Homeward Bound...

By the time this posts, I will hopefully be in the air heading out of St. Louis. I've got a short flight from St. Louis to Chicago, then home to Boston, where I'll get in slightly after dinner time and home in time to tuck my kids into bed. Fortunately, it's school vacation week, so we have a more relaxed bed time - and I took tomorrow off, because I knew it was going to take an extra day to recover.

Through the magic of Al Gore's internets and Skype, I was able to see my family even though I was some 1300 miles away. That's pretty darn neat. I was at a convention with people from all over the United States, most of which I had only known through the internet previous to this meeting. Those that I had already met, I still managed to meet only through the internet (with a few exceptions like, interestingly enough, Cam Edwards).

The surprise of the convention for me? Finding out that one of the pre-eminent experts on the venerable 1911 (you can't print "1911" without prefacing it with the word "venerable"; it's in the style sheet) is the same man that gave me my MA LTC class some 20 years ago. Yes, one of the experts on John Moses Browning's most famous handgun is a MA resident. I wish I'd known that when he was actively running the range that I visited several times a month...

Right now, though, the gun stuff - great as it is - is rapidly being pushed out of my mind by the prospect of TSA gropenings and such. The flights out were uneventful, though, with little turbulence and on-time arrivals; I hope that the flights home will be similar. As I write this I have a little over an hour before the shuttle service is scheduled to pick me up; in about 8 hours I'll be home. Funny as it sounds, even though I'm in gun-friendly MO, I'll be happy to be home to Massachusetts where I can carry again...

It was good to get away, but it's even better to be home.

That is all.