sorta back - *waves*

[derien]

I was incommunicado for most of a day, did you notice? I bet not, with all this kerfluffle about journals being deleted. Anyway, Eor was setting me up with a new computer - well, a hand-me-down, but much faster than the one I was using. Now I have to set up my own LiveJournal client again, and stuff. (I have used Semagic.) And probably update something, because YouTube videos won't work. (Java, maybe? It was asking me to do that, and then I chickened out partway through and am not sure how to start again since the icon has gone away. No, I know /me is not a moron, I'll figure it out if I really want to watch the Jeeves-party animal video.) My Explorer looks all old school and I'm feeling both relieved and off-kilter; I was starting to get used to the new version, despite all my grousing.

Meanwhile, in work news - I went back to the checkpoint for the first time in two and a half weeks, and wanted to kill someone within about a half hour. This woman lit into me about how I was just getting off on a power trip taking away her liquids and we should tell her about things like this, beforehand. TSA should call her at home, apparently, since all the stuff all over the news since last August, the information on our website, the continual announcements over the intercom, the signs all around the airport AND the person asking her as they were loading her things into the x-ray were all not sufficient. Thankfully that person who loaded her things was a particular Supervisor who is wonderful about dealing with rude people, so I went back to this Supervisor and pushed half a BIN of liquids I'd collected from the woman's baggage into her hands and said, "I can't deal, I'm sorry."

Hm, sorry about no cut, there. I can't recall at the moment how the html for that goes - I really need to go get a new client.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

People are really, really stupid about the liquid ban. Here, you can't ESCAPE being told about it. On the "travel size" toiletries in the local chemist: "REMEMBER! Only 100ml of liquids allowed in hand luggage!" On the self-tanning cosmetics: "REMEMBER! Only 100ml of liquids allowed in hand luggage!" In shops where they sell teeny empty bottles to decant toiletries into: "REMEMBER! . . ."

I mean, it's one thing if a traveller is elderly and confused about the original regulations (my mother nearly refused to get on the plane to go visit the EG when she heard her lipstick would be taken away - she's very conscious of a slight droop in her mouth from Bell's Palsy - luckily, the regulations had been changed a day or so before, and lipstick was now OK again), but tht woman clearly was just a moron.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I suppose things aren't quite as signed up, here, but for her to tell me that she flies 'all the time' and that the regulations 'change constantly,' when this particular one hasn't changed since last September... yeah. Moron is one word. Probably the kindest one. ;) My stomach ache hasn't come back, yet, but I have no doubt it will quite soon. I've been saying it for a while, but now it's becoming apparent that I NEED to find a new job before this gives me an ulcer.

[eor.livejournal.com]

Uh, I installed Semagic last night. It should be there. *points*