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I Love Honesty
So I was checking in last night to my hotel, and the guy asks me what company I work for, I know they do this for some type of research or whatever, and since I am a “VIP” because of how often I stay at that brand of hotel, I joke with the guy and say I don’t work for a company, I do all this traveling for fun and recreation.
He looks up from his screen and says to me in a stone cold face…
“Sir, you’re in Meriden, CT. No one comes here for fun and recreation”
HA
I love people sometimes.
I need to plan better…
So I failed to get any laundry done this past weekend and I slacked and did none on Monday while I was home and then realized I needed to do laundry to pack to go away this week….
So I said screw it on Tuesday morning and put on clean clothes, and then packed a suitcase full of dirty laundry, and then tossed in some powdered Tide, and I will just do laundry when I get to the hotel.
fast forward….
6:30 and I am at the hotel, just picked up dinner and am back at my room eating it… Red Sox start in 30 minutes so I am ready for it and put off doing the laundry til later since I only have to walk downstairs to do it.
10pm rolls around, and the game is wrapping up, Sox win, YAY.
I go to look at the hotel map and see where the laundry is exactly, but I can’t find it and I go down to the desk to ask.
uh oh, this hotel has no laundry – only one I have ever been to that doesn’t, that sucks.
Is there a laundromat nearby? certainly, right across the street, but wait, oh yes, it closes at 10….
shit….
backup clothes are on today and hopefully I will be out of here in time to hit up a laundromat before I go to the airport for my flight tonight….
I Need To Go To The Middle Of Nowhere More Often!
I am not staying in a hotel this evening like I normally do… tonight I am staying in the guesthouse of the company I am installing at. now when I first heard this I was a bit apprehensive since I have heard about other “guest houses” that other consultants have stayed it.
just like a normal hotel room, I have my own room and I have my own bathroom.
However, this place is AWESOME, the only thing it is missing is a hot tub out back.
There is a pool room with big screen TV outside of my bedroom, also has a nordic track and a lifecycle and a drum set.
Then downstairs there is a huge flat screen TV, I think it has to be 60 inches, DVD, cable, multiple couches, slot machines, big dining room, and an awesome kitchen that I wish I had.
There is also a deck out back that is cool and has a really nice grill on it.
The fridge and bar are completely stocked and I was told to help myself to a beer or wine or whatever I wanted. Plenty of snacks and everything around as well.
I don’t live this well at home!!
So I am playing pool, drinking a plain coke, watching law and order and have internet access. I like this much better than a hotel room!
The batteries are charging for my camera so I can take some pictures later on of this place.
The Mystery and Addiction of Certain Movies…
Posted by nedster in Entertainment, Movies, Personal, Review on 2007/02/12
While it may have been midnight when I rolled into the Holiday Inn here in the lube state, I turned on the television for background noise while I set the room up and was going to head to be since I needed to be up in 7 hours to get ready for work….
but the channel was not on that generic auto-reset station shilling the pay movies for the hotel… it was on something else… I actually have no idea what the actual station is, but it has one of those movies… you know the ones… you stumble across them all the time while skimming through the stations and they take hold of you and they have some mystical ability to draw you in and make you watch it no matter what the situation… you may own the movie on DVD and it is sitting on a shelf 15 feet away, but you sit and watch it on TV anyway… you sit through the commercials and the edited out words and any other inappropriate things… and you watch… religiously every time… not sure why since you know the movie inside and out… every line… every scene… the ending… and everything…
Tonight it was “The Natural”, but another movie that does it to me is the Shawshank Redemption, as well as Scent of a Woman, Happy Gilmore, Evolution and a couple others that I cannot remember off the top of my head… What is it about these movies? I have no idea.. but I wish I knew….
How Do You Start Off a Crappy Day?
Go down to breakfast, get a nice big heaping plate of fresh sliced fruit and some yogurt and a fresh made waffle with strawberries on it.
Then, on the way to your table, trip and drop the waffle on the floor with the strawberries and whipped cream down, and then when you get to the table with the fruit, you take a nice big bite and there is the very strong flavor of dirt on the fruit, the cantaloupe, the honeydew, the pineapple, and the strawberries.
and the OJ had waaay too much pulp, some pulp is ok, but when you need to chew your OJ because of the volume of pulp… that is just wrong and gross.
but the danish that I took with me out the door was tasty at least, so that slightly made up for it all.
So I Got a Corporate Award…
This was supposed to be presented to me at the meeting I was supposed to be at in AZ a couple weeks ago but I ended up out at a customer site in CA instead.
Now, I know what it is supposed to look like, but the first thought that came to my mind was….
“wow, this looks just like a really funky dildo”
“Ned ****** – Winner’s Circle 2007”
Any suggestions on where to keep this to best collect the dust that will accumulate on it?
Severe Pet Peeve
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Opinion, Personal, Stuff on 2007/01/27
Ok, now I know there are all kinds of conspiracy etc etc about 9/11 and what people think really happened, this is not a blog about that or their beliefs.
This is about all those Americans out there who are trying to prove how great of an American they are by showing off the flag of our country.
There are few things in this world that bother me, and the treatment of our nations flag is one of them, whether you want to uphold your right to free speech and protest by doing things like burning it or other forms of desecration, well I suppose that is your right, but honestly, you are one fucked up individual if you chose to do things like that. That flag is not just some random material that was thrown together, it is a symbol of our country, our fight for freedom, the blood spilled by our forefathers who made it possible for us to exist in this country the way we do today.
