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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • A lot of airports have detailed, and sometimes even interactive, maps online. If I’m hitting an airport I haven’t been to yet, I’ll always take a look at the map to see where I’ll be coming into the airport and where I’ll departing.

    As others have touched on, having the flight ticket and photo ID immediately available to hand to airport security / Customs is going to help get through the process faster.

    Almost all airport security has a little bit of a different layout, but the process is mostly the same. Queue up and wait your turn for an available Security or Customs agent. Sometimes staff are directing people which agent to go. Most times the agents will be yelling out for the next person. Be ready to hand them the ticket and/or photo ID. Customs will ask some basic questions like “Where are you headed?” “Business or Pleasure?” or they’ll ask if you’re bringing anything with you to declare (mostly talking about sealed food/drink items).

    Next usually comes the metal detectors and luggage search. You’ll place your stuff in bins. Use as many bins as you need for your electronics, shoes, things in your pockets, carry-on, etc. Follow directions to queue up. Once you’ve been scanned, Security may ask you to step to the side and they’ll run a wand around your body. This is pretty rare and usually doesn’t happen.

    After that, wait for your bins to come down the conveyer and you’ve passed imo the most stressful part of flying.

    The most interesting Arrivals security I had to go through was in Mexico. They have everybody press a button in big room. If the light turns green, you’re good to go without being checked. If the light turns red, you’re in for a quick security check lol

    I prefer to find my gate first before wandering around to look for food or go to the bathroom. I’m usually 45-60 minutes early for my first boarding time just to make sure I know where things are at, then I grab a little food if I’m hungry.

    Depending on the size of the airports, it may feel a little overwhelming. Each gate has a desk staffed by the airline. Feel free to ask them any questions or ask any of them for directions. One thing I’ve found is that the airline’s app is usually more up-to-date with information than the screens or, sometimes, even staff. Once, I was able to notify the desk staff of a gate change before even they knew about it (very rare). Another time, I got a notification of delay just a few minutes before the screens updated the flight status.

    If you give yourself enough time, everything will go smoothly.


  • Thanks, I’ll be checking this out for sure. I’ve been needing a good browser overlay to show DPS meters in FFXIV after switching from Windows to Bazzite. The available options weren’t working out for me and this looks like it’ll suite my needs perfectly.

    May be a bit late now, but due to the potential universal nature of this, a name change to something more generic might be good. Just a thought!


















  • I’ve used the oven method for two different gloves, but used shaving cream on the first one and a specific treatment foam on the second one. It’s been 10 years since I last played, but I remember putting it on a cookie sheet and we turned the oven off before placing the glove in.

    Sucks this happened to ya. Hopefully somebody around you has a spare you can borrow until you can figure out a replacement and get it broken in.