Unexpurgated, Whiney Sentiments from Three Days Ago (That's What Blogs are for Right?)
Last week I had the salutary experience of my notebook’s hard drive passing on to the great data stream in the sky. Thankfully, I had planned for this eventuality, so my hard drive was reborn from the back-up hard drive I bought three months ago. My HD is born-again, Hallelujah! My HD is saved!
But it put a crimp on the week, and because I only had a full disk image from a week ago, I’ve had the joy of re-doing some work I already completed. I think I’ll be more circumspect in the future. But I could be in a lot worse work circumstances right now.
I was hoping to move to some island or beach in Malaysia this week, but I wasn’t able to make arrangements because I had to try to catch up. The hotel I was in was a great value, but their special promotion ran out today and they were going to jack up the price 40% so I had to at the last minute find a place with internet. As I start to stay in more hotels (rather than the low-end backpacker slumming I’ve done in past trips), I get pissed off to no end having to decipher whether a hotel that says they have “internet,” actually has what I need. Or they’ll be coy about charging from $10 to $15 dollars a day surcharge to use the internet in the hotel room. I guess that’s how they stay in business. Make taxes and service charges confusing so it’s harder to compare hotels mano a mano. Milk the people with expense accounts. The rack-rate hotelier conspiracy. If someone says “++” or “Net” again…argh…if you’re so four-star, why do I the guest have to do the math?
I use kayak.com to try to find and compare hotels in advance, but often I find the best deals once I get to a place and can walk around and find a lower-profile, better value hotel. It can also be too much information, or the guest reviews make you think that every hotel has bed bugs, surly front desk service and exploding toilets.
Okay, I’m just in a cranky mood. I guess finding a place to settle down is looking more and more attractive as the nomad model has it’s share of annoyances. In part, it’s that I haven’t really done enough interesting things the past few months to justify the overhead of setting up office every few weeks or days. It has been worth the experiment, though. It’s less of a problem than that my trip has veered off into aimless wandering. If I was wandering with an aim then I could consider it the price of being in business.
On the bright side, at least it has been enjoyable becoming a first-rate instant noodle chef.
But it put a crimp on the week, and because I only had a full disk image from a week ago, I’ve had the joy of re-doing some work I already completed. I think I’ll be more circumspect in the future. But I could be in a lot worse work circumstances right now.
I was hoping to move to some island or beach in Malaysia this week, but I wasn’t able to make arrangements because I had to try to catch up. The hotel I was in was a great value, but their special promotion ran out today and they were going to jack up the price 40% so I had to at the last minute find a place with internet. As I start to stay in more hotels (rather than the low-end backpacker slumming I’ve done in past trips), I get pissed off to no end having to decipher whether a hotel that says they have “internet,” actually has what I need. Or they’ll be coy about charging from $10 to $15 dollars a day surcharge to use the internet in the hotel room. I guess that’s how they stay in business. Make taxes and service charges confusing so it’s harder to compare hotels mano a mano. Milk the people with expense accounts. The rack-rate hotelier conspiracy. If someone says “++” or “Net” again…argh…if you’re so four-star, why do I the guest have to do the math?
I use kayak.com to try to find and compare hotels in advance, but often I find the best deals once I get to a place and can walk around and find a lower-profile, better value hotel. It can also be too much information, or the guest reviews make you think that every hotel has bed bugs, surly front desk service and exploding toilets.
Okay, I’m just in a cranky mood. I guess finding a place to settle down is looking more and more attractive as the nomad model has it’s share of annoyances. In part, it’s that I haven’t really done enough interesting things the past few months to justify the overhead of setting up office every few weeks or days. It has been worth the experiment, though. It’s less of a problem than that my trip has veered off into aimless wandering. If I was wandering with an aim then I could consider it the price of being in business.
On the bright side, at least it has been enjoyable becoming a first-rate instant noodle chef.
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