All That I Forgot To Blog About Part 2 - Monday Day 2

Quick before I forget, I am trying to have total recall...

You may think blogging is ridiculous and dorky, but where else can you save snapshots of your life instantly and post them for the world to see?

Anyway...

Monday morning I woke up early and wandered down to the gym and worked out. That is, I planned on working out, but I slept in instead and woke up to some starbucks coffee in the starbucks in the lobby and forked over the twenty bucks to connect to the lobby wifi (ridiculously expensive, most hotels around the globe offer free wifi in the lobby as long as you are a guest).

I hung out at Starbucks for about two hours while I waited for my colleagues to meet me and decide what to do in terms of checking out the room for the conference, etc.

Next we had a walk through of the conference area and I had to plan a dry run of the AV equipment later in the day with the resident AV guy. Here is a picture of me from the conference space taken as a still from my video camera built into my Sony Vaio AR:

 

The walk through went fine, and the managers assured us that all sixty of our guests would have their rooms ready when they checked in.... this was of course not the case, as we found out when half of the guests had to have their rooms moved to the Tropicana hotel for the first night because their was alleged "flood damage" but no one saw any flood damage, and it was probably a pathetic lie.

Either way, I gambled some more in the lobby and ate a glorious dinner over at the Paris with my work group and then awaited Jen's arrival at 1030pm.

Stay tuned for Tuesday, the first day of the conference....

All That I Forgot To Blog About Part 1 - Sunday Day 1

Since there was such a disproportionate time period between the fury of blog posts on Sunday October 14th and the quick update later in the week, I figured that now since I am back to balmy Baltimore I could give a more thorough review and breakdown of the events that occurred during our stay at the Westin Hotel in Las Vegas.

SUNDAY (October 14th 2007)

(Ron Paul spoke at the Westin for a rally, but it was the Westin in Seattle instead of Vegas.)

So to begin from the beginning, I couldn't check in to the hotel until 4pm on Sunday, so I left my luggage entrusted to the hotel staff in the lobby and wandered to Panera Bread which ended up being on South Fort Apache.

When I did finally check in, there was a half naked gentleman already occupying my room, and it turns out he had the same last name as me so I guess I can understand the mix up.

I gambled a little the first night playing video poker conveniently setup in the main lobby and I was actually up about twenty dollars by the end of the night.

Oh yeah, I also wandered around The Forums mall that is attached to Caesars Palace... and I snapped the above photo inside The Paris, and the picture turned out a lot better than I thought it would considering I took it from my lightweight low-tech Samsung cell phone with the sub standard 1.3 mega-pixel lens and no flash. Sometimes low-tech works I guess.

Monday will be coming up next....

Finally in the Room, More Problems - Laughable Ridiculousness

Well, I finally made it to my room.

The kind Westin frontdesk ladies gave me a key to room 628. No problem, I went to 628.... guess what I found there... I barged in on someone already occupying my room.

It turns out he has the same last name, so no big deal there.

NEXT,

I get my real room key on the 10th floor....

I get in the room only to find that I cannot connect to the wifi Internet in my room because my COX cable box needs to be reset or some crap like that.... so I am stuck waiting for 15 minutes after waiting half a day to get a room after flying to Vegas early, arriving at 8am this morning local time....

So the technician checks the TV, pulls the plug out and puts it back in and it works.

I could have done that myself, but I was warned by COX cable on the phone that I would be held accountable for any damages that may occur due to my activity.

I actually laughed at the COX cable guy as I logged onto the internet.

I knew it would make a good blog entry.

So continues my virginal day in Vegas. I think I may head downstairs and play some slots, why not. The hotel credited my room fifty bucks for the whole identity mix up and connectivity debacle... so I might as well waste it wisely.

If you get bored reading my rants, please refer to the interesting archival data over at http://www.constantskeptic.com/ especially the posts about RFID implants, those stories will sober you up real quick daddio.

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