Friday, September 21, 2007

Business Travel - A template

Day 1 (Really night 1 followed by day 1) -

Sleep - A good night's rest, the covers are always tucked in too far to be comfortable, there is quite a bit of kicking done to get them close to ok. The AC is never turned to the right temperature to be comfortable, but it's not uncomfortable enough to get up and tune it.

Eating - Whatever is presented is eaten. The food is always good, and it all gets eaten.

Day 2 -

Sleep - The top blanket is gone, the AC is turned up a little, this makes it nice and cool. It takes a little while to get the right mix of pillows set up to sleep on, the feather pillows are much too feathery to sleep on a single one. You wake up several times in the night from turning and getting a blast of air in the face with the bi-pap.

Eating - Food is starting to take it's toll. You are happy to see sandwiches for lunch, if they are offered. Greasy or rich food is eaten only sparingly, you don't want to make yourself sick.

Day 3 -

Sleep - Sleep is difficult. You are tired of sleeping on the feather pillows already. 4 to 6 of them don't seem to be enough to sleep on. The big giant fancy pillows they have don't seem to help. You wish you brought your pillow from home. The BiPap starts driving you crazy as you toss and turn trying to get the pillows right. You consider just getting up at 4am to read something.

Eating - You are tired of eating out. For lunch, the lasanga they offer just doesn't look like it would do you any good, you skip over it and have dry salad and a roll. You eat some very good chicken fingers, but don't take one bite past too many, which is already too many. You skip dessert. It turns out that one sort of too many chicken fingers was too many, you have an upset stomach the rest of the night. (Which doesn't do any good for the fight you are going to have with the pillows that night.)

Any days past the third carry on in the same manner.

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