You know, I’m very unimpressed with Marriott Hotels, or rather the one hosting Starfest 2008. This is supposedly a 3-star hotel but things are just not right. I already mentioned the lack of a Sci-Fi channel, but this I found a bit more annoying. Despite the fact that this is a convention weekend and the hotel is pretty full of…
Category: Rants
Only Two More Days of Suffering
It’s been a year since I ranted about those hideous Vermont Teddy Bear commercials (which they removed from YouTube). This year, they dropped the porno-girls in favor of a couple different musical commercials. One seems to run about 2-minutes with some loser screeching, “Baby it’s you! It’s you!” as the stupid people with their loser bears are on the screen.…
The Case of the Hideous Stench
When we came to work last Wednesday night, there was a mild stink in the Command Center. Well, sometimes there are weird smells within the Command Center. People bring a wide variety of foods and stuff in, some of which don’t smell so good. Then there are people like Crop Duster, who will pass gas as they walk behind you.…
Inspection
So I leave for work Saturday night to find a posting in the clip outside my apartment door that the complex uses to place announcements. This particular paper declared that there would be random inspections of the various apartments in the complex at the request of a lender. Maybe the place is being sold or something, I don’t know. Regardless,…
Adventures on the Road
Having survived the stomach flu yesterday along with a serious ribbing from my coworkers and friends for it, I felt well enough to attend my Japanese class followed by a trip to Colorado Springs for a Reformed Church conference tomorrow (I didn’t want to travel through Denver either way tomorrow with the World Series in town). It has been an…