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.

Ginger, I can use round up for some of it, but other spots its in too tight with the other perennials.

I always let them clean hotel rooms, except rare vacation occasions when I'm in the room or in and out all day. But I hate turndown service because I hate coming in and the tv or radio is on and I didn't leave it on. That creeps me out.

I always have them clean. And I'm that horrible person who wants clean towels every day :) To me, it's part of the perqs of being in a hotel. Although this last time, the hotel was offering Starwood points for not getting clean sheets and towels.

I'm still not sure if it was turndown service or something more bizarre that was responsible for me finding the radio blaring salsa music when I returned to my haunted hotel room at 1 a.m.

There is someone playing violin in the hotel room next to mine. Not badly, but still random.