It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Sunday, March 5
There’s a music festival in town and we’ve been sold out the past two nites and there has been no shortage of people returning to the hotel at zero dark thirty…There have also been phone calls requesting ground transportation…Regular readers of this crap know the only transportation we offer is to the ski mountain between 0800 and 1700.
Some people did not take this well, and these are usually the people who presumed we were going to come get them in the first place:
– Yeah…I need a ride.
– I’m sorry, sir, our van has shut down for the nite…I don’t have anything to offer.
– How am I going to get home???
I can’t say hell, I don’t know, tho we do mention there are Ubers running right now…Evidently, they’re all being used right now, because more than one person said they hoofed it from the mountain, which is a good half-hour walk…Fortunately, tho, while cold it wasn’t snowing, so the walk wasn’t too bad.
The big news is Maintenance Guy Luke has a new dog, a puppy named Koda…This really wasn’t a bulletin because there was a dog cage at the front desk when we reported for duty tonite, with Chris saying it was for Luke’s new dog…Luke still has Zia, too, the older dog, and he brought them both in and it was plain Zia does not like Koda at all…Zia did not acknowledge her presence and when Luke and Koda headed off to the Maintenance office, Zia – left behind at the front desk – looked at them with what appeared to be both longing and disdain.
Koda’s cage.
We are still working out the logistics of our spring vacation, trips to New Orleans and northern Wisconsin…The main issue right now is whether to drive to the big city or fly…Originally, the plan was to get off of the hotel at 0700 Monday, May 1, and drive out to be at the airport in time for a 1330 flight, very doable…This was because we wouldn’t make the 0730 flight out of Sparrow Regional Airport, a few minutes from The Shire…Now, we’d be obliged to pay to park at the big city airport, but that would get us into New Orleans a few hours earlier than flying out of Sparrow Regional at 1345.
Then, just for funsies, we thought why not fly out of Sparrow Regional???…It would save a four-hour drive and while we would get into New Orleans later, we’ll be so tired anyway that we’d probably be going to bed soon after getting in anyways…The fly in the ointment was whether or not the airline Jeffrey uses flies into Sparrow Regional during the offseason…They do now, during ski season, and some research shows the other airline does fly into Sparrow Regional during the offseason, which pretty much clinches it…We’re still going to think about it for a day or two, tho.
There was not a workout this weekend…Recall we got to sleep too late Saturday to workout Saturday nite and we didn’t get enuff sleep to workout Sunday morning, and our plan was to workout tonite after waking up, but we had trouble getting to sleep today, too (see Sleep Log below) and slept strait thru until the alarm…So our next workout is anticipated to be Tuesday nite.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1130 Sunday until 2130 Sunday…10.0 hours for the day, a splendid start to the sleep that I know has all of you thinking about breaking the old PB of 59 hours and, perhaps, hitting the magical 60-hour mark…We’ll see…Regular readers of this crap know we do not count sleep hours before they’re taken.
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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