Greetings:
Staying at the Bahai Resort Hotel in San Diego for the IntelliFest 2012 Conference this past week. Arrived on Monday, Oct 22. They had upgraded me to a two-double bed suite; very nice. It had a range, full-sized refrigerator, microwave, coffee pot, couch (settee) - the whole nine yards. Quite large with a patio and all on the 3rd floor.
Problem: There was a loading dock just below my window. It seems that the loading and unloading of conference material went on between 9:00 p.m. and midnight every night. And the walkway into the building was just below my window and folks were constantly walking into the building (sometimes quite drunk) talking loudly until after midnight. Then there were the garbage trucks that picked up the garbage just at my end of the building at 0530 every morning.
When I complained about all of this the desk clerk said that he would notify security. What good did THAT do? When I called at 0530 in the morning to complain, the desk clerk again said that he would call security! By the time he woke up the security guy the truck was gone! Not a fat lot of good that did!!
Anyway, I'm flying home now. Maybe I'll get a good night's sleep tonight. Maybe. Hopefully there won't be any garbage trucks on Sunday morning in Fort Worth. Hopefully.
Oh, yeah. The food! For lunch on Tuesday I decided to try the Fish and Chips. Most places in the States serve American french fries with Fish and Chips, not real English chips, but I don't complain too much nor do I expect real English chips. But I do expect fresh fish on the East coast or West coast. The fish had been frozen, it was served on a huge leaf of lettuce which let the underside of the fish get really soggy and the fish inside was soggy as well. But, I struggled through the first one expecting the second one to be better. It wasn't. But I was starving and listening to Charles Young and Charles Forgy expound on Linq and C# so I didn't send it back.
But, on Friday afternoon (before sundown) I ordered it again. I asked for FRESH fish, not frozen, and no lettuce, put the fish on the french fries. They said OK. The fish arrived on the plate, soggy on the bottom. The french fries were barely warm. The fish was soggy on the inside. I sent it back and didn't want anything else. But the freaking place had the audacity to charge me for a cup of coffee!! I paid it. But only after protesting! The others at the table were quite happy with their meals of fried chicken, meat loaf and hamburgers. I guess it's just me. Maybe I'm just jinxed.
Shalom,
jco
