty as charged! Hope everyone is safe out there. I'm on vacation and grateful to be away from the flight level grind for a while.

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FLDrifter · Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:17 pm

Good Morning,

Today's cartoon basically addresses, albeit obliquely, something that dawned on me when all the new contracts for the regional airlines started leaking out a few months ago. It took me and most of my cohort about 12 years to make what a first year FO at a regional airline is now going to make on year one. This is a complex thing for many of us, on one hand, I don't begrudge them for it, because they're finally being paid what we all wanted when I was starting out over twenty years ago. But on the other hand, it's sure stings a little when a "kid" has absolutely no idea the battles most of us fought to get into the front of a decent, well-maintained airplane with a livable wage. God bless 'em.

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FLDrifter · Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:33 pm

Today's cartoon was fun to put together because it's simply another way to have fun with staffing. I always like the CEO office cartoons too, because we only see them in scripted, guarded ways, in meetings, zoom calls, official functions, CNBC, but you know their real conversations behind closed doors would be illuminating too. This is my way to imagine those moments.

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FLDrifter · Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:19 pm

It's always a little funny when the timing of a cartoon is a little early for a holiday, but that's the way it works for todays

Anybody know a good copyright attorney? (ah-hem... that was a joke!)

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FLDrifter · Mon Apr 10, 2023 3:35 pm

Good Morning,
One of my closest friends is Rob. He's in IT and I couldn't resist using his name for this one. I start a 3 day trip tomorrow so I'll see ya'll out there!
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FLDrifter · Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:46 pm

Were definitely getting into the season where those CB clouds are going to dominate the sky! They really do seem to have personalities when you get up close and personal!

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FLDrifter · Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:31 pm

I'm pretty disconnected from interviewing for jobs, but I still think there's a point where you do have to show up in person and fog a mirror. Start a 4 day tomorrow morning, so I'll see ya'll out there in the FL's.

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FLDrifter · Mon May 01, 2023 2:02 pm

Good Morning,

Today's cartoon was based on some of the female pilots I've flown with and some of the things they've had to put up with. Luckily, all of them have been class-acts and have some hilarious stories of dealing with insecure men and social stereotypes forced upon them. Anyway, they've had to deal with stuff that I never had too and luckily most of them have a great sense of humor about it!

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FLDrifter · Mon May 08, 2023 4:28 pm

This was a low-hanging-fruit one. I didn't do any search to see if this one had already been done, and yes, there's an "Airlines Movie" quality to it, but oh well. I think it's worth a light chortle.

Start a three day tomorrow, so I'll see ya'll out there.

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FLDrifter · Mon May 15, 2023 2:38 pm

Good Morning,

This cartoon pretty much wrote itself when I had this exact situation happen to me. Just one of my classic ones where I simply flip a situation on its head.

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FLDrifter · Mon May 22, 2023 4:29 pm

So I'm a tick over 20 years in the industry flying 121. I still don't think I have the bona fides to claim old timer, but jeez the industry has evolved into a place that is simply shocking.

Today's cartoon pokes at that a little. Starting a 2 day. See ya'll out there!

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casinterest · Mon May 22, 2023 5:26 pm

FLDrifter wrote:
So I'm a tick over 20 years in the industry flying 121. I still don't think I have the bona fides to claim old timer, but jeez the industry has evolved into a place that is simply shocking.

Today's cartoon pokes at that a little. Starting a 2 day. See ya'll out there!

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Starting to remind me of the tech boom days.
We used to think that you could get hired by spelling coder.

FLDrifter · Mon May 29, 2023 1:55 pm

There's a long line and probably multiple generations of us who sure, wanted to make some money, but also truly loved flying airplanes. Now, with the current chapter in our industry it appears that other motivations could be at play. I feel bad for those people.

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FLDrifter · Mon Jun 05, 2023 5:48 pm

Good morning! Or afternoon, whatever. Had a super early report today and didn't get my act together last night to get it out properly. Been a while since I did that. Usually, my system is down better than this.
Sometimes I kind of recycle old sayings of pithy quotes. Guilty.
See you out there, 2 of 4 is in the books.
-GK

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FLDrifter · Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:52 pm

June schedule is different, hence why I'm a tick late today folks. Day 2 of 4. Girls off for summer break so I can have trips touch weekends which normally is heretical in our home.
This one is definitely inside baseball for our tribe, but it's one that's been needing to be done for a long time. So here it is.
Cheers,

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FLDrifter · Mon Jun 19, 2023 5:27 pm

This month's schedule is such a drag. These early report times can wear you down. So today's cartoon is a little later than usual. I feel it's timely with all the hand wringing regarding the growing sentience of computers.

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SQ22 · Mon Jun 19, 2023 6:02 pm

FLDrifter wrote:
This month's schedule is such a drag. These early report times can wear you down. So today's cartoon is a little later than usual. I feel it's timely with all the hand wringing regarding the growing sentience of computers.

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As always thanks for the entertainment. :smile:

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