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bktheirregular) wrote2008-04-03 03:35 pm
bktheirregular) wrote2008-04-03 03:35 pm
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Starting gate
Got to the airport early, figuring that security would be like the Venus de Milo (a stone bitch, in other words); instead, I passed through in ten minutes with three hours to spare before takeoff.
Bright side: I cashed in some frequent flyer miles. First class lounge is nice, and has free wifi, so I can maintain my connection to the information superhighway until it's time to board.
(One surprising thing: nobody even bothered to look at my backpack or my laptop messenger bag, even though I'm carrying two laptops with me this time (my boss asked me to bring her a MacBook Pro; I'm guessing it's scads more expensive to buy an Apple computer in Greece).)
(Then again, I was holding a first-class ticket, and dressed in my best suit, so maybe the TSA people were afraid I knew a Congressman.)
(Or maybe they were afraid I was a Congressman.)
Next update from Athens, Greece.
Oh, yeah: when my mother flew back from Athens yesterday, she was in the same row as a rather corpulent gentleman who had some definite opinions on the recent strikes in Greece. His opinion was that the country had been better off under Papadopoulos, strong-man of the colonels who ran Greece after a coup in the Sixties. (This can be compared to the oft-noted praise of Benito Mussolini that he got the trains to run on time.) The only thing Papadopoulos did wrong, the (ahem) gentleman opined, was to not kill off the people opposed to his continued rule.
Be eternally vigilant, folks.
While, at the same time, being excellent to one another.
Bright side: I cashed in some frequent flyer miles. First class lounge is nice, and has free wifi, so I can maintain my connection to the information superhighway until it's time to board.
(One surprising thing: nobody even bothered to look at my backpack or my laptop messenger bag, even though I'm carrying two laptops with me this time (my boss asked me to bring her a MacBook Pro; I'm guessing it's scads more expensive to buy an Apple computer in Greece).)
(Then again, I was holding a first-class ticket, and dressed in my best suit, so maybe the TSA people were afraid I knew a Congressman.)
(Or maybe they were afraid I was a Congressman.)
Next update from Athens, Greece.
Oh, yeah: when my mother flew back from Athens yesterday, she was in the same row as a rather corpulent gentleman who had some definite opinions on the recent strikes in Greece. His opinion was that the country had been better off under Papadopoulos, strong-man of the colonels who ran Greece after a coup in the Sixties. (This can be compared to the oft-noted praise of Benito Mussolini that he got the trains to run on time.) The only thing Papadopoulos did wrong, the (ahem) gentleman opined, was to not kill off the people opposed to his continued rule.
Be eternally vigilant, folks.
While, at the same time, being excellent to one another.
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