I am in a hotel

I've checked out the minibar and free bathroom products. Watched SkyNews for a bit. It's really not as much fun on your own.

There's a box of tissues on the bedside table which worries me slightly.

It's in case you have a SNIFFLE.

On the end of your penis.

I thought as much. I'm ordering room service now. Steak Hache is a burger right?

Do i tip room service?

Yes

what country are you in?

Tip with gum

tipping is not a universally accepted practice

UK - how much?

I've never had room service before. Well not since I got married, ho ho ho...

I am drunk on the minibar.

careful now, they're easy to fall off of on account of their mininess

for the UK my instinct would be no but maybe a britisher should answer

definitely don't tip the minibar

in either sense of the word

which law of physics goes "if you push something hard enough it will fall over"?

it's like 4th law of thermodynamics or something

dude you suck at liveblogging it's been like 5 minutes since yr last post

WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE

It's not one of those electronic minbars that register automatically - there's a form to fill in. Guess how much the peanuts are?

Sorry, I was trying to work the TV.

no tipping. you'll look silly when he drops the twenty pees as you desperately try to effortlessly transfer them from your palm to his.

Yeah, and I don't want to look silly when I already look a bit sad and pathetic having my dinner in my room like a johnnynofriends.

C'mon, have some fun with it: when they come to deliver the food, try and act like you would if you were a lone-wolf hitman in a movie, waiting to meet with the English mob boss you're pretty sure is planning to double-cross you. If there is anything I have learned from watching movies, it is that if you act like this, members of the hotel staff will want to sleep with you.

OK, I'm gonna look out of door really quickly when they knock and pull them in really quickly - as if someone is after me OK? And then I'll say "were you followed?"...

I am also in a hotel.

Not the Hotel Du Vin in Newcastle?!

noh, although I have been in the Malmaison.

(I should have said yeah..

my name is luna
I live upstairs from youse
let's have a drink...)

Dover.

This is very nice, but my advice would be too book a table at the bistro 'cos they get very busy and then you have to have room service and it gets complicated with tips and everything.

I stayed in a B & B in Dover once while waiting for a ferry. We had a full english breakfast at 4 o'clock in the morning. Which is too early tbh.

yeah did that.

Although I was one of two people in the restaurant.

Newcastle is wayyyy more happening than Dover.

It's not far from the Sage/ Baltic centre, right?

That was an xpost. I have not had breakfast at 4:00 am in Dover. It was 08:20 this morn. And I daresay it will be tomorrow morn.

It could be anywhere. It's definitely by the quay though because the taxi driver said it was and we came past the luminous bridge thing.

OK my Chicken Grand Mere with pomme puree is here and looks delicious. I tipped the room service lady. But I don't think i gave her enough. Why do us Brits find it so hard?

Room service tipping: errr, you just write "$4" or whatever on the tip line on the receipt. Unless they do strange things in the UK.

So I was just in a hotel the other day, and I went down to the gym one evening to use the elliptical. There was a 20 something guy down there, and he spent pretty much the entire time I was on the elliptical using the free weights and staring at himself in the mirror. Creepy. Can't say I've ever seen someone that blatently watch themselves in the mirror at my home gym.

Was he ripped? Because to be honest if I lifted a bunch of weights and got ripped, I would totally stare at myself in the mirror while lifting and think things like "whoah, dude, look at that thing on my arm, it's like a real big-guy MUSCLE!" (Or maybe he was just checking his form.)

maybe he was just checking his form.

yah basically when i'm fuckin w/freeweights i'm watching to make sure my arms are straight where they need to be & bending where they need to be etc

i imagine his mindset was similar?

Oh, come up with a logical explanation for it! I don't think he was overly ripped, but I was doing my best to ignore him and watch a crappy sitcom on the TV.

tip is often already included in the room service bill

I'm in a Menzies hotel in Swindon.

I'm trying not to mentally compare it with what I fondly imagine the Hotel du Vin in Newcastle to be like.

Stuck in hotel on business trip, reading "The Myths of Innovation," fighting a nosebleed, a cold, and a case of windburn. Wheee.

Also, I can't turn the a/c unit on to just run a fan, meaning that I don't get the white noise I need to sleep at night.

The free food here is nice, tho.

Leave this site open all night --

http://simplynoise.com/

breakfast room had a really impressive per-capita number of caterwauling brats today

I’m staying in a Hampton Inn on the outskirts of Columbus and it’s the big game today

Sorry not the big game. The Game.

Also can we chuckle at the cheeky sportswriter who decided to start a piece about the C vs DT matchup with “The Skinny:”?

goodbye, Columbus, goodbye