It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, March 20
Dull Hotel Shop Talk
Boy, the lobby was loud when we reported for duty at the hotel…There was this group in the back – an eclectivc, tedious mix of the airline crew members and the wedding party – and they get the Group Yap Award for the month…And it wasn’t just the sheer volume, either, although there was enuff of that…Key to this champion yap session was no one was listening to each other, this Asian chick in particular…All of them were just waiting for the current yapper to catch their breath so they could dive back in, and we wanted to spray insecticide on them, but there wasn’t any at the front desk…They were there pretty late, too, the festivities not wrapping up until after midnite.
Then there were people at the indoor hot tub to kick out…They were a large family and the patriarch made the point they had just gotten there and that Brian the Maintenance Guy had just breezed thru and hadn’t removed them…This was believable because we had run into Brian on the way there and we asked if there was anyone in the pool…We were expecting a “no” because he knows the hours as well as we do, and he should’ve thrown them out…He didn’t tho; he advised there was a large family in there, but they were behaving themselves, as if proper decorum is an excuse for violating hotel policy…It’s not…The pools close at 2200 regardless of deportment.
The fly in the ointment, tho, was Robert left at 2200 so there was no one manning the front desk, and when we got back there was a line, including the last airline crew…Fortunately, their keys and sign-in sheets had been left out and, season travel professionals, they had figured it our for themselves…There were a couple of real guests, tho, that needed things done for them.
A Couple Of The Year Candidate
Later, this couple came in fresh from the hot springs in the mountains, and the guy made a beeline for the sundry stand…This guy was, for lack of a better phrase, pussywhipped…He brought a pizza to the front desk, and we were about to ring it up when his shrew wife went to the sundry stand and got some ramen…Instructions weren’t even needed, either: the guy knew the pizza jig was up, and simply went and returned the pizza to the freezer…And he did so without complaint, and he didn’t seem all that surprised, either…The wife ran matters, and that was that; he would have ramen before bed…And not even his own, either; the wife only bought one, so they would be sharing…Presuming she gave him any, which were not.
Admin Stuff
While checking in the last late arrival, the registration card said a rollaway bed would be required…There was a time here when we wouldn’t’ve given this another thought: it was guaranteed the rollaway would’ve been put in the room…Now, tho, it was only likely it would’ve been…Dayshift would be responsible for reading the arrival report, noting this request, and advising Housekeeping, and Keenan is pretty squared away, but the days of Candace and Brandon running a tight ship are long one…So we went and doublechecked…We weren’t surprised the rollaway was in the room, but we were relieved, both because my faith in my coworkers was reinforced and, frankly, because yours truly didn’t have rustle up a rollaway bed.
Gym Report
Recall we bought a staff – also called a bo staff – for our tai chi class and that we are using it for some forms, too…Well, just for funsies, we searched “bo staff workout” between sets today and, lo and behold, we found the very first recommended video useful…The first exercises we stole involved holding the staff in one hand and turning it left and right…You do this three times with each hand: once extended strait out, once out to the side, and once above your head…We combined this with our side lunges, squats/knee raises, plus deep breathing forms, and then our walk.
The walk was similar to yesterday: out to the high school, then five laps around the track…Recall yesterday on three of the laps we ran the far curve, from what’s called the waterfall start line to the break line on the other side…Today we did this for all five laps, and we’ve got to be honest, we felt strong and actually enjoyed it…We were a little faster yesterday, with an estimated pace of 4.2 mph, tho neither the exact distance nor the time was recorded.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log:
0930 Saturday until 1730 Saturday…8.0 hours for the day – a solid sleep week finale (SWF) – and 49.5 hours for the week, a dismal total, well under our preferred 50-hour per week total…God bless all of you.
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