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Uneventful flight home from SLC to SJC this evening. Am very very sleepy. Going to bed shortly. Mostly just wanted to note that I made it home safe and sound, thanks in part to Kam having gone way beyond the call of duty to pick me up at the airport and take me home—particularly beyond call of duty because the airport people decided for some incomprehensible reason to disallow turns from the main road inside the airport onto the main road that exits the airport. There were no signs or any other indication of why they were doing this or what they expected people to use as an alternate route. They simply had cops standing in the road waving colored flashlights, forcing all cars coming from one terminal to go to long-term parking (a dead end), and all cars coming from the other terminal (plus cars like us who went all the way to long-term parking and turned around) to continue on all the way around the airport to the only other exit. This boneheaded system added a minimum of 20 minutes to the process of leaving the airport, probably longer when you factor in the significant extra distance we had to travel to get to the correct freeway by a roundabout route. It may've taken us 45 minutes to get here from the airport, normally a 15-minute drive.
I feel sorry for the cops who have to implement SJC's procedures, but I get really mad at the people who put those procedures in place. Grr.
Oh, well. At least some things aren't as bad as they could be at SJC. The cabbie in SLC told me that they've instituted full-car searches for every car that tries to park in the SLC parking lots, and that the airlines recommend arriving at the airport two hours earlier than you normally would (i.e., up to four hours before your flight) if you intend to park there.
Okay, enough on airports. Tomorrow: lots and lots of magazine work. Editing, reading submissions, revising schedule, parceling out tasks, figuring out what needs to be done that I haven't been getting done lately. Tonight: sleep.
Thanks again, Kam!
(And of course thanks to Mary Anne for putting me up for a week. A good visit.)