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Home in Cleveland now. Flight was uneventful, which is nice, but also boring. At least if everything is going wrong you have something at which to focus your energy. Not today. Each flight took off and landed when it was scheduled. I brought enough food so that I was not hungry through the six-hour trip. Got my luggage back just fine. I had quiet seat-mates on each flight.

Really, nothing at all to complain about.

I did find it interesting (and a little frightening) that the nice people at airport security felt it necessary to open up my flatbed scanner (brought it home to digitize another batch of old family photos) but they never batted an eye at the swiss army knife I had neglected to remove from my carry-on bag. And the worst part is that I think I got through security with it last time, as well. Hmmm. I probably shouldn't be ranting about it, but I did find it a little disconcerting.

And I did forget to bring some mind-numbing reading material, which was a very big mistake, as I was forced to spend way too much time flipping through the Skymall catalog during my flight. Speaking of which, doesn't that catalog make you wish you had a rich aunt or uncle who was always traveling, and the only way they could get you a birthday gift was by shopping for all that cool stuff? And then UPS would arrive at your door the morning of your birthday with a radio-controlled blimp or an inflatable hockey rink for the backyard or six pounds of fresh Maine lobster . . .

Gandhi says that we should "be the change we want to see in the world," so maybe I should just strive to become that rich traveling uncle. Of course, I would need a niece or nephew before that can happen . . .

But I digress.

Mom and Dad took me out to dinner and we caught up on stuff. Then Dad took me out to his new office where they had a computer meltdown yesterday. Windows XP dropped some silly dll file, and they don't have the CDs that came with the computer, so we're trying to find a way around it. I hate Windows.

And then, when we got back home, I set up my laptop in the home office, plugged into their DSL router and plugged in my iSight camera. Corey got us a pair of these last year so that we could video-chat when we were apart, and this is really our first opportunity to use them at a distance. Wow, that was cool. Just like Star Trek. I brought Mom and Dad in, and the four of us all had a little chat right there. Very cool.

And that's about all that happened today. Taking another whack at Windows XP tomorrow morning, then out shopping with Mom in the afternoon. And poker with Brian and his friends later on . . .

Posted: Thu - June 3, 2004 at 09:09 PM

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