Various and sundry things.

1) I did indeed make it through customs okay. The lady at the counter looked at me a little funny when she saw my immigration card (even though I'm not technically immigrating) said "none" for occupation, but once I showed her my ticket receipts that showed I was indeed getting the heck out of Dodge at some point she stamped my passport and waved me through. And oddly enough, Iceland was a bit tricky to get through as well. We had to go through the same sort of security screening as our initial flight out of Seattle (even those of us who were just hopping another flight out, and at US airports would never have left the secure area), and my passport ended up getting stamped twice (and the folks I was next to on the plane said theirs were checked/stamped thrice).

2) I had a whole post ready to go on the nook, then somehow managed to scroll to a part of the screen that didn't cover any of the buttons, so I lost it. I think as much as possible now, I'll be posting from hostel computers/internet cafes. I'm still really glad I got the nook, but using the wifi on it drains the battery really quick, and the adapters I've got (made in China!) are useless so far. I'm thinking about picking another one up today, but I may just charge it here on the computer and wait till Edinburgh to see what the outlets are like there.

3) I was going to apologize for the typos caused by the fact that I can't see the whole screen at once while typing on the nook, but lost that comment too. I'm not sure how much better it'll be on the computer, though... the shift and enter keys are different sizes than I'm used to, and a lot of the keyboard symbols are in different places. As usual, I'll just have to do my best and hope I don't confuse anybody too bad.

4) Most of the first round of postcards are done, and ready to be mailed. Not sure how to go about getting postage for them yet, but since I still need to find some for a couple people, that can wait for another day.

5) The computers here do have card readers, so I may try and post a few pictures. There will be a few on the blog, but most of them will probably be linked to my Picasa account, where you can see some pictures from a few of my other trips. If the links for those act funny, try replacing the .co.uk with a plain old .com. Wait till tomorrow night (or I guess afternoon, for most of you) to look for those.

6) So far I've wandered through the National Gallery (short stop since art isn't really my thing, but it's hard to justify not visiting free major museums like that), got a few good shots of Parliament/Big Ben and Westminster (which I'm also tempted to visit the inside of, but I've seen it before, and not sure if I feel like paying the £18 or so to go back in), and then spent a good four hours or so wandering the British Museum today. That was actually better than I remembered it, although a lot of it is still fairly repetitive. As cool as it is that we still have pottery from thousands of years ago, there's only so much of that you can look at without going crazy. I think my favorite this time was the Egyptian section, especially since I'd been re-watching Stargate: SG-1 with one of the bros. I think I'm going to head down to Buckingham Palace later today for some pictures (even though I slept too long to make it to the changing of the guard), and save the British Library and the Tower of London for tomorrow, when I should be more awake.

That's all for now... think I'm going to try catching up on some blogs/comics/news/etc. while I wait for the nook to charge a bit more.