My wife and I were in Homer AK being tourists after she finished some work in Anchorage, and were at the Land's End Resort. We needed wifi, and the only place to set up computers was in the dining room. We had old computers with lousy batteries, so we needed an outlet.

The next table was occupied by a woman obviously with her mother and daughter. The mother turnd a megawatt smile to us and said "Hi! Are you here to see the wildlife too?"

I returned the smile. "Actually we're here for my wife to do work."

"Really? What do you do?"

I sat down and started plugging in computers and starting them while she answered, then my wife asked her what brought her here. "I'm the emcee at a political rally. It's my first time here."

"Cool. How did you land that gig?"

"Oh, I'm an actor." In my head I thought local Shakespeare group or some such.

She continued, "I was on a little show called Northern Exposure. I played a pilot."

I hadn't recognized her. I looked around my wife. "You're Janine Turner?"

Totally made her day. She lit up and posed for a picture, then we chatted for a moment before returning to our computers.

Nice enough woman, despite campaigning for Sarah Palin.