This week I’m at workshop at the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego. Although the drive down this evening was uneventful, my opinion of the hotel leaves a little bit less to be desired. We’ll see if this changes over the week. What happened?
- This is one of the older-type hotels where the rooms are spread out hither and yon. I was told there was parking near my room. There wasn’t; I’m parked three buildings over.
- When I finally get to my room carrying all my luggage… the key doesn’t work. I trudge to the front desk (because I don’t want to lose my parking space). I get a new key… but I also get exercise induced asthma. This triggers a mild headache.
- I finally get in my room. Take a shower to cool down, and then attempt to connect to the Internet. The wireless doesn’t work. After hanging on an 800 number with Lodgenet for 15 minutes… I discover there is actually a wireless antenna switch on the front of my laptop no one ever bothered to tell me about.
- (edited to add) And of course, this hotel is wireless only. In general, I don’t like wireless connections. I find them flaky and unreliable. Give me a good ol’ Ethernet cable any day.
Sigh. At least the asthma has calmed down… but the headache is still there. Drat. I made it almost 3 days this time.
P.S. to mommyathome. Had dinner with your mom tonight. The kitchen is looking beautiful. Also heard you will be out in August; we’ll have to coordinate seeing you when you’re out here. Perhaps you and your little ones and gf_guruilla and nsshere can go do the House of Mouse.