You may think that desecrating this symbol is a protest about our government in this day and age, but it really is not anything of the sort, that flag is not a symbol of what our leaders are doing in the present day, that flag is a symbol of what our forefathers were able to accomplish for us, and what those soldiers a long time ago volunteered for and paid for with their own blood.
it is not a symbol of WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq I, Iraq II or any other confrontation that our country has been in within the last century, it is a symbol of our forefathers from the revolutionary war, and a symbol of the way our country sticks together when it has to.
There are specific rules on when and how a flag should be displayed and honored at all times, as well as how it should be folded, stored, as well as the proper upkeep of our flag.
If you have any questions about anything that involves our flag, feel free to ask me and I will be happy to explain the proper way that it can and should be displayed, how it needs to be folded, stored, and if one becomes torn, tattered, or dirty, the proper way to retire a flag, or the proper people to give it to in order to allow it to be properly retired with the respect it deserves.
for reference:
These people are NOT being patriotic with their use of the flag, no matter how good their intentions are, their actions undermine their intent and their pseudo-patriotism.
These are clear examples of improper methods of display of a flag, and a disgusting desecration of our flag to suit their political agenda.
A link for the US code which describes proper care and display requirements for our flag.
Proper Flag Treatment
What the Hell Am I Exactly?
With the recent events going on I have had a lot of free time to think about things, past relationships and how I have changed.
So in looking at my past relationships I have tried to figure out exactly what I am….
Pre-game warmups?
Exhibition game?
Pre-Season?
Practice Squad?
What is it? Why does it seem like anyone who I have actually dated for any extended period and had more than a 1 or 2 date relationship with, has gone and gotten married or engaged and some have even popped out a kid or 2 with the person they started to date right after me, excluding the quick hook up rebound that a couple have had right after me.
Are they all freaky coincidences? or am I some sort of pre-requisite to help people figure out what they want out of life and then go figure it out?
What I want to know is…. When the hell can I get to the regular season?!?! The playoffs can wait, I just want to make it through a season with a chance at the playoffs and then maybe make it to the championship game.
Ya know? I am sick of being the Pittsburgh Pirates or Kansas City Royals of relationships!
and yeah, some of you who know me, I am serious!!
A Week Since My Last Update
Yeah.. busy week… to summarize….
I am back in California this week, same place as last week and it will be the same place next week.. I am coming home for the weekend though since I have a bunch of things to do and want to go get my newsed car registered on Monday.
Still trying to deal with VW on the situation with my car but I bought a Saab in the mean time to get me around when I am home. I figure once I get my car back I will either go enter a demolition derby with the Saab, or sell it. Depends on my mood at the time.
So CA is not all that interesting, I am working 11-17 hour days while I am here, and working is not really working since I sit here, and watch a computer screen and try to clear up any problems that happen.
Their system keeps locking up because of the way our programmers programmed the system, they fucked up so I need to sit and keep this thing on life support while they write new code to try to compensate for the problem.
Fuck, but on the upside, I am earning a ton of FF miles, Holiday Inn Priority points, I am not spending any of my own money on anything, and I am really cranking up the billable hours!!! I think I might almost be at my quarterly amount and I am only a couple weeks into the year!
What I am really waiting for is 11 days from now for my paycheck, that is gonna be the nice one, my 4th quarter bonus and then all the leftover from my 2nd and 3rd quarters that they held back from me last year.
I had tried to write a couple blogs earlier this week but the damn thing kept screwing up on me so I could not post em… oh well….
if you are ever in Watsonville, CA – then definitely check out Green Valley Grill and Cilantro’s Mexican restaurants. They are both really good. I had a very nice double breast of duck with a juniper, raspberry and red wine reduction with saphron rice and then at Cilantros I had some soft tacos ‘con carne asada’ and orange rice, and they were all really really good!
I am on the red eye home tonight, same as last week and same as planned for next week. That was the reason I did not make it to the show last week, I was totally drained and slept off and on Sat afternoon and was just too wiped to go out in public!
have a great weekend and hope all is well with all of you!
The Saga of the Bag
Ok, so I could not post earlier for some reason, MySpace was being a douche….
So, at 9:45 last night I decided I did not trust Delta, and I went to target and bought some jeans, a shirt, some socks, underwear, and some Sudafed, and as I am standing there picking out my underwear, I get flashbacks to childhood where there are announcements over the intercom telling us that it is 10pm and the store is now closed, please take all your purchases to the front of the store. Not sure why that always happened as a kid, but I have a ton of memories of being at either Caldor or Bradlees with my mom, and the lights dimming and that announcement over the loud speakers the metal gate being half lowered across the doorway into the mall, but I have gotten off track now…
So, I got a call last night at 11ish from Tony The Flying Moose Delivery Service(I will leave the name alone, what can I say that can improve the humor in that?) telling me that he would be dropping my bag off to the Best Western on Main street in Watsonville in about a half an hour.
I felt the need to correct him, and tell him I was at the Holiday Inn Express, not the Best Western, and he looked at the slip and says “Oh yeah, it does say that doesn’t it”
oye….
So I go to bed….
3am rolls around and the phone rings, I wake up and answer it and don’t even let the person speak, I simply mutter the words…
“I’ll pick it up in the morning” and then hang up the phone.
So I get up, put on my new clothes and go down and check out and get my suitcase…. stick my dirty clothes in the suitcase in the target bag and then check out and go drop the suitcase into my trunk, basically untouched…
So that is that…
but I ended up coming back to the hotel tonight and checking back in because my work plans have changed and I am now here til Friday when I will be taking a red eye home…. so no New Jersey for me… Shucks… I am terribly disappointed…