I have a theory Alaska exists to kill all my favorite domestic airlines. Alaska ate "Virgin America" which was my favorite domestic airline. During this Hawaii trip Alaska announced they were eating Hawaiian Airlines. ☹ I hope Alaska keeps all the Hawaiian branding and uniforms (Hawaiian shirts!) and don't just erase the brand like they did with Virgin. I like Alaska, and fly on them from time to time. I just wish they would stop killing the airlines I like a little more than Alaska.

@@brianwski I feel you. I liked Virgin and Jet Blue, but then Virgin disappeared and Jet Blue either left, or got pushed out, of most airports I liked them at. I've never been to Hawaii, so haven't done Hawaiian, but only heard good things. Alaska is...fine. I don't love them, but don't hate them either. I do worry if they eat enough smaller ones, they'll just be another Delta/American/United/Southwest, and I'll be out of good airlines again.

Yes "general admission". You can move around in the crowd, sort of a first come, first serve basis.

thank you

There isn't any way to add a "tip" for Amazon package delivery drivers. (That I know of?) Heck, show me in the web interface where I could even figure out how many miles they were coming from. I know it isn't as good as money, but I stock cold drinks in a refrigerator for package delivery drivers to take. You can see the refrigerator in the video at timecode 2:00 (2 minutes from start of video). These drivers have a brutal job in Austin in the summers here.

"How do you know they are hobos?" - the definition of "hobo" is kind of a judgement call, no doubt! But when somebody gets super drunk and poops in a flower pot on a tiny small business's property (where the small business owner has to clean that up, cleaning up human poop) and the super drunk individual has nowhere to go home to, and sleeps on a bench outside a Yoga studio instead of going "home" (because it seems clear they don't have a home to go home to), and then spray paints the sides of cars in the parking lot of where they slept... we call them a "hobo". It may or may not be a justified label. Whether it is an "unhoused person", a "housing-deprived", a "bum", a "hobo", a "drug addict", an "alcoholic", an "absolute jerk", a "total loser", a "waste of skin", a "vandal" or an "abomination of a person", or a person with a fetish for pooping in flower pots isn't all that important to us. The problem here is the literally action of defecating in a flower pot somebody else owns and has to clean up. The person that has to clean that up is a real person, trying to make ends meet, that rents that commercial space as a sole person in this world. A person that cuts hair for a living, or makes alterations to wedding dresses. These "business owners" aren't the normal evil businesses you might hate on, because they don't employee ANYBODY ELSE, these are tiny businesses just trying to survive (and fighting for their very lives to survive). And they just don't want people pooping in their flower pots. Pooping in their flower pots is seriously repulsive and anti-social behavior. A person who cuts hair for a living doesn't want to provide latrine services to people pooping in their flower pots. It most definitely is not what they think their job is. This particular hobo isn't an individual making decent, good life choices. One BETTER choice that particular hobo could make would be to rent a place to sleep and poop in the place they actually rent. That individual should choose to stop pooping in a flower pot that somebody else has to clean up, and not spray paint the sides of cars in the parking lot near where they poop in the flower pot. I know this is a radical idea, but would it be totally crazy to have the self control to not spray paint the sides of cars other people own and care about? Imagine waking up to the Prius you own with a spray painted tag on it. And not having the money to fix that? Or at least have the common decency to not do all of these things on camera. Where it is is incontrovertible that they are are a horrible person?

"This video is marked as creative commons. Just making sure I can use it?" - Use away! There are no restrictions, this is public domain, use it for anything you like, for free, no restrictions.

@@brianwski Awesome, thanks!

Haha! On the next sunshine day I'll check if the panels all still produce power. I swear it makes sense to have a "garage door" type of apparatus where I can hit a button and cover all the panels with a blast shield. Just a few miles away they got hit by baseball size hail.

@@brianwski I wonder if a blast shield makes more sense, or something like...squishy? I've seen some car hoods (metal) take huge dents, but then the plastic parts just bounce it out. I guess the hard part is not having the (retracted) shield take up much space or otherwise block the sun. 🤔

If they didn't warn you about this (enough), you will have trouble swallowing stuff after surgery because of how they push your esophagus to the side to do the surgery. They told me "6 weeks"... OMG, it's been about 7 months and I'm just now almost fully and completely "normal" swallowing now. I could eat soft things like smoothies and ice cream immediately after surgery, and the whole time afterwards. Certain foods go down easier than others. I really like biscuits (USA style fluffy puffy biscuits, not UK style thin crispy biscuits) and I could NOT swallow even a bite of one for 6 months. I'd just cough up the parts I tried to swallow.

@@brianwski Thank you. I’m post 3 surgery and have difficulty swallowing liquids. Really odd as I am ok otherwise???

@@elizabethcotton4659 Just give it time (first). The doctors all mislead you about this prior to surgery, but if you still have issues let's say 20 days past surgery just discuss it with your surgeon. AND MOST DEFINITELY if you cannot swallow liquids 20 day post-OP you need to talk with your surgeon. Liquids were the only thing that kept me sane and "worked" for me. Personally it took my close to 9 months to return to basically what I would call "normal". My surgeon **AFTER** the surgery admitted this wasn't all that uncommon. The absolutely great information here is this: it gets better (with a ton of time) for the gigantic overwhelming majority of people. I am not "negative" about the results at all, in any way. But OH MY GOODNESS does it take more time than the doctors admit before you do this.

@@brianwski thank you so much x

Well, it's hard to drive to Hawaii from Austin, LOL. But you could take a cruise, or sail your own boat. But Katherine doesn't mind the pat downs, she has had close to 50 of them at this point. Everybody should try it, just say the magic phrase "I'm opting out" and you get a free pat down!