Events

After five visits to O'Hare in 8 days, I'm going to stay in one spot for at least a week. Yesterday's 9:45 flight took off at noon, getting me home two hours before I'd planned (even the CTA cooperated), and except for having to get up at an obscenely early time this morning, everything went well. Still, I have space for one more gratuitous photo of Half Moon Bay, which is a wonderful place to visit:

Raleigh, N.C.

I'm leaving this: For this: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. At least I'll get there earlier than planned. I tried to get on the 11:30, but because the 7:30 had left at 9:30, and the 9:45 was delayed, they put me on the 9:45 which actually leaves (we hope) at 11. So instead of 7 hours at home before traveling again tomorrow, I get 9. I hope. Update: Well, the 9:45 actually now leaves at 1pm, in theory...

AA1612 SFO-ORD

Half Moon Bay, Calif.: A few minutes earlier:

In honor of the most sweeping legislation since Medicare, it's good ol' Bill:

That's Chicago's weather today. Except I'm not there, I'm here: Also, if you live near a Peet's Coffee, they're giving away free cups of coffee all day.

Sullivan thinks the President has done extremely well: The substantive record is clear enough. Torture is ended, if Gitmo remains enormously difficult to close and rendition extremely hard to police. The unitary executive, claiming vast, dictatorial powers over American citizens, has been unwound. ... Domestically, the new president has rescued the banks in a bail-out that has come in at $200 billion under budget; the economy has shifted from a tailspin to stablilization and some prospect of job growth...

You know the truly fun part about traveling through O'Hare five times in one week in December? Not knowing when that will happen: Delta [says] it is about to issue a weather bulletin allow passengers in 10 states to change tickets without penalty starting today through Dec. 27th. Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota. They are encouraging folks to try to change travel plans to get out ahead of any storms if possible. Delta...

Once again in Reagan National Airport, our hero pauses to reflect on the great pile of snow that landed on the city three days earlier. I have to say, it really is pretty: Another view, around back: We even got delayed for 15 minutes by a motorcade: not the President's, the Vice-President's. Still, I feel like I've had the full D.C. experience. Forty minutes until boarding...then I get to pass through O'Hare for the third time in five days.