2006 Apcug - Pre Convention jitters
Oh what a relief it is!
..to know you are not going to be kicked to the curb in a city like Las Vegas during one of the largest conventions of the year!
It all started Saturday night, when I should have been celebrating the New Year. I had made reservations at the Stardust at least two months ago, but somehow the reservation number evaporated, as things on my desk are wont. Note to self: It should have gone in the palm pilot, like everything else of value.
And valuable it was! The rooms in Vegas are like gold in a week where over half the hotels are sold out. As Murphy's law would predict, Stardust also lost my reservation. I won't even repeat here the language I used as I woke up my wife, a few minutes past midnight. FUBARed, is how Jay Eatherly would put it. Google it, and you will catch my drift.
Well, at least I did call, and at least Stardust did put my reservation in anew, but they were sold out Friday night, as was just about every hotel I called.
Today, the first day of APCUG, I was pondering what it might be like to spend a night at the airport, like Tom Hanks as Viktor in the film The Terminal,
I finally got someone at the Frontier, just across the way, and booked a room for an ungodly rate that I can only chalk up to my own disorganization. And so, my New Year's resolution is to be more ORGANIZED!
First impressions -
Stardust doesn't have coffee pots in the room - obviously, management realized that this would mean more room service business, but for those of you that just want some coffee and not the priviledge of tipping someone for it, do what I did this morning. Go over to Walgreens and buy a $9.99 4-cup coffee maker. So what if I can't fit it in my luggage - it's only $10 and it makes good coffee.
Also I got some very nice Don Pablo cigars from across the street in a little strip mall. The guys from cuba where there making them almost to order. Very nice and not that pricey either. A good smoke if you like cigars.
Last night I was at the food court at the Fashion Show Mall, just next to the Frontier Casino. Pretty good food, but the place was a mess. Good thing I've had the HepA shot.
That's about it for now. Time to go down and see what's going on.
..to know you are not going to be kicked to the curb in a city like Las Vegas during one of the largest conventions of the year!
It all started Saturday night, when I should have been celebrating the New Year. I had made reservations at the Stardust at least two months ago, but somehow the reservation number evaporated, as things on my desk are wont. Note to self: It should have gone in the palm pilot, like everything else of value.
And valuable it was! The rooms in Vegas are like gold in a week where over half the hotels are sold out. As Murphy's law would predict, Stardust also lost my reservation. I won't even repeat here the language I used as I woke up my wife, a few minutes past midnight. FUBARed, is how Jay Eatherly would put it. Google it, and you will catch my drift.
Well, at least I did call, and at least Stardust did put my reservation in anew, but they were sold out Friday night, as was just about every hotel I called.
Today, the first day of APCUG, I was pondering what it might be like to spend a night at the airport, like Tom Hanks as Viktor in the film The Terminal,
I finally got someone at the Frontier, just across the way, and booked a room for an ungodly rate that I can only chalk up to my own disorganization. And so, my New Year's resolution is to be more ORGANIZED!
First impressions -
Stardust doesn't have coffee pots in the room - obviously, management realized that this would mean more room service business, but for those of you that just want some coffee and not the priviledge of tipping someone for it, do what I did this morning. Go over to Walgreens and buy a $9.99 4-cup coffee maker. So what if I can't fit it in my luggage - it's only $10 and it makes good coffee.
Also I got some very nice Don Pablo cigars from across the street in a little strip mall. The guys from cuba where there making them almost to order. Very nice and not that pricey either. A good smoke if you like cigars.
Last night I was at the food court at the Fashion Show Mall, just next to the Frontier Casino. Pretty good food, but the place was a mess. Good thing I've had the HepA shot.
That's about it for now. Time to go down and see what's going on.
posted by Michael Moore @ 11:46 AM
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