It did seem to have something to do with the Mtv thing. We were ahead of some moron rappers (Gorilla something) and they kept running into us literally. One was so drunk I'm amazed he could stand. He kept trying to give bzbdavid a CD to "take back to his country, it's called music" Ah huh. Evidently Alicia Keys was right ahead of us... wouldn't know her if she smacked me.
The second time through security the line wasn't as bad... although the TSO doing boarding passes after the metal detector got mad at me because she was saying something and I couldn't understand a word of it. She said "I've been here 10 hours and no one even listens to me"... so I told her I couldn't hear her properly and she said "well then you weren't listening were you?"
Felt like saying "I would if you'd annunciate in a language that resembled english!" She was so concerned about nobody listening to her that she didn't even touch or glance at my boarding pass when I went to hand it to her.

Got back to the gate - delay 2x... we finally got boarded we waited another 30-40 mins before taking off.... when we got to Houston we waited over an hour for bags (no one working at that hour I guess)...drove to Houston and got to the hotel at 3:30 this morning. Dropped bzbdavid for work at 7:30... I came back to the hotel and fell face first into blessed Hilton bedding..........! (hey I drove!)