I missed boarding my flight by five minutes because TSA folks don't know how to do queue balancing; two other queues were significantly shorter than the one queue in which I was stuck in. Further, as fate would have it I fell in a life that was dense with stroller moms and wheelchair grand dads. Yes, I know I am partly to blame for not getting my ass to the airport much earlier and for over sleeping by 20 minutes but hey, I live in a country where no one takes responsibility even for major disasters.

Now, as my punishment, for the next hour, I have to listen to the admonishments (or alerts) of the "Homeland" (a very quaint, Uncle Abe Lincoln long cabin-ish, sounding term - who came up with it should be nominated for the Literature Nobel) Security folks that the current threat level is at "Orange: High Risk of Terrorist Attacks". If you go over to the DHS page, you will notice that there is no color to denote "zero" risk of terrorist attacks. Even the incocous green stands for merely "low risk" of terrorist attacks. Good mind games they play with these color levels.

Also on that color note, the full moon hanging low on the dark horizon this morning was serenely beautiful; today's upside of waking before sunrise even if I didn't make the flight.