Another Friday evening, another flight from Chicago to Austin.

Cicero Avenue was pretty darn slow, so I was worring a bit that Midway would be busy. Well, we got to the departure area and there were, maybe, 5 cars up there. This is at 6:15 PM! There was no one in line at the Southwest Curbside–just four skycaps waiting around. The guy who helped me told me it had been dead all day.

Got to the security lines, part 1, where they check your ID. There was no line for experienced traveller, and three people available to check my ID. I went to my usual guy and was though that part in about 15 seconds. Wandered over to the two dedicated scanner lanes–part 2 of security. One line had one person, the other was empty. No one there. All the TSA people chatting with each other.

In total, it took me 15 minutes from saying my goodbyes to sitting down at the gate. And more than half of that time was walking!

Some flights from the west coast were delayed due to ATC problems, but mine left on-time. A little delayed to start boarding (waiting for connections), but otherwise fine. The plane had a whopping 60 people on it (pretty typical; only once had this flight been full) and I was able to get my usual rear-of-the-plane seat. A quiet flight, and we even arrived a half hour early.

Now it is Saturday and it’s in the 70s and I’m sweating in this ‘heat’. It is, like the last several weekends I’ve arrived back, cloudy and windy. I must bright the clouds and wind with me wherever I go. I need to change into shorts.