Maybe TSA Hawaiians are just innately polite ... or just maybe it's a trend.. they've certainly Heard from the public, by now and we gots a functioning Executive again.

Hawaii is one of few destinations that might entice me to run the gantlet; it's comforting to hear your report of minimal idiocies encountered in Paradise (well, save the drug Ads; hard to kill an account that everyone knows sucks, when they have so many $$ to burn.)

Meanwhile, will settle for vicarious ... was hoping, by now to have had a ride in the CarterCopter, touted by your countryman, Doug Marker ... a frequenter of these parts until savaged-away.. and somewhat involved in its development; dunno if you were around when he was (?)

http://www.cartercopters.com/
(They just reached mu-1, a significant factoid for the enthusiasts of such flight.)

Now That's the machine in which I'd like to be spirited away to the Land of Macadamia nuts (and fewer of the other kinds.)