Leavin' on a Jet Plane Blog

As mentioned in our maiden post, one of my likes is gambling. This desire was primarily cultivated when I made my first trip to the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas.

This was the view out of my hotel room, only less pixelated.

If you haven't been there, I'm sure you have heard the stories of all the lavish hotels and immaculate sights that line the strip. For me, the most breathtaking and unique sight was the fountains at Bellagio.

Sadly, they were too far away to assist in the Monte Carlo fire.

At night, they are remarkable. They sync the fountains to lights, which as a whole are synced to the music. Forget remarkable, its disguisting good. Anywho, one of the songs I first heard was "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie Titanic.

No deal.

That was nothing but an undercard for the main event. Three songs, fourteen Mexicans trying to sell me strippers, and 302 Asians taking pictures later, "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli (and maybe Sarah Brightman) was played. I'm not an opera fan at all, but if you know the song, you know how intriguing and catchy it is. Sources tell WRKB that our own correspondant Bob Ridgewood has been humming it on a semi-daily basis. In response, Bob released this statement:

Interesting Bob.

I fell in love with this song, much in the same vein as I fell in love with Super Mario Galaxy a few months ago. But look, I'm not gonna write this blog a love song, because it didn't ask for it, and it doesn't need one, you see?

Deal.

Sorry, I've digressed. As for "Time to Say Goodbye", I don't exactly know the complete background of the song, but I know its primarily sung in Italian. Much like my trombone, my Italian is rusty. So I will care just to focus on just the name of the song itself.
Here's where I start to care. This previous summer, a certain co-worker of ours here at WRKB made a decision to quit her job, and move back to her homestate of Texas. We at WRKB headquarters truly wished her the best in her future endeavours. We didn't know when exactly she was leaving, but we figured it would have been within a week or two. Infact, yours truly was tossing around the idea or a going away party. We hadn't heard from her in about a week, and we assumed that she was going to let us know when she was leaving. One week turned into two, which turned into a month. We we're pretty sure she left town already.

Leaving Town was an underrated song.

Every Friday, WRKB in Rochester will be handing out a douchebag award. This week's douchebag award goes to this girl. She left town without ever saying goodbye to any of us. If she's reading this now, this is our goodbye. It was simply a situation that left us fairly bummed out.

Not as bummed out as this guy.

Final Thought: Man up. If you invest any amount of time in a place where you forge any semblance of friendship, you owe it to yourself and those around you to bid farewell. If you don't, you'll probably be the butt-end of every joke at WRKB. That's what she said.