{"id":699,"date":"2001-08-28T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2001-08-28T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=699"},"modified":"2001-08-28T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2001-08-28T15:18:02","slug":"off_on_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/28\/off_on_business.html","title":{"rendered":"Off on business again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off on business. Stayed at the beeyooteefull Marriott Courtyard Old Towne Pasadena<\/a> last night. Decent enough place, clean sheets, fair-to-middlin cable, good (if pricy) breakfast, convenient location (if irritating parking).<\/p>\n

However, their broadband access sucks. I’ve been staying there on and off for a year now (about the life of the hotel). Over the last two months, I’d say the broadband connection works about half the time. Can’t even get link on it. And since it’s with the same notebook and configuration, I don’t think that’s to blame.<\/p>\n

So. Annoying.<\/p>\n

Gave me the opportunity to watch The Mummy Returns<\/a>, though, which has been on my list for a while. Glad I didn’t run out and pre-order the DVD. Oh, mind you, it was a decent enough action flick, with the requisite humor, horror, sfx, etc. It just felt like a pale copy of the original. The original was much better than I expected — this one was what I had expected from the original. Not much I can put my finger on — it just felt tired, bereft of ideas, bereft of the killer soundtrack of the original, thrown together in a conference. In fact, I’m probably being harsher on it than I should, because I really enjoyed the original.<\/p>\n

Off home tonight, returning around midnight. I had been hoping to sleep in in the morning, go into the office late, but I have a conference call at 8, and miles to go, etc., etc.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. Four day weekend coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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