Hubs and I got rescreened in Philadelphia. Not fun after a trans-Atlantic flight, when we thought we might be running late for our connecting flight to DCA. Which turned out to be a prop plane. Which had to do all sorts of holding patterns because something or other was going on in the DC area.

I like international flights into and out of IAD. But I've never had to connect there, so I can't speak to that.

All the glass bowl talk is cracking me up, since that's the euphemism Carolyn Hax uses for asshole, in her chats.

I know, meara! It's making me laugh, too.

WOULD THEY MAKE UP THEIR GODDAMNED MINDS PLEASE?

Apparently no.

-t, yes that is the dumb part, but what's also dumb is that one goes through customs at the port of first entry in the U.S., which necessitates shenanigans like this.

Yeah, my non-US coworker didn't make it onto our connecting flight because there wasn't enough time to go through customs, get your luggage, etc., for a non-US citizen You'd think the travel agent would have accounted for that?

Argh, people keep making me work. It's Friday afternoon, for Pete's sake!

I really want to go home and eat Pumpkin Spice Pumpkin Seeds and see if I get incepted into becoming a Dune-style Navigator, but I don't think my new crown is up to that much crunchiness.

Shrift and I got rescreened in Panama connecting back from Ecuador, when we literally went from arrival gate to the gate 50 feet away. Which was a giant PITA because of liquor bought at duty free in Quito that suddenly couldn't reboard with us.

In Heathrow I had to go through immigration control because I was changing terminals on my way to Ireland. I was a little incredulous the whole time. "I have to fill out this form?" "You're stamping my passport?" So last year when I flew from Dublin into Heathrow, I was so confused when I didn't have to go through customs/immigration at all.

Look, you're not going to do worse with the wedding gifts than the incredibly racist mammy cookie jar we received, so...

Timelies all!

I don't think we got anything particularly terrible as a wedding gift. Pointless, maybe(who needs a Lenox china menorah?), but not terrible. The bowl sounds nice.

mammy cookie jar

WUT.

I feel like I've heard this story before and then blocked it out.

oh dear, Liese!

Burrell, I think it was you that recommended TJ's Greens Beans & Grains? I'm trying it for lunch today - nom!

Yes it was me, glad you like it too. Very much my kind of comfort food.

Speaking of comfort food, the former cream puff shop up at the corner is now a tonkatsu-style noodle shop. So much yum! And walking distance too. This could be significantly more dangerous than the cream puffs were.