Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts

Sunday, November 28, 2010

America's Best Inn isn't.

Good Morning, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is a fractal by Ron Venable that he titled Enjoy Thanksgiving. He used to share these and other fractal images a lot before his previous computer died. These days, we keep what we can for him.

I mentioned yesterday that I would talk about a motel we stayed at on the way down to South Carolina. I should say that I'm not going to detail all the problems I saw there- But I will say that if I had tried to get away with as shoddy a cleaning job as was done there, I would have been chewed out- and rightly so.

If you are near the border between North and South Carolina, don't stay at this place if you have a choice. One of the first thing I personally noticed was the rule list.

There was nothing wrong with the list in itself, but a number of the rules were quite unnecessary- unless there had been trouble at the place in the past.

I also noticed a hand-written sign proclaiming a 90% sanitation rating and a no refund notice. In themselves, these would have been nothing to worry about either, though they do raise questions.

However, whoever wrote the sanitation rating sign didn't look at the rooms. There were used grounds in the coffee maker, the towels had stains on them, the toilet was running- which is a pretty good indication that something needs to be looked at, and the microwave oven was sitting on the floor rather than at least on a table where the client could use it easily.

There was also a problem with the curtains; They weren't quite wide enough to cover the windows. The front grill on the air conditioning unit had been broken in the past, and it could be seen where the plate to a chain lock had been removed from the door.

I do have to say that these people did give a small room safe and card key locks on the door. However, considering everything else I saw, I'm not sure I would store valuables in the said safe.

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

Saturday, July 31, 2010

A Paper and a Rant

Good Morning, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Blue Tree. I made it while searching for my 'rainbow effect'- or rather, that's what I thought to do. However, I forgot to add the second layer. Still, it is pleasant in an alien sort of way.

I never did finish my end-of-term last night. However, I did remove one of the games that I've wasted far too much time with from my ready-access list so that won't prove to be such a temptation. I have the vast majority of the material I need for the completion right in front of me, so I will finish it up today.

Have I ever mentioned how much I despise spammers? It's bad enough that the fools think I need 'male enhancement products', or 'dating services'- which more often than not are thinly-veiled offers of porn or solicitations for prostitution. Now these spammers have gotten into offering what they say is medicine from Canada- and they've started using the e-mail addresses of a couple of my friends to do it. It is amusing, though; These same spammers have also pretended to send such mails to me- From fictional characters that I created for a couple of MUDs that I'm active in. Spamming activities are really pretty pathetic.

That, Gentle Readers, is my rant for the day.

Until we meet...