OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA, LIFE GOES ON.

Doesn't it seem that the world is slightly off kilter these days? Maybe it's just me in my own little world, I dunno? It started with someone swiping my doormat. I didn't tell you, but about a month before that, I ordered some special Korean Chili Garlic Sauce for a salmon recipe I got from a local restaurant. It took me forever to find the sauce online. UPS delivered it but by the time I got home from being out of town, someone had stolen it. I can just imagine the look on the crook's face when they opened it up and probably said, "WTF is this shit?"


Anyway, last Friday my absentmindedness struck again. I left my pillow in the hotel room. Being a regular, I figured for sure, without a doubt, like no sweat, I'd get it back. I called the front desk and no one had turned it in. Now I can't imagine what anyone would do with a used, well-worn pillow with a yellow-checked pillowcase? What could the maids have been thinking?


I checked back in on Tuesday and still, the pillow had not surfaced. Tonight, my dependable front desk friend told me the pillow didn't turn up. She said it *may* even be in the same room being used by someone. Geez, when she put it *that* way, the more I think about it, the less I want my pillow back. Feeling a little disappointed, I got back to my room, fumbled with the key card as always (do those things ever work on the first swipe?), and opened the door to a furnace. Lucky me, the air conditioner wasn't working and it was about 100 degrees in there. I walked back to the front desk and had my friend follow me back to my room. I asked her if they had planned to convert my room into a sauna and forgot to tell me about it. She said she'd have maintenance look at it tomorrow and, oh by the way, they're sold out and I can't change rooms.


Frustrated once again, I turned to my saving grace. My computer. Time to blog. {Click} {Click}. Nothing. No high-speed internet. Hmmm. How about the wireless? {Click} {Click}. Nope. I called my front desk friend and told her I had no internet service. She said she'd 'reset' me. If she did, it didn't work. So I resorted to the phone modem. {Click} {Click}. Nothing. No dial tone. I stared at the phone ready to throw it through the window. I was fast running out of options. Hmmm. I looked around the room and found another phone. {Click} {Click}. Unbelievable. I got a connection. Blogged some and went down to do my 2-mile treadmill run at 1:30 am.


By then, there was another front desk person at the helm. I told him I was still having trouble with the internet and he said he'd 'reset' me. I did my run and came back to my room. {Click} {Click}. No high-speed internet. So here I sit typing this in on an old-fashioned phone modem. Totally frustrated by the little things once again. Life on the road sucks. I'm ready to go home.


But at least the night wasn't a total loss. I got to see a reprise of Sum 41 singing "Pieces" on the Leno repeat show. Great song. Check it out. And send me some good karma while you're at it.