Peter’s Blog about lots of things

Folks, this is not rocket science, here is a start of things to enhance your hotel experience for your customers…

1. Make the sink near the shower so you can use the same soap and save on resources
2. Make sure the heating or ac system is not loud at all.  it needs a variable speed fan that the user can adjust
3. Make sure there are plenty of power outlets.  I’m sitting in a hotel room today with a laptop plugged into the outlet on the lamp (good move) and the cell phone plugged into the bathroom’s outlet (bad move)

There are probably hundreds of points i could put out, but i think it is better to start with some reasonable ones that at least can be knocked off so there is some progress. I’ll think of more things later…

So i am sitting here and stewing about various things, like usual. What should i rag on? Well, it is a universally, obvious problem. the tv systems suck and it has few channels and few benefits, and they make all their money off of pay per view porn. So for all of us that have to suffer through their crappy system, we have to watch a limited set of channels, with some useless info channels that add no value, etc… why not just bail on all that crud and just get direct tv, or comcast, etc.???   Cable of any sort has to be better than the lowsy “system” they use to try to get you into just using and buying some porn, which people are probably all just downloading now a days anyway to save money!

So i sit there on the plane across the country… It is crowded and there is little leg room in the trailor park part of coach seating. So at some point i pick up the magazine in the back of the seat pocket.  It clearly has some sort of stained liquid on it so i swap it for the neighbor’s. And what a surprise… It is an award winning magazine!  What award it won, i got no idea. In fact who the hell cares, and who the hell decides that any shitty airline magazine would win anything in the first place?  Someone find United airlines and answer me! (more…)

So i was thinking what would be a really nice retirement. I have it in my mind, i just don’t know if it exists, given a few problems. First some background. In the 1988 i had a small apartment (5th floor walk up) in Aix en Province… I even remember the address, 13 rue de la glacier. Man, i pulled that out of deep memory. Anyway, thinking back to those years and my awful spoken french, i think i have an ideal retirement. (more…)

Folks, there are 3 airports in the DC metro area. They all have issues, so here is a rundown based upon living in the Northern Virginia area, near Tyson’s corner and the beltway (495). (more…)