hotel hell
I like to sleep in a cool room, with about a fourteen inch thick layer of blankets. Snuggled up to the Ogwife thus encumbered is the great joy of my life.
Hotels, on the other hand, have those thin-ass Velux blankets that wouldn’t insulate an ice cube at the north pole.
So you have to turn up the heat.
Resulting in an Og headach- the size, and shape, of the state of wisconsin. Great way to start your day, I tellya.
In other news, spent all day yesterday with that insipid “daniel” song by Elton John jammed in my head.
Could be worse, could be the Patridge Family Theme.
Shit, why do I do it to myself.
C’mon, get happy!!
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I have a gift of a song stuck in my head many a day: Jo Stafford’s version of You Belong to Me as mimicked by my late wife.
Mrs. Fervor was both a great singer and a great mimic. (She was at her best, though, imitating Louis Armstrong singing Hello Dolly). It was a gift.
The love of my life is a big Elton John fan, and I manage to p*ss her off every time that “Daniel” song comes on and I point out that the writer was a goofy b*stard who didn’t have the sense to know that the “tail light” on a plane (or a boat, for that matter) is WHITE.
But we mustn’t let silly things like FACTS stand in the way of beautiful music sung by British perverts…
Thanks for stickin’ that damn tune in my brain.
any thing for you dick. when you coming up north?
Love that trackback! Not sure whose robot got which’s intestines in a knot, but there seems to be some kind of blockage on that line.
M
We’re flying into Philly the 21st for mum-in-law’s b-day.
As far as Indiana North, I have no clue. After the past couple of months, I may be swapping jobs soon. It’s freaking ugly around here right now.
Want to switch Daniel for Candle in the Wind ? POOF ! It’s done.
swmbo
Heh heh – he said “poof.”
Mts: She. As in She Who Must Be Obeyed.
I’m a big Elton John fan (or used to be, back in the 70s — in the 80s he went dud commercial and I lost interest), but I hate that “Daniel” song as much as anyone. I could never figure out what the whole problem with the Daniel character was. Was he dead? Was he alive but hospitalized? Was he Elton’s ex-boyfriend? And it was a mushy, crappy song to boot. I’d rather listen to “Madman Across the Water” any day.
“It’s a smaaaaall world aaaaaaaafter all …”
Try hanging a soaked towel in the room when you first check in. Most hotel buildings are closed circuit and the humidity in their rooms is usually somewhere south of 50%. Air this dry does bad things to the skin, not tomention the sinuses.
I live on the road and use the towel trick to bring the humidity up. I find that most rooms will dry out a saturated towel in about eight to ten hours.
Thanks, Og. I’m definitely a she.
SHE wmbo
Don’t have a Tedwife yet, but the idea of sleeping under a thick duvet with a woman who is helping me generate heat against the frigid bitch of winter appeals to me. As for songs getting stuck in my head, oddly enough, the worst for me is the music from Burgertime… Short, repetitive, and catchy… Damnit, I’ve got it again…
Sorry about the gaffe, swmbo.