Holiday Inn to the rescue!

Alright, I knew this trip was gonna suck being Salt Lake City and all, but I didn't think it'd be this bad... Customer requested that I book all travel through their travel agency and go by their rules, so I ended up with Southwest Airline, Enterprise rental car, and Comfort Inn, instead of my usual United, Hertz, and Holiday Inn Express. I am fine with Southwest, it's actually my second preferred airline, and a rental car is a rental car...

So it started with the flight delayed for 30 minutes, then sit through a full flight with a sweaty guy next to me, walking seemingly endlessly to my rental car, and spending the next 45 minutes looking for my hotel. That was Google's fault, by the way. Somehow it thinks the Comfort Inn is waaaay south of where it actually is, so I found it the old fashioned way: ask.

Just when I thought the night is over, I checked into the hotel at 11:20PM, carried luggage up to my room (no elevator, room at the farthest corner, of course)... and the room was NASTY. It had a weird smell that reminded me of the worst hotel room I've ever been to in Long Beach, it's almost like someone smoked in there and they tried to cover it up with chemicals, mixed with body odor.

That was the last straw, so I picked up the phone and called Holiday Inn's reservation line and checked myself into the nearest Holiday Inn Express. Much nicer.

I have enough points saved up so I was able to use them to get free nights, since I know the customer will probably not be happy with my picking my own $130/night hotel rather than the $60/night hotel they picked for me... but that's what these points are for, to get me out of yucky dirt holes like Comfort Inn.

Let's hope tomorrow (really, today) will be a better day.

Ian videos update

Free upgrade!

My most recent business trip to Los Angeles spanned over a weekend. After a long week in training, a delayed flight, hungry, and given a car location that is at the farthest corner of the lot, I was not in a good mood until I saw the car they gave me: a convertible Mustang! All those days of suffering in a Kia or a Ford Focus has finally paid off!

I was fortunate enough to have some time over the weekend to enjoy a ride around town, it must have looked weird to other people to see a slightly overweight geeky guy NOT wearing sun glasses driving in this thing...

From Misc Photos

Sears Portraits

We received a gift certificate for Sears portraits studio (thanks John & Karen!), and since we've got family in town, decided to get everyone there to get some pictures taken.

Funny pictures and videos

Some more funny pictures of Ian.