Please wish me luck.  We're headed to the airport tomorrow for a short trip to cool country.  To those of you not living in south Texas, that's any destination northward.  The problem is, we're flying.  That means TSA.  We're travelers who normally do carry on ONLY!  (Sorry, Major Dad.) 

This trip, I'll have to actually carry my laptop, rather than hook it on to my rolling piece of luggage which will be checked.  Now you have to understand this not your tiny, friendly-sized laptop.  Hubby thought I'd enjoy the absolute largest screen you could get, when he bought it for me.  Actually, he was thinking "Hey, if we're watching a movie on a trip, I can actually see it, too!" 

While I am writing this, Glenn Beck's program on Headline News is on TV.  They just flashed a picture of the shoe-bomber Reid. 



I would never have suspected this goofy looking critter, had I been a TSA employee, so I cannot really speak to the issue of "profiling".  Except for one teensy tiny little qualification.  Have we ever had even one single 5' bottle-blonde (I refuse to go grey!) nearly 60 year old female with all of the attendant wrinkles, convicted of, suspected of, or proven to be an Islamofacist potential suicide bomber?  Yet I will look forward to being singled out, as is usual with a laptop, for "extra special treatment". 

So please wish me luck.