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The View from my Hotel Window: Denver edition

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Well, la-di-fuckin’-da, Denver.  I’m not even convinced you exist yet.  On the plus side I’m apparently already The Guy Who Brought Painkillers, so everyone is coming to me for help since the air here isn’t fit for humans to breathe.

Dinner had better be delicious.  I have been up since 5 am and it’s 7:48 my body’s time.  I require something heavily potato- and beef-based, dammit.

DEER CREEK I AM IN YOU

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Where is my tuxedo? A hundred miles away.  Because of course it is.
The view ain’t bad, though.

View from our hotel room

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…uninspiring.  The marina is on the other side.   

This kinda makes up for it:

 

View from my hotel window

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…because why the heck not.  This might be pretty in summertime:

  

My favorite hotel WTF

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See if you can spot the problem here. Hint: it’s not the water or the towel on the floor. I’d just taken a shower.

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More hotel oddities

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How many times did this happen before they put the sign up?

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And this I don’t even have a snarky comment about. Just pure WTF.

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On the hotel

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The hotel is somewhat suspect.IMG_2033

This is the pool.  You may notice that it is in the middle of the damn lobby, which means the entire hotel smells strongly of chlorine.  There is a reason most hotels do not do this even above and beyond the ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE CAN WATCH ME SWIM aspect.IMG_2034

This is the rest of the lobby.  It’s a big nothing.

IMG_2035The view from my door.  No, not my window– my door, because apparently for $10 less, you can book the motel rooms at the hotel, which our travel agency did, which had my boss spitting nails.  I look out over the parking lot.

Whee.

The drive down was fairly pleasant, and I ate well in Louisville.  Kentucky gets very dark at night.

I’m going to bed now.

A couple of things

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  1. no-bullshitWent ahead and installed iOS 8 on the old phone despite the fact that the new phone shows up tomorrow.  No particular feelings about it at the moment; cosmetically it’s about the same.  I think I’m going to grow to like the predictive text feature and the HealthKit app scares the crap out of me.
  2. I am fully aware that every employed person in the world thinks that their job is either entirely bullshit or at least contains elements that are bullshit, but I swear to you that there is no bullshit more bullshitty and lame and insulting than education-related professional development.  It cost a thousand dollars plus just for the hotel rooms for my team to attend this required PD today and within fifteen minutes of the start of the thing they were asking grown people with Master’s degrees to stand up in front of a roomful of people and put napkins on their heads.  I have decided I am going to start to be actively rude when asked to participate in this sort of nonsense.  My salary costs taxpayers too much for these fuckers to waste my time.
  3. That said, the beds at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fishers, Indiana are outstanding.  I want one in my house.  And the sheets, and the comforter.  I have seriously never slept so well in a hotel bed.  I didn’t want to get up this morning at all.

Tomorrow will also be quiet, as I’m double-shifting and won’t have time to write, and right now I don’t have an early morning post scheduled.  However, big thing coming on Saturday to make up for it.