• Touched down at General Mitchell Airport at 21:25 local time after a whole lot of air-time.
• Not as bad as a 16 hour trip by car, but a lot less to keep me from thinking about what I was missing.
• I really should start bringing books on my flight, but I always convince myself I'll do something really productive if I just bring a notebook and a pen. Silly me. Tom Clancy and Stephen King probably write their novels with nothing but porcelean office chairs and Wisconsin-bound planes in mind.
• Thought this weekend would be a lot worse for air travel than it was. Steve drove me to the airport from his place at 4:20, we got there around 4:50 and I was through the security gate two minutes after I walked in the door.
• I think it helped that I had my military boots completely untied until I got off the plane in Pittsburgh. Since they have about a million metal lace holes, and I got yelled at for wearing big shoes the last time, I thought it would be best.
• That and the fact that nobody was in line.
• What's the matter, folks. Doesn't anyone go see their families for Easter?
• Oh well, thanks to everybody for not travelling this weekend. Made my trip a little easier.
• The woman just said "Have a nice trip" after I walked through the metal detector without a peep and my carry-ons dropped off the belt. If I had known about all the extra time I would have, I should have thrown my handcuffs into my luggage. Oh well, hopefully they'll get good use this weekend anyhow.
• It's just a little more than an hour after touchdown and I'm already sitting in a computer lab in the EMS building on the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus next to Suz. I knew it wouldn't be too long before I got to another high speed Internet connection.
• Life is great.
• In a little less than twelve hours from now, Cindy has her first race in in over five months at Bucknell. She'll be doing the 3000M steeplechase after a bunch of stress injuries have kept her off the field for a while.
• It's a good thing too. You never heard such whining as my sister when she's benched. Apparently her life goal is to become a perpetum mobile. And more power to her, damn it.
• Had a long list of things that ticked me off on my trip, but I wrote them down in my journal which is still outside in the car, but now that I can look over to see Suz's lovely smile a few feet away, they don't seem that important anymore.
• Although the life-sized man and woman icons next to the bathrooms still freak me out every time I'm at BWI. That will never change.
• It's good to be back here.

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