Notices tagged with hotel
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> I'm around the 50th floor
In one #hotel in #NYC, I was on the 41st floor when we had a fire alarm go off. I admit that I grabbed both computer backpacks (personal and $EMPLOYER), but after heading down 40 floors, I was wiped out for the rest of the night and also the next day.
In the US, at least, they shut off the elevators during a fire alarm, so your choices are (1) walk down the stairs until you reach the bottom or (2) stay where you are and hope you don't die. Well, there is a 3rd choice: walk downstairs, but not all the way. But you need to get below the floor with the fire _and_ hope that the upper floors don't collapse.
I don't know what the answer is, but high rises need a better escape plan than that.
(Another factor in New York is that many buildings are pretty old, so they don't have modern structural improvements. I'm assuming, but cannot be sure, that most of #Hong_Kong's taller buildings are somewhat newer and likely to have some structural improvements over older buildings. Also, in #Manhattan, #Brooklyn, and possibly other boroughs of New York, some buildings are built so close together that they touch their neighbors.)
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New #hotel is dirty and unmaintained (but still better than the hotel I was in a few weeks ago). Different chain, so that's not the issue, either. I just think the industry as a whole is a lot less concerned with cleaning and maintenance (things that cost money).
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I'm changing from this #hotel to one in another city today. At least they did finally get the locks working.
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#sonTwo is disturbed at the #hotel's incompetence in fixing the unlocked doors problem.
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Listening to the music from a Spanish-speaking church adjacent to the #hotel. The bass line is familiar … reminds me of some music I listened to in the 1980s.
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People working in the main building are working remotely tomorrow ... and most are off Sunday unless they're supporting us in the field.
With some changes in field locations this weekend, I may have reached the end of 84 hours / week. I was hoping to keep that up one more week. I'm tired as heck (partly because of the noisy neighbors that recently left the #hotel), but my wallet is empty and I'd like to fill it as much as possible before I leave #AL (currently planned for 2023-02-17 to 2023-02-24). Any longer than that and I need to figure out how to obtain my replacement debit card, as the current one expires this month.
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One assignment, I was staying at a certain hotel. There was a young man 👨 staying on the top floor whose parents paid for him to stay there. He wasn’t hostile or anything, but he wasn’t friendly either. I returned to that same #hotel two or three years later, and he was no longer there.
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Another night of neighbors' kids running and shouting at 23:00. They really shouldn't be on the top floor of the #hotel anyway. The people downstairs from them must love (hate) the "dancing elephants" noises.
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I walked to a store about 4 miles / 6.4 kilometers away, bought a bunch of school supplies and walked back. For an hour or so after I returned to the #hotel, one hand was twitching and trembling.
I think I'll send a couple of decades of my age to someone in Quebec. I didn't used to have such things happening.
Note to Quebecois: if you get a box from California, that's from me. It'll age you 20 years and send the youthfulness back to me.
I still have two more grandkids to shop for, but this batch has everything I planned to get except for Kindergarten writing pads, which use a landscape format and extra-wide line spacing. Broke a record: over $100 per kid without any electronics involved, and I really didn't get much.
washable crayons, washable color markers, watercolors, pencils and pencil sharpeners, 200 sheets of wide ruled three hole paper, two three ring binders, ten Staples brand folders, safety scissors. Not even erasers. This wasn't even everything on the supplies list that the school sends out.
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I was watching the #NYC #Independence_Day fireworks via CNN (can't see them from the #hotel), but they keep moving the camera. I get that they are trying to capture the most spectacular view at any point in time, but I'd rather they point the camera somewhere, zoom out and leave it. If necessary, they can have another camera's picture in picture, the way they've been doing with Journey and Def Leppard.
By the way, the replacement lead singer really does sound similar to Steve Perry.
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I found a little minipark where I can sit for a while before walking back to the #hotel. This one is too loud (road noise) for musicians and too small for sports.
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I think we're supposed to be working from #hotel / home, but since no one specifically told me that, I'm going to the office.
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It has been nice and warm today and yesterday, so both days, I walked back to the #hotel after work.
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Sitting in lobby at new #hotel. Check in is 15:00, so I have some wait time. Expecting that they will have a room before then.
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LOL. The whole week, the #hotel room's clock was about several hours off of US-Eastern. I assumed it was India time, as the desk staff are all of subcontinental heritage. Finally, as I'm packing to check out, I check. No, it is about 20 minutes ahead of the Pacific nation of Tonga. I just set it back to US-Eastern.
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Back to working from the #hotel, because the office is not ready for us to re-occupy it.
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Oh, I know why. I walked. It was windy and rainy. There were umbrella carcasses everywhere. I carried my destroyed umbrella back to the #hotel.
Anyway, I came back chilled and wet, so I took a hot shower.
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Back from work. I stopped and got a few things for grandkids on the way to the #hotel.
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I spent most of today working on one case. A customer had a software application that auto-updated and suddenly gave license errors. There is normally a separate support team for that software, but I was unable to contact them. I did reach out to someone within $EMPLOYER that specializes in using that software, but he did not respond before the end of my workday.
Within an hour after I returned to the #hotel, I got two e-mails forwarded by him ... from their dedicated support team. The forced update was misconfigured and it turned out that every user of that software application *agency-wide* was unable to work today. They'll be pushing out a properly configured update tonight and tomorrow.
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The #hotel elevator seems to play Justin Bieber's "Peaches" pretty regularly.
"I get my peaches down in Georgia. I get my weed from California."
I guess the song is okay. It sounds like they autotuned the heck out if it, though. I thought he'd basically given up on music and was just trying to stay relevant.
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