A KIND WORD FOR AIR SECURITY: The Knoxville security was polite, efficient, and reasonably quick — well, not really quick, but they’ve just switched over to being a TSA operation and they used me for training, which was fine as I got there early. (But Knoxville was always polite (it’s the South), efficient (they were retired cops), and quick.) My flights were on time, not too crowded, and smooth. So no complaints.

Since I do complain about air security from time to time, I thought it only fair to mention that experience. We’ll see how I do on the trip back.