I decided that I just had to get out of this hotel room if just for a short time. I got the phone number for the local cab company from the front desk and called to find out how much it would cost me for a cab ride to Wal Mart. Yeah, I know, Wal Mart isn't exactly a night on the town but I needed some stuff.
The lady at the cab company said it would be $3.95. Huh? I had to ask again, sure I hadn't heard right. $3.95 flat rate anywhere within city limits. Wow, what a deal.
While at Wally World I picked up a comfy pair of house slippers (the tiled bathroom floor in this room is cold as hell), an 8 pack of Gatorade, a 12 pack of beer, some blank CD-RWs, and a 40GB portable external hard drive. I really didn't need the little hard drive, but it's such a cute little bugger. It'll fit in your shirt pocket. I just couldn't resist. OK, so I'm a geek.
As my back wasn't up to walking around all over the store I used one of those electric scooter carts like the old folks use. I felt a little silly using it but it sure beat the hell out of shuffling around al hunched over.
I've already reformatted the little hard drive to a Linux file system and copied over some of my important files (ok, mostly girlie pics) to it. I decided to change my partitioning scheme on my laptop so I saved all my stuff I need and am getting ready to wipe the Linux partitions and set them up a bit differently and then reinstall my Slackware Linux to the new partitions. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so start to finish, including configuring everything again.
I figure since I have all of this time on my hands I may as well streamline my system a bit.
I ordered some lasagna from one of the local places. The delivery guy showed up with a brown paper back. I paid him and he left. When I opened the bag I found a pan of lasagna, a salad sans any sort of dressing, sme garlic bread wrapped in foil, and not a single eating utensil of any kind. WTF? No dressing, no fork.
As I wasn't about to try to eat lasagna with my fingers I shuffled up to the lobby coffee area and found some plastic forks, spoons, etc. Ok, now I was armed for battle with my dinner. Still pisses me off that they delivered food to a hotel and didn't have the good sense to toss a frigging fork in the sack. And the lack of salad dressing totally escapes my comprehension.
I won't be ordering from them again.