Deja Calgary

We pulled into Calgary around 8:30pm Mountain Time. Took my car in for maintenance just before I left on this trip. It's ready for it's next maintenance. We did a better job of balancing the days this time so no long days. It *really* rained across Minnesota. Made it a bugger to drive but cut down on the number of kamikazi butterflies we had to scrape off the windshield. (Big yellow streaks, not nice.)

Got searched at the border, again. It's a much friendlier experience with Canada Customs. We didn't have to empty our pockets and got to stand around the car as the Customs Dude (Dude is one rank above Flunky and one below Honcho) searched our stuff. Quite funny, actually. Had all of my books in a box. As he started taking them out he commented he liked the cover art of my David Weber "Honor Harrington" books, except for the one with the cat, that didn't look very exciting. When he got to my Java programming book, he took a good, hard 20 second look at the cover, blinked, looked down at the Security Handbook, and didn't bother looking any further. Without a word he set the box aside like so much stinky stuff. Shiznitz, could have hid my contraband under that next security book instead of having to crawl under the car! The worse part was holding back my smile until he was done and gone. He seemed like a good natured guy but common sense would dictate descretion in these circumstances. I definitely didn't want to give him a chance to play the latex glove and Vaseline card.

Tomorrow, Sunday, day of rest. Good. Python Miester has mentioned the words "pub", "beer" and "downtown" in the same sentence. Think this means a good day tomorrow, as well.