SHE'S HOME: The Amazing Techie Girlfriend arrived home from Salt Lake City last night, but it was a bit of an ordeal. She had some eye irritation when she woke up Tuesday, and inadvertently scraped both corneas while rubbing them. This is quite painful, and causes the eyes to redden and swell and tear up. Well, when she got to the Salt Lake City airport she just couldn't take it anymore. She asked for help, and was plunged into our new "security arrangements." She was basically treated like a drug addict. She said the EMT people and the police were very rude to her, and kept asking her the same questions over and over and over again, like they do on "Cops" when they've got a drunk pulled over. After getting a saline eye wash, she flew on home. I met her at the airport and we went to an emergency room, where the diagnosis of corneal abrasions was made. (The hospital folks were very professional, by the way. The did a great job.) The put some antibiotic ointment in her eyes and covered them with some gauze. We're going to the ophthalmologist today. The upside to all this is she got a prescription to Percoset, even though she's no longer in that much pain.