winterbadger | (no subject)

Today my thankfulness vote goes "not flying anywhere for Thanksgiving". Between the tinpot -dictator TSA officers and the TSA officers who are just trying to do a thankless job for low wages, the hordes of travelers who are trying to get somewhere very far away in a short space of time and the (slightly smaller) hordes who are trying to demonstrate that their need not to have someone look at an anonymous scan of them for 30-40 seconds trumps everyone else's need to get safely and swiftly from place to place, with all the people in between who think that traveling while ill with communicable diseases is no big issue and those who think that their desire to carry 5000000 cubic feet of crap without having to check any bags trumps everyone else's desire to carry anything at all with them *and* everyone else's need to get safely and swiftly from place to place...

Basically, I'm thankful that the only human beings I need to share my personal space with this holiday are the humans in my family I choose to be with. :-)

Now, to get the work, the last bit of shopping, and the laundry done in time to get to my destination before midnight...