WOOHOO!

[jcalanthe]

I was sitting in the airport feeling extremely grumpy that our flight keeps getting freaking delayed when I decided to check for free interweb access. I discovered that indeed I do have free 'net, and checked my email to discover that I won a Dreamwidth account! I'm so excited to be here, I can't even tell you. It's kept me entertained for nearly an hour already with configuration, and I'm far less grumpy. So thanks, denise, for drawing me out of the OpenID users with validated emails & vastly improving my day!

Comments

[From: sara]

Oh, San Jose. They searched me for drugs last time I was there (I think it was my Green Party button that did it -- this was back during that brief moment when the Greens looked sub-nutso, which tells you how long ago that was.) It was mildly hilarious because box wine is about as illicit as I ever get.

[From: jcalanthe]

Wow, yea, you're not the first person I'd think of wrt drugs... ;) Must have been quite a while ago, cuz I've been a Green for a while & don't think of them as all that nutso (any more than anyone else in politics who likes to discuss things ad nauseum that is).

Security in both directions was actually fine (though in SJ they did scold me for standing 2 bags up in one bin rather than placing them flat in separate bins). Just US Airways' complete incompetence at scheduling. First & last trip with them, let me tell you.

[From: sara]

I am...well, I'm not pure as the driven snow, but yeah, I'm really not the person you should be searching for drugs.

I concur with a lot of the party's positions, but I became convinced during the last decade that it would be more productive to push the Democrats left than it would be to advocate for a third party. *shrug* Which isn't anything but a compromise position, but oh well. Also, I got tired of crap like being double-plus searched at airports, and I know that I wasn't the only party member that happened to. After I had kids, my tolerance for dealing with random totalitarian stuff for the sake of political resistance declined a lot. I was flying to and fro with Herself and I was afraid that if I got detained for my political party membership that they'd separate us, which would have been dreadful.

Trains! I likes them!

[From: jmtorres]

The internet says you should be leaving in about ten minutes so hopefully you won't even get this comment until you arrive... *knocks on wood that you haven't been delayed again*

[From: jcalanthe]

We did finally leave! & then ZOMG, no one told me it was NASCAR Weekend (I'd never even heard of that before) - getting to the rental car place took forever cuz there were a zillion people, and then the lines to get our car were beyond belief. & then I managed to take us to the wrong address - it was truly a comedy of errors. Sorry we missed you this trip - next time hopefully I can carve out a bit more time (or at least fly on a different airline!). Hope the paper got done!

[From: jmtorres]

I am still procrastinating about writing it as we speak! Damn paper!

*hugs*

[From: copracat]

Hope your flight is gone and you on it! Safe travels.

[From: jcalanthe]

Thank you! I'm sure your hopes helped - without them we might still be in Phoenix now trying to get out. Happily it was a wonderful trip aside from the travel to & from.

[From: jae]

Hi! Welcome.

-J

[From: jcalanthe]

Thank you! Congrats on getting your name here!

[From: jae]

I am thrilled about that.

-J

[From: oursin]

Lovely to see you here, and hope you are no longer still waiting for flight!

[From: jcalanthe]

Thank you, it's lovely to see you as well! I guess everyone I know is involved in testing DW since you're all here already.

We did indeed manage to get to & from Phoenix, despite their best efforts. I'm sure your hopes helped! ;)

[From: cedara]

Hey, you! :-D

[From: jcalanthe]

Hey! I'm amazed - it turns out almost everyone I know already had a DW account by the time I got here!