It’s a lot less bothersome suffering through a two-hour delay at the airport after you see that you’ve been bumped up to first class. Yippee! Hot wash cloths. An actual meal. Nonstop check-ins for drinks. I don’t need the leg room but the elbow room is nice!

At the gate, I used the extra time to finish postcards to Ohio and also to watch (in full) the sentencing hearing of Tina Peters in Colorado. The video clip is thirteen minutes and normally I wouldn’t watch something that long, so I’m happy I was stuck, waiting.

Boy oh boy was it satisfying!

Tina Peters is an unrepentant obstructionist and election denier. She got NINE YEARS and the judge really let her have it in his comments.

Most of the flight I read Jack Smith’s brief about presidential immunity — the one just unsealed by Judge Chutkan. I had taken screen shots assembled by some journalist identifying most of the co-conspirators and other redacted persons. I toggled back and forth.

I still have about forty pages to go but let me tell you — trump’s mob-like pressure campaigns and the escalating criminality were worse than I knew. Having it laid out almost like a story makes it hair-raising. Disgusting. I cannot imagine SCOTUS wiggling out of these facts with some new-fangled, non-Constitutionally-based leniency toward trump, but of course I worry about it.

But first there has to be a trial. And then an appeal.

One fun disclosure: the FBI was able to determine that it was in fact Trump who sent the inflammatory tweet midafternoon on the sixth. Cell tower stuff, I think.

Home at two a.m. Finn made these closed-mouth high-pitched yips — a sound he makes on no other occasion. A regular love bug! He rocketed from Ken to me and back repeatedly. Body wiggle-waggle. Later, he slept on our bed all night, something he hasn’t done in several seasons.

I’m tired. My hips hurt (doc said to get up and walk twice on six hour flights but I only got up once). I didn’t sleep last night.

Nevertheless, it’s nice to be home. I’m gonna make a simple pasta dinner in a kitchen with colanders I can reach, a straight-forward can-opener, and utensils where I can readily find them. You get the idea.