En route

What do you do when you have a 3 hour layover in Sea- Tac? You start at the chair massage kiosk fpr 30 minutes of removing the work-monkey from your back. Then a nice sit-down brunch at Anthony's (seafood omelette mmm). And that pretty much takes you up to boarding time.

One additional nice thing about the iPhone: you don't have to keep track of which airports charge for wifi.

Chicago

On the ground on Chicago. Just need to pick up the rental car and then we'll see what rush hour traffic is like. I may end up stopping to sit down for dinner if things look slow.

Polish buffet

That would be 'option A': stop for dinner and see if the traffic thins out. So with the confidence of a GPS behind me, I pulled off on a random exit, wandered around briefly, and found myself at the Red Apple (only in Polish), a buffet with things like schnitzel and potato pancakes and cabbage rolls and such. Quite good in an all you can eat ethnic buffet sort of way.