Blog Number 133

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well yesterday (Saturday) was not really exciting.  I had a lot of work to catch up on so I spent about 6 hours sitting in the lobby bar and working.  I found a power outlet and plugged in hoping no one would mind.  There are many many outlets all around and they seemed to have no other purpose than to be for the guests.  My coworker joined me after about 2 hours and we eventually ordered lunch (a club sandwich for me, the "Sheraton" burger for him) along with some aqua.  A word about the water.  It seems water with "gas" (carbonated) is very popular here and I have taken a liking to it.  So I order my water "con gas" and my coworker just shakes his head.

I headed back to the room for a small nap as I wanted to be back down in the lobby area to "watch" the Colts game on the internet.  This really entails logging on to NFL.com and watching the live game stats as they update the plays.  There is no video.  I almost opted for the $10 charge (per month) to listen to the games but it was in Real Audio and my machine does not do Real Audio real well and I was afraid that after I had paid my money, that it would not work.  Anyway, the Colts prevailed 15 - 6 in the first playoff game in like 25 years not to feature at least one touchdown.

Once the game was over (about 9:30 PM local time) we headed down to the hotel restaurant for dinner.  It is still difficult to get seated and order your food when you do not speak the language but we got along OK.  There was what appeared to be a set up for live music and eventually (half way through my linguini with shrimp) a man playing the keyboard and a young woman playing the saxophone took the stage.  Later a vocalist joined in and belted out (in English) "As Time Goes By" and then he left and the saxophone lady pulled of a decent rendition of "Hello Dolly" (which I thought was supposed to be on the trumpet - not knowing the word for trumpet, I opted not to mention this to her).

We made it back to the room close to 11 PM and I searched for some sports show that would show Colts highlights but my search was fruitless.  I looked around the room for my breakfast form but they did not leave one for me today.  Every other day when I come back to the room for the evening, there is a breakfast form that you can check off what you would like delivered to your room.  I do not know why they only do it every other day but I wish they would leave me one every day.  Oh well, it is they who are not getting my money.

I do not have any plans for today but I am caught up on my work so we may get bold and wander around the city (note to self: get a map).  Until later...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon