Hotel View

View from EconoLodge at Colorado Springs, near Air Force Academy.

Surreal

At a loss for what else to do yesterday in the wake of a storm that shut down the city, I came up with enough good reasons to check into a $50 hotel.



8 Reasons to dish out moolah for a hotel:

1. I can use my desktop computer

Hotel room. Motherboard on a cardboard box ( pictured left )

It'd been waiting disassembled in my trunk for the past two months. There are large files on the desktop hard drive stored away that I can now access distributed over 4 USB drives.

2. I can get a shower

ESM wasn't opening up anytime soon.

3. I can get my hairs cut...

You laughing at me? Well I'm the only one here, you must be laughing at me!

...Taxi Driver style.

4. I get breakfast in the morning.

Juice from concentrate and cold breads type of affair, no doubt, but it would be food.

5. There's no other place to spend the day

Businesses, libraries, and universities were closed and snow was still coming down in the early afternoon. The Walmart would remain open, and McDonald's was open for the time being... but neither were viable locations to stay until bedtime.

Besides, plows would be out in full force at the tail end of the storm, and I didn't want my car parked indefinitely in some area of the lot at a time like this, impeding plow drivers from doing their job.

6. Safety

Driving place to place hunting for a place to be (when there isn't one) could lead to accidents, wasted fuel, or strain and damage to my car. Seen a lot of cars looking sorry-faced recently. Better to just accept that were I ever to get a hotel room, this time would be as good as any.

Car of the Sorry Face

7. Temperature

The cold might have forced me to find shelter in a Walmart if my heating strategy of trapping body inside my car fell short of expectations. Temperature was supposed to reach 2 F during the night. I have no idea if it did, because I was walking around the heated hotel room in my birthday suit

8. Hypocrisy

'Cause I just in the last posts said I would NEVER EVER EVER (unless I felt like it) EVER stay in a hotel room because it'd be wasteful. And what should my words do, but come round to bite me in the warm, naked, hotel room inhabiting butt.

Plus, bonus reason: the mini-fridge was brand new!

In this house, we keep the plastic on our furniture AND major kitchen appliances.

When you make it to the top, don't forget your friends!

And yes, I did invite Ulix to stay with me but he preferred to stand watch outside. He said it was too hot indoors, so I let him alone with his wishes to guard the car. Besides, It makes him feel important.

Internet Anonymous

Ironically, I haven't slept at all since checking in to the hotel. I don't like sleeping on soft coil mattresses, but that's not the real reason. I can sleep in my car anytime I want to, for free. I can't get enough of Internet, and I paid for having the electricity, WiFi, and an uninterrupted sitting area to access it.

Yes, hello my name is Jonathan and I am an Internetaholic. (Hi Jonathan!) Last night I was homeless, and I checked into a hotel, and I didn't sleep because I didn't want to stop using Internet. *Gasp how awful!*

So today I'm going to find a nice bumming spot to park my car and win back my sleep where it won't cost me any money. 'You make me sick!' Or maybe I shouldn't be so stereotypically a Jew, taking everything coming my way, and especially even more so when I had to pay for it *humph*!

Maybe I ought to try a more generous approach. I could seek alms for Internet on the street corner. Got any spare mobile plan data? Hey could you help me out with a few minutes of battery life? Mind if I hook up? No not 'hook up', I just want to insert my plug into your socket. *Slap* 'It's not allowed to hook up here.' *Glares at me until I walk away.*