Perking up
Feb. 16th, 2013 10:56 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badgerbagI have limbered up slowly in the hotel room enough to wash my handkerchiefs, lotion my hands about 10 times, had coffee and tea (making the tea in the room service coffee pot, with my tiny traveling water-boiler gadget!) and moved the desk/table thing which is fortunately very lightweight (aluminum with thin marble top). Now it is up against the window instead of slanted across half the room. Took half my methotrexate and injected the Enbrel.
I then took a look at the enormous red scooter. Under the seat there is a control to move the seat foward. That might make it more usable. When I first tried it, I could barely reach the handlebars while sitting on the edge of the seat.
The housekeeping and room service people just came at once and noticed that I move the desk and gently chided me that they would have done it for me. I just like to be private! Oh well! I asked for duct tape (to re-fasten my cane holding quiver onto the manual chair) and an extra extension cord (so that I don't have to get on the floor to plug things in). Since I am here a week I probably need to give up on the idea that they will not get up in my business but must develop a bond with someone sympathetic (as with hospitals - but much better power dynamic for me...) They may also have noticed that I kept the coffeepot, but no one mentioned it. I just don't want to pay 5 pounds for a pot of tea 3 or four times a day.
There does not seem to be a massage in the room hookup as it is a hipster theater-going sex hotel.
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We interrupt this blog post for the return of the Housekeeping guy with a roll of strong tape and he has taped my cane holder very firmly to the chair. His name is A*** and he has been to Detroit and Troy, Michigan where he visited his brother and people don't trust each other any more because of unemployment and racism and it is not First World, the U.S.A. as it seems to be, because people make you pay for gas before you pump and do not give you the groceries before you hand them the money and only do transactions through bullet proof windows, and he has been harassed by airport people in JFK airport, and has explained to me some things about the politics of Bangladesh. Where there is no freedom to decide or say things but if they say sleep you sleep and if they say wake up you wake up, keep your mouth shut and say nothing, zzzzzzip. We discussed federalism. It is his opinion that the U.S. and India will balkanize and split up like the Soviet Union (where he has also been ) and that to go across the U.S.A. in a car or train you will have to get your papers checked at every state line, because things will localize as the economic situation gets worse. People will not want to pay taxes to a federal government to support other people but will only pay attention to their own local area. Also, the man who knows more is a big man and knowledge is power. We shook hands and traded names.
That was entertaining!
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Soon my friend B. is coming over and we will have room service lunch and hang out in here unless I get magically more energetic. I do want some fresh air. I hope she brings books and I wish she could bring cats. There are no room service lap cats or entertainment kittens. Instead of TVs there really should be kitten delivery tubes. I also asked her for some sort of vaseline or serious lotion becasue my hands are chapped and split from the cold and wet in vienna, including that the formerly small insignificant wart on my finger tripled in size, split open, and began to bleed. So I also need wart-removing bandaids which I don't know if they have in the UK or a traveling nurse with a q-tip and some liquid nitrogen.
I hope A**** and the other staff who just flocked in will convey to the rest of them that the inhabitant of room *** is perfectly happy and is going to just stay in bed working all day.
I have a fantastic view of the street as I am on the first floor (which would be the 2nd floor in the U.S. ) There is a floor to ceiling window which my bed is facing. So I can see people passing by in the street with their lattes - there is a very camouflaged starbucks just across the way in a fancy building with gilt decorations which I will photograph later if the sun comes out.
I then took a look at the enormous red scooter. Under the seat there is a control to move the seat foward. That might make it more usable. When I first tried it, I could barely reach the handlebars while sitting on the edge of the seat.
The housekeeping and room service people just came at once and noticed that I move the desk and gently chided me that they would have done it for me. I just like to be private! Oh well! I asked for duct tape (to re-fasten my cane holding quiver onto the manual chair) and an extra extension cord (so that I don't have to get on the floor to plug things in). Since I am here a week I probably need to give up on the idea that they will not get up in my business but must develop a bond with someone sympathetic (as with hospitals - but much better power dynamic for me...) They may also have noticed that I kept the coffeepot, but no one mentioned it. I just don't want to pay 5 pounds for a pot of tea 3 or four times a day.
There does not seem to be a massage in the room hookup as it is a hipster theater-going sex hotel.
***
We interrupt this blog post for the return of the Housekeeping guy with a roll of strong tape and he has taped my cane holder very firmly to the chair. His name is A*** and he has been to Detroit and Troy, Michigan where he visited his brother and people don't trust each other any more because of unemployment and racism and it is not First World, the U.S.A. as it seems to be, because people make you pay for gas before you pump and do not give you the groceries before you hand them the money and only do transactions through bullet proof windows, and he has been harassed by airport people in JFK airport, and has explained to me some things about the politics of Bangladesh. Where there is no freedom to decide or say things but if they say sleep you sleep and if they say wake up you wake up, keep your mouth shut and say nothing, zzzzzzip. We discussed federalism. It is his opinion that the U.S. and India will balkanize and split up like the Soviet Union (where he has also been ) and that to go across the U.S.A. in a car or train you will have to get your papers checked at every state line, because things will localize as the economic situation gets worse. People will not want to pay taxes to a federal government to support other people but will only pay attention to their own local area. Also, the man who knows more is a big man and knowledge is power. We shook hands and traded names.
That was entertaining!
***
Soon my friend B. is coming over and we will have room service lunch and hang out in here unless I get magically more energetic. I do want some fresh air. I hope she brings books and I wish she could bring cats. There are no room service lap cats or entertainment kittens. Instead of TVs there really should be kitten delivery tubes. I also asked her for some sort of vaseline or serious lotion becasue my hands are chapped and split from the cold and wet in vienna, including that the formerly small insignificant wart on my finger tripled in size, split open, and began to bleed. So I also need wart-removing bandaids which I don't know if they have in the UK or a traveling nurse with a q-tip and some liquid nitrogen.
I hope A**** and the other staff who just flocked in will convey to the rest of them that the inhabitant of room *** is perfectly happy and is going to just stay in bed working all day.
I have a fantastic view of the street as I am on the first floor (which would be the 2nd floor in the U.S. ) There is a floor to ceiling window which my bed is facing. So I can see people passing by in the street with their lattes - there is a very camouflaged starbucks just across the way in a fancy building with gilt decorations which I will photograph later if the sun comes out.
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