The good news is that the hotel feeds me breakfast and dinner. By dinner I mean appetizers but if you eat a lot of appetizers then it’s a lot like dinner. I walked about 3 miles yesterday and all I found was a Chinese restaurant, a half built Dunkin’ Donuts and about 50 million rabbits. I also found another hotel which is about as expensive as this one but has free internet, a kitchen and is probably the one I should have stayed in. Took my laptop over to the other hotel and sat outside trying to hijack an internet connection. I managed to get on but they wanted you to register with a room number and agree to stuff. All of which can easily be faked but I decided I didn’t really want to have someone else get charged for me checking my email. (At that point I didn’t know it was free at that hotel.)

Conscience: 1
1337 Hacker: 0

Afterwards I paid the 10 bucks for 24 hours of internet access at my hotel. It was wicked slow, the connection kept dropping because the cable was broken and I couldn’t access randomfool.net. Basically a complete rip off. So after screwing with it for a few minutes I went down to the front desk. I told the guy there that the internet here is a useless rip off and asked for my money back. He didn’t seem to understand what I meant by the internet so I tried to explain it again.” You know the cable…In the room…you plug it in, pay some money and get internet.” At that point he finally understands and looks up my account. Then he tells me I’ve been on for an hour. I’ve been on for a little over a half hour at best and besides its really crappy access. Apparently realizing I’m somewhat agitated he quickly says “It’s all set, you’re all set” and clicks a bunch of stuff. I assume this mean no charge and head back up to my room. Sure enough, I’ve still got internet access. I make one last attempt to check my email which fails and then decide to clean the room up. If I end up getting charged for that crap I’m going to be very unhappy. Maybe I’m just cheap.

As for work it’s going pretty well but I forgot how slow working in an office feels.

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