{"id":8666,"date":"2010-12-29T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/8666\/airport-food-tsa-windows-7-tour-djoko-holiday-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:03:48","slug":"airport-food-tsa-windows-7-tour-djoko-holiday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/8666\/airport-food-tsa-windows-7-tour-djoko-holiday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Food, the TSA and Windows 7: Tour d’Joko- Holiday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually, food tastes better when you overpay for it.\u00a0 When you go to a sporting event, for example, those $10 sausages taste\u00a0 incredible!\u00a0 Popcorn at the movie theatre taste far better than anything one could make at home, and its not just because of that unknown oily stuff they call butter either.\u00a0 It\u2019s psychological.\u00a0 We\u2019re literally invested in a perception that these consumables should taste better because we\u2019re paying a premium for them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019ve found an exception to that phenomenon, however.\u00a0 Airport food.\u00a0 I spent most of last Wednesday and this past Monday traveling;\u00a0 I kinda had to eat airport food.\u00a0 The Cinnabons, Wendy\u2019s Double with Cheese and Chicken McNuggets at the SeaTac and LAX airports do not taste any better than they would at any of their regular establishments, despite a +20% premium for being in an airport.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere in all that consuming on my way to Southern California, I managed to do something that would worry me the entire week I spent down south:\u00a0 I lost my ID.\u00a0 The TSA guys were interested in something in my carryon at SeaTac (jars of homemade hot cocoa mix), asked my to open up my luggage and requested my ID.\u00a0 After passing their inspection, I remember putting my ID in my back pocket (instead of back in my wallet).\u00a0 I later put the book I was reading in that same pocket.\u00a0 I figure when I pulled the book out to read, the ID must\u2019ve gone flying.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, I wasn\u2019t all THAT concerned getting back on the plane; I had a student ID, the credit card I used to buy the tickets and an old (but still valid) paper copy of my Washington ID.\u00a0 In San Diego, on my way back, they looked at these items and asked me if I also had some mail with me\u2026 like people take mail on vacation\u2026\u00a0 As I am home, as you can tell, they let me on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t even single me out for extra security screening.\u00a0 I was looking forward to my enhanced pat down.\u00a0 Would have been the most action I\u2019d gotten in 2010!\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 DO touch my junk!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is the first of my Holiday Videos!\u00a0 The Journey to San Diego!\u00a0 The sound on this is awesome.\u00a0 First because I got a new high-end, studio quality USB microphone with which to voiceovers and other audio recordings, and second because it includes a track of my ukulele mentor\u2019s new CD;\u00a0 Doctor Sparkles\u2019 \u201cSCARY COUNTRY\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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My thanks to you for reading and watching.\u00a0 My thanks to the TSA for letting me come home, and my thanks to Dr Sparkles for sending me his latest CD!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On my plate for today: installing another Christmas gift.\u00a0 I asked for, and received, Windows 7.\u00a0 I\u2019m currently running XP, and it\u2019s been okay, but I\u2019ve noticed some of the latest software out there says it\u2019s optimized for Windows 7, so I thought it was time to upgrade.\u00a0 From what I read yesterday (including the 14 PAGES of step-by-step instructions from Microsoft), going from Windows XP to 7 is not a simple thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a freeking exorcism or something.\u00a0 I\u2019m scared!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Everything is backed up\u2026 nothing too serious can go wrong, right?\u00a0 *GULP*<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Usually, food tastes better when you overpay for it.\u00a0 When you go to a sporting event, for example, those $10 sausages taste\u00a0 incredible!\u00a0 Popcorn at the movie theatre taste far better than anything one could make at home, and its not just because of that unknown oily stuff they call butter either.\u00a0 It\u2019s psychological.\u00a0 We\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,10,8,25],"tags":[45,81,398,106],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-life","category-music","category-world","tag-holidays","tag-joko","tag-travel","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}