As lili was coming in early from the commuter terminal, I
decided to surprise her by meeting her at the gate. So I
took the shuttle at 0630, imagining fondly that I was
allowing plenty of time to get to the airport and through
security. The shuttle driver dropped me at Premier security,
and I thought why not. Mistake. It was a total zoo, and I
should have followed one of my instincts - either terminal 6
or the bridge security at 7.5. Instead, I stayed put and
endured first the premier lane security guy calling forward
not only people from the right plebs lane as well as the
premier lane and the F/GS lane, but also from the left lane
as well, so that our premier lane was in fact the slowest,
there being another podium just for the two economy lines.
And as soon as I got past him, there was this commotion, and
it turns out they chose this time to do a security breach
drill. Running this gauntlet took well over half an hour,
and that with saying ok to the Rapescan.

I managed to get to the corridor between piers, noting
the absence of virtually anyone at the bridge security;
after kicking myself for a second or two, I went down
to 8, where I found lili trundling her disobedient
little bag toward the RCC.

It was way too early to drink, so we chatted in a breakfasty
way until it was deemed seemly to take a snortful of Beam
for me and vin rouge ordinaire (Bogle) for her. Chatted with
our favorite bartender for a while, then went wandering -
it appears that there is an underground walkway that goes to
the AA terminal, but it's closed to the public. We strolled
around the DL terminal, where there's nothing to see, but we
were reminiscing about flights from decades ago, then back
to the RCC for a bit, and then it was time to go.

UA 891 LAX NRT 1145 1635 777 13AB Ch9 dead air
was UA 201 IAD SEA 0819 1103 320 2A
and UA 875 SEA NRT 1255 1615 777 9AB

A perfectly fine flight I suppose. Alysia was in row 12;
we in 13, whose advantage appears to be slight if any.
restlessinRNO was up in the minicabin and bschaff1 in
the front, I think. We were pretty quiet, alcohol and
sleep providing most of the entertainment.