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On my way home
Jun. 21st, 2012 06:34 amCurrently in the Air Canada Lounge at Ottawa airport, waiting for a flight to Vancouver. And from there straight on to Sydney. It was very hot and humid in Ottawa today and I am feeling a bit sweaty and unpleasant - not the best way to start a 20+ hr plane journey,
This morning I went to the National Gallery of Canada and saw the Van Gogh exhibition, which was pretty awesome. Although, I find I can take and leave Van Gogh. Some of his paintings make me go 'meh' and others are totally awesome. Also I went to the Bytown museum (Bytown was the original name of Ottawa in colonial times). I took a bunch more photos too, but when I went through security here I realised I had accidentally packed my phone in my suitcase, and I won't be seeing that again until Sydney (more concerning is that it was still on!). So in lieu of photos here are a few things I have learned in two weeks living in hotel rooms:
My suitcase is now weighing in at 22.5kg, just under the Air Canada limit of 23kg (although I think it's higher for business class passengers anyway). I am a bit worried about what I am going to do when I get to Sydney as I am flying Sydney to Adelaide on Virgin and then have a 20kg bag limit. I might just have to pay the excess baggage charge.
This morning I went to the National Gallery of Canada and saw the Van Gogh exhibition, which was pretty awesome. Although, I find I can take and leave Van Gogh. Some of his paintings make me go 'meh' and others are totally awesome. Also I went to the Bytown museum (Bytown was the original name of Ottawa in colonial times). I took a bunch more photos too, but when I went through security here I realised I had accidentally packed my phone in my suitcase, and I won't be seeing that again until Sydney (more concerning is that it was still on!). So in lieu of photos here are a few things I have learned in two weeks living in hotel rooms:
- I can teach computers to learn and once repaired my own washing machine, but I cannot ever get hotel heaters/airconditioners to produce a satisfactory temperature
- Never open the curtains of your hotel room in a state of undress, even when you are on the 19th floor and think surely no one will be out there to see anything.
- You can make instant porridge in a coffee machine if you have nothing else to hand.
- The price of internet access is inversely proportional to the quality of the hotel.
- Most hotels have signs up these days suggesting that if you want to save water/energy etc by not having clean towels
every day you can hang up the towels you don't mind reusing and put the others in the bath/on the floor. If you hang up any towels they will almost inevitably be replaced anyway.I - If your room has a shower over the bath tub you must be very careful to make sure the shower curtain is hanging inside the bath tub when you take a shower. A surprisingly large volume of water can escape a shower by running down the inside of the shower curtain. And bathrooms with showers in the tubs very often don't have drains in the floor.
- I have come to believe the standard model is missing an elementary particle and its associated interactions. The roomion has a positive hotel charge (also known as a mini-bar) and is attracted to things that have a negative hotel charge (ie things that do not normally reside in a hotel room). Things you take out of your suitcase in a hotel room accumulate roomions giving them a larger weight and volume when you try and get them back into your suitcase.
My suitcase is now weighing in at 22.5kg, just under the Air Canada limit of 23kg (although I think it's higher for business class passengers anyway). I am a bit worried about what I am going to do when I get to Sydney as I am flying Sydney to Adelaide on Virgin and then have a 20kg bag limit. I might just have to pay the excess baggage charge.
