Anyone have experience taking a CPAP machine through security/customs?

I have taken my CPAP to Vegas twice, and security has never mentioned it. I put it in my suitcase with the hose and facemask and send it all through the X-ray.

I took this morning off to go deal with the bank, and less than a block from my place the Alternator light came on and the battery charging indicator started sinking. Fortunately, the route I was taking went past my car repair place, so I pulled in there. Seems my alternator was completely gone, and the techs praised my observation skills in getting that dealt with before I was stranded somewhere. Also, the alternator was still under warranty, so all I had to pay for was labor. Apparently after-market alternators are only good for a couple of years. Yay.

Still, that took all morning, so I didn't get to the bank until I should have been back at work for the afternoon shift, so I called in and said I was having to take the day. After all that, the person at the bank was the same man I saw on Saturday, and once I mentioned the check and the deposit discrepancy, he said, "Oh, yes, I saw that, and I fixed that." He showed me the revised deposits, but that still seems like something he might have called about. I think they have my phone number.

Strictly speaking, I could have gone to work anyway, but since I had the time I went to my pharmacy to get some refills. At the pharmacy desk there in the supermarket, something odd on the nearby condom/pregnancy test shelf caught my eye. Little vibrators. Trojan now makes vibrators. I can buy vibrators at the supermarket in one of the more conservative towns in Utah. Though I think I would take that through the self-checkout line.

Food stuck in your teeth? This narwhal will help!

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That sounds like a highly effective day, Connie!

That narwhal is adorable.

Please, for the love of god, make science majors take writing courses. And research& analysis skills are research& analysis skills, no matter the topic ( and if an unfamiliar topic, keeps you from using your field as a crutch.)

(Yeah, I got a physics and polisci double, but that damn art history requirement stretched my rhetoric game & certainly gave me more feminist powder.and it wasn't even a feminist oriented class.)

Flight home attempt #2. I am SO ready to be a hermit. The last two days at my dad's have been stressful. The meds thing, the lack of privacy thing, the wanting MY bed thing, missing my coworkers, my shower, my car...I am beyond cranky.

Please, for the love of god, make science majors take writing courses.

See also: Engineers

Yes.

I had to scan /read every goddamned paper published on Hubble data from 1990 until...2000? 2003? Can't quite recall. Anyway, gave me so much damned judginess. Astro is damned small, and I'm sure I've given authors stinkeyes in person.

Please, for the love of god, make science majors take writing courses.

See also: Engineers

God yes.

signed,
Hapless Editor

Is anyone suggesting to this friend that she might look at local community colleges for cheaper ways to get the credits, or at least the lower-division stuff?

Yes, at least that was suggested. I tried to point out that if she only wanted to train for a job there are trade schools. If she wants a university degree it means a well rounded education. I think in a few years she will understand why it was important.

Another editor co-signing the plea for engineers and scientists to take writing courses.