Entries by Michael Harrison

I've been on a Sangria kick ever since going to El Cerro in Orlando and Susan and I made it out to Cafe Malaga in McKinney for lunch on Saturday.

It wasn't be best experience we've had there but the company was good and while the Sangria was bloody expensive, it was tasty.

Unfortunately the ladies who have been running the cafe every other time we've been in were nowhere to be found and they'd left it in the hands of the men. This was a mistake. Not a fatal one, but not a good one either. I'll admit that I generally have a bias against waiters as they typically aren't as service oriented as women. This time was no exception.

So, what the H**l have I been up to since my last post?

Workin' my ass off.

I was at a customer site from the 11th through the 29th (and flying back on the 30th) with no real time to blog or really anything more interesting to share than status on the work I was doing. Since I don't blog about work, that didn't leave me with anything.

On the other hand, the frogs in Orlando are cool and make a neat noise.

Here's what they sounded like when I got back to my hotel on the second night.

Day2Froggies.wma

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Alright.

A little over a week ago I flew from DFW to Phoenix and on the way through the security line at DFW the dude at the flashlight kiosk (you know, the guy who shines the UV light at your license expecting to find nothing in particular) made a point of telling people that they didn't need to take their liquids out of their carry-on bags to run through the scanner.

Silly me, I'd already done that and had my baggie of contraband already in my laptop bag where it's easy to throw into the grey bin.

No big deal, at least I could leave it there.

I made a point of not assuming the Phoenix security would behave the same and had the baggie out when going back to DFW and as expected they didn't mention being able to leave it in my carry-on bag.

On the other hand, I had to head out to Orlando this morning and since I was leaving out of the same damn terminal as when I was going to Phoenix I thought I'd be able to leave my baggie in my carry-on.

Nooooo.

There was a TSA guy wandering up and down the line reminding all the Mickey-heads that they had to take their liquids out and put them in the bin.

Make up your damn minds!

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Can someone help me get this relit?

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So I'm on my way to Mesa, AZ and the flight starts out delayed an hour but at least I'm rewarded by a pretty sunset that lasts a looong time because we're headed West.

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