
This is a test knish. Rather, test knish-es.
It worked. Yay! The app is functioning again.
Since I am here, I’m write this at JFK in the lounge waiting to board and to be bored (I hope).
I was apprehensive about the security lines today, since yesterday was a zoo with the shut down and the closure of LGA. The online time estimators of the wait were helpful in making the move to the airport. I also learned that you can reserve a time slot for the security check. Interesting.
As it turned out, the waiting line wasn’t bad. However, I got random flagged. Then I think the agent arbitrarily picked on my shoes (I’m pre-check, etc.). They had to go through the scanner separately. Then the guy at the x-ray flagged by backpack for hand check and re-scan three times. Even the agent at the end of the line was puzzled. I was seriously irritating at the end. Anyway, I made it through.
Lounge. Behold the blazing internet!

Think of all that I can accomplish.
It isn’t often that you see upload as the faster of the two.
Meanwhile, I spotted this aircraft… the team plane wouldn’t be quite this obvious, would it?

The lounge food isn’t awful.

The airplane in the background won’t be mine, but that’s the gate.

So, I can do some chess puzzles and write a few emails, maybe make a call or two.
And, yes, I know, the polling plugin is still broken.
UPDATE
ONBOARD now to be bored. The last thing you want is an exciting flight.
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UPDATE 
UPDATE
A new feature


Must try to get some shut eye.






















The whole TSA thing is particularly annoying when it is the Democrats refusing to fund DHS because they want to get rid of immigration enforcement. As a result the TSA folks are working without pay. Perhaps there should be a law that if any part of the government is unfunded so that employees have to work without pay, then Congress loses its pay and perks for the duration. That might speed up a solution.
Have a safe and uneventful trip Father!
Safe travels! I’m looking forward to your posts from Rome.
Benvenuti in Italia e Roma!