At Schipol in Amsterdam, they opened my bag and went through it carefully and then x-rayed it and then sat down an interviewed me. They were doing that with everyone, but they were such cute, polite, earnest Dutch fellows that I found it adorable rather than irritating.

Hi. Beautiful morning today in the Bay Area after a messy, sloppy and wet early evening.

Maybe so, Robin. Mom says she looks subversive too.

I realised after I got home that I'd left my dissection kit in my carry-on bag last time I flew home. Didn't even get a look.

My mother was bringing something like this [link] to us as a gift for mr. flea and they made her unwrap the present, open the box and play with it to prove it wasn't harmful. At a table far away from the other people.

I have also had security people unwrap a jar of honey I was carrying it and shine a flashlight into it to make sure nothing was lurking. And this was in Greece!

I find the inconsistency to be the most annoying thing, myself. That and the struggle with coats and shoes and a stroller and carry-ons and a child who is now capable of escaping if she chooses.

Anyone know how to do a reverse phone number lookup on Google? (there's a special command/switch you use with the phone number).

eta: Oh, you just have to enter it in phone-number format - eg: (312) 555-1212.

If you don't figure it out, you can do a reverse lookup on anywho.com.

I googled and figured it out (see edit). But thanks.

I don't get a reverse lookup or anything special with that, Tommy. Just a google of the numbers.

tommyrot, I've done it by just entering the phone # as xxx-xxx-xxxx

flea, were they afraid she was going to make an exploding geodesic dome? Anyway, what an incredibly cool toy (esp. for mr flea)!