Why would you not let housekeeping in every day? I've never thought about that--they come in however often the hotel says--that's usually at least once a day, more if you're in a mint on the pillow place.

I rarely stay anywhere long enough that I give the hand signal for new towels, but cleaning, making beds, etc? It would never occur to me to reduce it, unless there was some reason I wanted them not in the whole time--but even then, it's not much of a security ploy--I figure that the institution has access to my room any time I'm not there.

Great. Gotta drop my laptop off to be serviced for, like, A DAY. I don't look forward to the separation, but then again--what is my damage? I spent all day shutting down devices that checked my email--I had to turn it off in four different places. The internet isn't going anywhere, just the one devices.

My theory about hotel rooms is that they are intentionally designed to look messy the second you arrive. Similarly hotel towels can't get dry enough for me to use the next day. These days, thogh, I can't recall a hotel replacing the sheets during a stay.

I love the midwives: despite the occasional tragedy, I find it far more soothing than most of my other tv.

It's been an exhausting weekend: family in town, lots of functions, and I picked up an upset stomach at some point in the last 24 hours. So I begged off visiting my folks this afternoon and lay down for a nap, followed by a glass of ginger beer. Not sure it's helped.

This week will involve: a site visit, two doctor's appointments for my mother, and two interviews (one of them with possibly six people!). I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

I really think Call The Midwife might be my favorite show right now.

Also, one time at a hotel, I had to work all day in the room(signed up to go to a conference, got a last-minute deadline), so I got room service and put the Do Not Disturb sign up, and eventually they called to get their tray back.

I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

As you should be!

I keep housekeeping out because that way I don't have to clean up for them. Also, if I've picked through six pillows on the bed to find my one true pillow, I don't want to go through that again.

I am as Dana wrt hotel housekeeping. Anyway, I'm uncomfortable with people in my living space, even a temporary one.

But if I do have them come in, I leave a tip.

Field trip tomorrow!

We're taking a staff trip over to Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve. I've been wanting to visit there since I moved down here. We're having lunch nearby at some cute restaraunt I forget the name of and then a private tour.

It's a good thing that I do my gardening at work, because my "yard" is Japanese Stilt Grass, Honesuckle, Garlic Mustard, and Raspberries.

Has anyone had experience with getting Poison Hemlock on their skin? It exploded last year and is everywhere now and there might be hand-weeding. (Usually when I have to hand-pull Poison Ivy, I wear a long-sleeved shirt and mud gloves, put the vines in a trash bag and the shirt and gloves into the wash twice over and I'm good).

Can you spot treat with Roundup, Julie? You can use the glove-and-sock trick: wear gloves, pull a sock over the glove, wet it with Roundup and apply to the offending plant.

Clean up for the hotel staff? Fair enough, that's an alien concept to me. Just cotching on the corner is such an inherent part of the hotel experience that as long as we're not bumping into each other, I like that they're in and out like brownies.

I have a rogue device on my home network. Something keeps trying to log into my email server, fails, and then gets me locked out of my webmail IP. Five times today, but I've shut all the email clients off as soon as I think I'm clear...IT HAPPENS AGAIN. I've scanned everything for viruses, I'm clean AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING. I'm going beserk.