I now officially hate traveling for work. I hate hotels that provide wireless for an undisclosed fee (no thanks, think I’ll pass, assholes. If you’re going to rape us on the price, at least have the balls to tell us what it is before we check out.) Television is a nuisance, not a necessity. Internet access is a necessity, not a luxury, and one not covered by the agency shipping me.
I hate government agencies with assigned ‘buddies’, and one size ‘fits all’ (except me) planning processes. I hate it when “buddies will take you out to lunch” at places you don’t want to go, where you learn nothing new about the agency you’re working for, and you have to pay for the food you’re being “take[n] out” for (albeit, covered by a generous per diem). I hate flaky won’t-be sublessors who waste my and
I hate having to be the know-it-all loudmouth in order to move the training program along, because someone else’s mental processes are frozen, and I’m the only one with the balls to be a dick, and point out the obvious while the instructor is in a kinder, genter, smily automaton loop, asking the same question with minimal rephrasings.
I hate puritans legislating a friend’s job out of existence. I hate the defunding of transit.
Bleh!
I’m never comfortable in hotels. It’s such an odd clash between the opulent sophistication and underhanded gouging (guess that explains how they afford the opulence).
More people coming over this week. There are now four people who have seen the place and called it “by far the best” but apparently not good enough to contact me after that. *scratch head*
*hugs*
internet
I had that problem for a long time. Then one day I discovered that I could use sprint’s vision to get internet – a service I already had on my phone (but if I didn’t, still only a $15 a month add on). It is faster than dialup, works anywhere, and is unlimited. You just have to have a phone, a usb connector, and just enough know how to set up a dial up connection that will dial #777.
Anyhow… I find it useful while travelling.
Re: internet
Yeah, I hear that wireless internet services of the cell-phone type are better than dialup, inferior to 802.11, in terms of bandwidth and latency, but are available _everywhere_. I may have to look into this.