Smoking is permitted in designated areas only.

Ummmm...Vortex...If, ummm, well, you know, you haven't, I mean, finalized the list? I'd...like to go to dinner, too. If that's ok...

Sorry I didn't respond before. I was....I'm sorry.

I don't miss flying in and out of Kentucky Cincinnati.

I don't mind it myself, though they almost didn't let me leave. The expiry date on my PA licence has worn away, and they were reluctant to accept it as ID. All my flights in the US thereafter, I took my passport. Just in case.

Hear ye, hear ye! beathen and Kalshane, I hope one of you checks this tonight, but in the event that you don't, it's technically okay since we're just going off the contingency plan anyway. Come here at 2 as planned.

The expiry date on my PA licence has worn away, and they were reluctant to accept it as ID.

Right, cause you're not guaranteed to still be the same person if your license has expired.

All my flights in the US thereafter, I took my passport. Just in case.

Well, the running joke with Cincy/Northern Kentucky is that you need a passport to get from one to the other anyway.

Well, I know that Terminal One at O'Hare has a lightshow. This doesn't mean that Detroit doesn't.

Detroit also has a really cool fountain that squirts water arcs. A mini version of a Vegas fountain.

Hear ye, hear ye! beathen and Kalshane, I hope one of you checks this tonight, but in the event that you don't, it's technically okay since we're just going off the contingency plan anyway. Come here at 2 as planned.

Then why did you say anything? Was there an original plan I should be aware of?

Mind the gap.

Umm. Isn't that more for the subway?

they've taken my carryon for the test where they run a piece of gauze over the zipper pulls with a pair of tongs and then run the gauze through some machine. I've been told that this is testing for either explosive or drug residue. (Different people I've asked about this have given me different answers.) I've never had this happen at any other airport, and I've never seen them test anyone else's luggage.

I can't believe that Lee and Sean haven't spoken up to mock me yet.

When we were in San Fran for the Nilly tour and were about to fly from Oakland to LA again, they very patiently waited for me as I:

• got tagged to get my bag hand-searched before being checked
• got the little swabby test
• set off the little swabby test ALARM, which caused them to then unpack my entire bag while I watched (and don't think I wasn't grateful that I didn't do the um...exotic San Fran shopping I'd considered)
• watched as they repacked my bag, badly
• finally got cleared me to go through security
• set off the security alarms and had to be searched
• sheepishly finally cleared security and then ended up boarding my plane before they did, even though their plane was scheduled to leave first

I had issues.

Some lotions can set off the swabby test. Glycerin, I think.

They told me it might be any type of powdery substance. I barely managed to avoid calling the Lush products in my suitcase "bombs".