Amen.

I did an overnight in SeaTac because no flights were available til Saturday mid-morning.
Got up early, got a flight set up, and got comfy.... did a quick walk to a mall for some necessities, and ate, drank, smoked and TV'd myself into oblivion. Slept like the Departed.... awoke refreshed, ate, cleared out of my room...then at checkout, found that the hotel on-duty "manager" couldn't give me my savings from the safe, because the "Manager" had gone to Tahoe for the weekend. He couldn't be reached, or bothered, or convinced to pass the safe combo over the phone, or something..to give me my savings from the safe. I was their guest, saw and enjoyed a bit of the Land of the Free, and lived it up until Monday morning. They lost out on that one. I got my money and di-di'd.

Hit frisco for an overnight with the parents, wife and daughter of Daniel T. J., a good pal and Holloway roomie, and we gorged ourselves in a great Italian restaurant (Vanessi's), toured the Wharf, Ghirardelli Chocolates, and G. Square,
and it was all almost too much.... like hawaii for two weeks during the previous fall... and homeward for Christmas.

Whew. ....America !!