Some FFN Summit Day One Highlights

[Hell Puppy]

So we hit the airport a couple or three hours prior to flight time, and it was a good thing. Travelling between Thanksgiving and New Years always sucks. And the security line at Hartsfield (I refuse to call it Hartsfield-Jackson) was out thru the Atrium.

For those of you who do not know the Atlanta airport, that's a medium long line. Worst I've ever seen it is wrapped around back down past baggage claim well into each terminal.

We get to the front of the line, let the obligatory half blind TSA agent check docs and ID and then get in a really short line to get bags screened. Nope, some other TSA nightmare walks up and decides to exercise their author-i-tie by making us go around to the T-gates line to get screened since she hadn't seen that move in a while. Now had she walked her lazy ass over and looked she'd see it wasn't moving as it should because they had only one line open and it was at a snails pace. But no, instead she thinks adding more people to it will move it.

I'm still pondering the logic for that one.

Now you'd think all of this big fancy new signs and the 3-1-1 campaign would be enough to let even the most dimwitted of individuals know you can only have liquids in 3 ounce containers and must be able to fit them all in a one-quart ziplock bag. But no, they act as though they've never heard of this as the TSA agent is throwing their drawers everywhere to get to that deadline 3.5 ounce container of vagisil.

With a jacket, carry on and a very overpacked computer bag which they insisted upon having me pull out computers and cameras from, I made it thru without a full cavity search. But I nearly had to bitch slap someone for throwing the container with my gear in it around like it was a sack of potatoes.

10 minutes later I finally have my batman utility belt all re-equipped with my phones, my keys are back where they belong and I've managed to shoe horn all my gear back in place.

All told about an hour from parking til we finally got to the crown room to have the FFN breakfast of champions....