Report From St. Louis

Got into Saint Louis about six hours ago. My grandpa and I had a hell of a time on the freeways just getting to LAX, and then an even more hellish time in the 2 hour line to get through the security checks...

To answer Taggart's query, the fine weather in California is definitely not worth this...

But all went well and we arrived in town just in time to go out to dinner with some of my grandpa's crew members. Over ravioli and red wine I heard a bunch of great stories, including a good one that featured my grandpa accompanying a Scottish lass home, and then having to walk 2 miles through (what a nervous Bobby described as) Edinburgh's worst hood. Fortunately my grandpa survived the trip through hostile Scottish gang territory, only to be shot down on the next mission....

I am writing this from the downtown Marriot, which does not offer free access...but when the clouds uncover the moon just a bit somebody's wireless network shows up with just enough strength to let me get connected. There was no DNS service, but with a little help from my old man's cell-phone I was able to google up the IP of a nameserver ...