carrying a violin<\/a>.<\/p>\nAs it was, I almost left my book there, though. Noticed it just as I was about to get on the train to the concourse.<\/p>\n
If I didn’t mention it last time, there’s a Ben & Jerry’s going in at Concourse B, and also a Paradise Bakery & Cafe. There’s a B&J going in at A, too. They’re actually getting some decent eateries at DIA.<\/p>\n
I also didn’t mention that Frontier has expanded their footprint in the terminal building significantly, occupying almost an entire section on the East side, with many, many, many more kiosks as well. Reaction to the the Blizzards of ’06? Or a sign of success?<\/p>\n
I’ll also note with pride that I finished the crossword. In ink. With only one partial scratch-out. Ta-dah.<\/p>\n
Continental fed me a small sandwich and associated goodies going and coming. Nothing to write home about, but not horrid, either, and a definite uptick from a bag of pretzels or mixed salty bits.<\/p>\n
Not bad, from a travel perspective. And we let out early, so rather than getting home at Midnight, I was home by 8:30p. Huzzah!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The round trip to\/from Houston was pretty painless. Continental — which would have been the second big carrier at DIA during the initial plans, which came to a screeching halt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-homeland-security","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":0},"title":"On the presumption that these are not all terrorists —- which I presume because…","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Dec-11 11:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"On the presumption that these are not all terrorists -- -- which I presume because that would probably catch some headlines -- then these people are idiots. I mean, I've railed at the, \"Really, my little Swiss Army Knife keychain fob with the 3\/4\" blade?\" kind of confiscation, and I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43579,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/isnt-that-where-that-hugo-chavez-guy-is-from.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":1},"title":"Isn't that where that Hugo Chavez guy is from?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jul-14 6:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Crikey.I tend to be moderately sympathetic toward the TSA. They have an awful job, of dubious utility, under political pressure, and, honestly, they (on average) remain a lot more professional than many of the rent-a-mall-cops who used to be handling security pre-9\/11.But, cheese and crackers, folks -- how does a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/you_can_eat_out_any_time.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":2},"title":"You can eat out any time you like, but you can never leave","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Nov-06 4:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that air traffic controllers at Denver International have an interesting dilemma. Their contract with the FAA says that they are paid for lunch time. So if they leave...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27591,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/choosing-not-to-fly-the-unfriendly-skies.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":3},"title":"Choosing not to fly the unfriendly skies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Apr-12 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's unfortunate that Denver is (relatively) isolated from so many other cities I end up traveling to, otherwise I'd definitely consider driving more often. When you're taking a week off for a vacation, adding days (or cutting in days) to deal with driving there, though, has a major impact vs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27870,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/tweets-from-2012-05-11.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":4},"title":"Tweets from 2012-05-11","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-May-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Up and early to IAH, so I can fly home to my lovely wife, huzzah! # Heh. Autocorrect tried to make that \"my local wife.\" # Wow. This is a really long \"Premier\" security line. Unless there's, like, an actually high-ranking govt official at the end, shaking hands. # Dear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48669,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/there-are-some-good-people-out-there-no-really.html","url_meta":{"origin":11294,"position":5},"title":"There are some good people out there. No, really","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Dec-14 12:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"So the wife unit, +Margie Kleerup, flew off to California on Tuesday morning. Southwest flight, boarded separate from a friend, and then all sorts of seat shifting around with a third person in the row, and (presumably) chit-chat during the flight with her friend.Got to Oakland, and couldn't find her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jan_Wijnants_-_Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan%5B1%5D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jan_Wijnants_-_Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan%5B1%5D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jan_Wijnants_-_Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan%5B1%5D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tsa-plastic-bag.jpg\" "\\"Bagged")
<\/div>\n