The TSA is really working hard to keep us safe and secure when traveling… I checked around just now because of rumors of a security breech at Laguardia Airport in the Delta terminal, and found my way to the Transportation Security Administration’s “security checkpoint wait times” site. They’re so tightly wired, they’re warning about delays for the Fourth of July weekend. Now that’s thinking ahead. TSA | Transportation Security Administration | Wait Times Due to the increased passenger traffic expected at airports over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, you may encounter wait times at the security checkpoints that are…
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CNN.com – Baseball-sized hail smashes Oklahoma – Mar 9, 2006 Oh, yeah. There’s a severe weather warning for much of the Southeast, plus Air Force One’s passenger is screwing up air traffic for the world’s busiest airport, and here in Chicago, the second busiest, we’ve got heavy fog and really poor visibility. Just got off the line with a lady affected by some kind of flight cancellation – probably related to the weather, but she was supposed to go via Atlanta, and that’s all messed up. So she gets to spend the night in a hotel I reserved for her,…
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News4Jax.com – News 4 Georgia – President Bush Visits Atlanta Today Just heard from a client of mine, who I think of as a loveable PITA, that Bush is visiting Atlanta today for about 2 hours, and that he’d heard the highways would be closed or at least jammed. It’s for a political fundraiser – $1000.00 a plate. You can bet that’s the real reason he’s flying around the Gulf Coast area this week “inspecting recovery efforts” – pressing the flesh for his faithful (but increasingly fractious) minions.
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Via: Flickr Title: Taxi home By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 11.43am PST It doesn’t look like much of anything, but this is the taxi that brought us home this morning. Neither of us slept on the flight(s) back but we’re going to try to stay awake until a decent bedtime. This will be harderr for me than for David, because he’s got an appointment this afternoon that will keep him going for a while afterward. We’ve both had a fair amount of coffee and we’ll see how long we manage to hold out. Meanwhile, we have a VERY…
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Via: Flickr Title: Scrimshaw By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 5.28am PST This was part of an exhibit at San Francisco International that was along the moving walkways in the terminal. Years ago, when I had to go via SFO from Eugene to Salt Lake on trips home from college, I remember seeing exhibits in pretty much the same kind of cases. Some things don’t change. Last night David and I went looking for a sit-down restaurant – our parlance for table service – and I remembered a place called the “Crab Pot.” Well, that wasn’t there, but Yankee…
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Via: Flickr Title: Sfo By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 4.47am PST If you look closely, you may see that the decoration on the table is a nautical chart of San Francisco Bay. Which makes sense for a seafood restaurant at SFO International. The food is really good, surprisingly good for airport fare, and not that expensive. They seemed to have a good wine list. The waiter, like so many of our waiters in Maui, was not originally from this country. His service was impeccable. And from the outside, it looks like a pretty ordinary little airport bistro.
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Via: Flickr Title: Aloha maui By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Mar ’06, 7.44pm PST View from our hotel room at the Maui Prince, where we spent the last two days of our vacation. Interesting property. It’s currently enmeshed in some kind of ownership brou-ha-ha between heirs of the Seibu family, and the Seibu corporation. It was designed to cater to Japanese visitors to Hawaii, but the clientele is now pretty much like that of any large beach/golf resort on Maui. The grounds were pretty, the beach is nice, and we ran short of time and didn’t have a chance to…
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Via: Flickr Title: Molokini By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Mar ’06, 7.05pm PST Took an early morning snorkel trip out here with Pacific Whale Foundation – not a bad day out, except it was a little “blowy” for me. Howeverr, I saw an eel, while David did not.
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Via: Flickr Title: Haleakala By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Mar ’06, 5.32pm PST
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I had a couple of days of head-scratching, then rising panic. I’ve been using a registered copy of ecto for Windows and had found this thread on their support forum that seemed to address the problem. So I duly followed the instructions, which were a little bit scary – basically, I had to edit a config file. Great, fine, but it didn’t fix the problem. I mentioned it to the Geek in Residence, my husband David. And he mentioned that a couple of other programs exhibit the same annoying behavior, and then with a click or two, there was ecto.…