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I walked to a store about 4 miles / 6.4 kilometers away, bought a bunch of school supplies and walked back. For an hour or so after I returned to the #hotel, one hand was twitching and trembling.
I think I'll send a couple of decades of my age to someone in Quebec. I didn't used to have such things happening.
Note to Quebecois: if you get a box from California, that's from me. It'll age you 20 years and send the youthfulness back to me.
I still have two more grandkids to shop for, but this batch has everything I planned to get except for Kindergarten writing pads, which use a landscape format and extra-wide line spacing. Broke a record: over $100 per kid without any electronics involved, and I really didn't get much.
washable crayons, washable color markers, watercolors, pencils and pencil sharpeners, 200 sheets of wide ruled three hole paper, two three ring binders, ten Staples brand folders, safety scissors. Not even erasers. This wasn't even everything on the supplies list that the school sends out.
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I was watching the #NYC #Independence_Day fireworks via CNN (can't see them from the #hotel), but they keep moving the camera. I get that they are trying to capture the most spectacular view at any point in time, but I'd rather they point the camera somewhere, zoom out and leave it. If necessary, they can have another camera's picture in picture, the way they've been doing with Journey and Def Leppard.
By the way, the replacement lead singer really does sound similar to Steve Perry.
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I found a little minipark where I can sit for a while before walking back to the #hotel. This one is too loud (road noise) for musicians and too small for sports.
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I think we're supposed to be working from #hotel / home, but since no one specifically told me that, I'm going to the office.
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It has been nice and warm today and yesterday, so both days, I walked back to the #hotel after work.
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Sitting in lobby at new #hotel. Check in is 15:00, so I have some wait time. Expecting that they will have a room before then.
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LOL. The whole week, the #hotel room's clock was about several hours off of US-Eastern. I assumed it was India time, as the desk staff are all of subcontinental heritage. Finally, as I'm packing to check out, I check. No, it is about 20 minutes ahead of the Pacific nation of Tonga. I just set it back to US-Eastern.
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Back to working from the #hotel, because the office is not ready for us to re-occupy it.
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Oh, I know why. I walked. It was windy and rainy. There were umbrella carcasses everywhere. I carried my destroyed umbrella back to the #hotel.
Anyway, I came back chilled and wet, so I took a hot shower.
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Back from work. I stopped and got a few things for grandkids on the way to the #hotel.
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I spent most of today working on one case. A customer had a software application that auto-updated and suddenly gave license errors. There is normally a separate support team for that software, but I was unable to contact them. I did reach out to someone within $EMPLOYER that specializes in using that software, but he did not respond before the end of my workday.
Within an hour after I returned to the #hotel, I got two e-mails forwarded by him ... from their dedicated support team. The forced update was misconfigured and it turned out that every user of that software application *agency-wide* was unable to work today. They'll be pushing out a properly configured update tonight and tomorrow.
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The #hotel elevator seems to play Justin Bieber's "Peaches" pretty regularly.
"I get my peaches down in Georgia. I get my weed from California."
I guess the song is okay. It sounds like they autotuned the heck out if it, though. I thought he'd basically given up on music and was just trying to stay relevant.
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Dear #hotel manager:
It's hard to "give us a good rating" when you can't fix your billing issues. Seriously, your location should be using the corporate-wide software platform, and then it is just a matter of training to get similar results to the rest of the chain.
I do suspect that training _is_ the issue here, but if not, replace your systems, so you can train your employees on something works.
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#Hotel switch accomplished.
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I don't know who @cosmo_the_snail is, but they have decorated one of the elevators at this #hotel. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/284208
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Considering going back to stand in testing line. Although I've been mostly in my #hotel room since my #COVID-19 tests in mid-December, I noticed a slight runny nose and some coughing this morning.
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Finished today's #YoCo ( #yogurt and #coffee ). Today, the #hotel's coffee is watered-down, but still tolerable.
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I missed the #hotel's #coffee time, but I did find a doughnut shop that is open today, so I have my coffee to go with my #yogurt. #YoCo
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A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect).
The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail
Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking.
I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked.
But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
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Always use a #VPN when connecting at a #hotel, #coffee shop, or similar public network. Besides the venue's ISP potentially doing evil things, you also have no idea who else is on the network or what they may be doing.