Safely in FL...explosive ideas on the page nearly get me in trouble...

We are safely ensconced in our hotel in St. Petersburg, FL. We arrived at 2:20, my eldest spawn arrived from Miami at 3:25. It was almost as if we planned it.

Passing through security at Logan, one of my Pelican carry-ons was "pulled" for extra inspection (apparently the vague, blurry, completely not metallic nature of the case was somehow concerning. So I open it at the "special counter" and the guy swabs the open edges and across the top of the bubble bags that were at the top of the case and put it in his special, very expensive, sensor machine. The result:

My box of books tested positive for "Explosives". I wish I was making this up. The TSA guys were very cool (my first inspector had to call over the shift head after the "positive" explosive test. They asked me nicely what was in there and that they would need to inspect the contents. As they pulled the 1790 Stockdale edition of Crusoe out, I suggest that the cannon fire entombed therein might be responsible...and they both laughed. We had a rather fun discussion regarding the explosive power of ideas and that books might be more dangerous than most other things........but not for air travel and they decided to allow me get on with my day.

Oh, and no cavity search. All things considered, a nice day of travel (and how often can you say that these days. Dinner at Johnny Rockets per eldest's pleading request.

We are supposed to have two ice/sleet/snow storms at home while we are down here. I am going now....the pool beckons.