2:02 PM ET 10/12/01
Blogging again before going out today. Not sure what’s on the agenda but it’s the last day of my vacation and I really don’t want to be stuck in the room like yesterday when I worked a 14 hour day. Usual stuff, folks don’t understand and like to bitch about things that they do wrong. Unfortunately, I’m the recipient of the complaint e-mail. 53 e-mails last night that I had to respond to and investigate and blah blah blah.
Today maid service again confused me. Tuesday I went out for a couple of hours and came back and they hadn’t come yet. So I just got towels when they arrived. Wednesday I was away all afternoon so they did my room up. Yesterday I was working and I waited until they were going to be around before going out. Since I got mail bombed, I didn’t go and I didn’t hear a thing from maid service got a call from them at 4 PM wondering if I needed anything.
Today, pounding at 10 am. No one there. Pounding at noon (check out is noon), and the girl was perplexed why I only wanted towel service and to empty my garbage. Well, they have a policy where they don’t like to change your sheets every day to save water. I take part in that. My floor is pretty clean and I haven’t messed the room up. Since they weren’t going to change the sheets, I can make my own bed and all I needed was garbage and towels. Okay, I’m weird, but I was working and didn’t feel like sitting in the car until the girl finished 30 minutes later.
I take vacations to get 1000 or 2000 or 3000 miles from home. I can relax for a week and while I don’t go out much, I really didn’t go on vacation for an event filled schedule. I went to sleep. To relax, to enjoy myself in my own weird ways, and I hate having to interrupt that relaxation because the girl has to come in and make the room up. Are you not allowed to sleep in when you’re at a hotel if they know you’re not checking out for days?
Sigh. I know, I don’t get out much. 🙂
Watching the news of Anthrax everywhere. I have this suspicion that Anthrax is a lot more common than we know and that there were a lot more cases of it than what we know about. I mean before this week they were saying how no one had Anthrax in the U.S. in 20 years or so. But I have a feeling that people did, but no one knew what to look for. Who knows? Anyway, be careful out there. Any nut with a grudge and access may be using it, so again BE SAFE and be smart in these days.
Got a cool game called Arcanum this week. It’s a weird little game. It’s like a D&D class world but set in the 19th century or so. Game play is a mix of Diablo and the old Fallouts or Ultima (no first person), and it seems to be fairly open to designing your own characters and classes. I like that. If I get more time to devote to it, I want to really get into the designer that comes with it. God, if I figure out how to do import art, lol I’ll probably mess with a techtv little module. I’m no game designer so I’ll never release what I come up with, but lol, it might be fine turning some of these people into video games.
Thank you again to those posting in the guest book. More Patrick? More Jean Lee? What do the rest of you think?
– k9