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First off, I have to say that Days Inn has been a nice place to stay in the past.  I have had problems in the past, but that was due to local travel taxes that didn’t have anything to do with Days Inn business decisions.

I checked in this afternoon to a Days Inn that looked like it needed some maintenance and cleaning done to the outside of the property.  We dropped off some of our luggage to a room that smelled like a smoking room when I clearly asked for a non-smoking room.  The room was non-smoking, but I’ll explain my hypothesis on the smell later.  We went ahead and left to participate in the evening’s activities.

When we returned, I turned on the television about 15 minutes later to find that every channel except one would black out after being on for 15 seconds.  I called the front desk, and she reacted as if she knew about the problem, and that they “couldn’t figure out the parental control code that a previous customer had set up.”

They relocated us and the television worked, and the smell is better than the previous room, but it still smells like smoke.  We found that some ants were in the sink area about 30 minutes after we had already made ourselves comfortable, and decided to just deal with it until tomorrow, since we luckily had already had reservations at a higher quality hotel.

Christle tried to give the girls a bath, but the tub wouldn’t stop the water, so she ended up helping them take a shower, which was pretty difficult for her to do.  When I got out of my shower a little while later, I grabbed the last of our three towels that were thin and couldn’t have held much more water than one of our washrags that we have at home, when I noticed the reason for the smoke smell.

They don’t keep the smoking and non-smoking sheets and towels separated here!  The smell has penetrated the fibers of these fabrics and cause the entire facility to smell absolutely disgusting.

The only good thing I have to say about this place is that the wireless connection I’m using to post this was the easiest to set up out of every hotel/motel/inn I’ve ever stayed in.  Although, I’m not entirely sure that that is such a good thing.

I waited for inspiration to come to me all month long, and I couldn’t think of anything to write.  I think it’s that fact that has led me to lose sleep last month.  I didn’t use this outlet that I set up to get things off my chest.

Up until last night, Heroes was getting a little dull.  Last night was probably the best episode so far.  There was a little continuity error in there, but all-in-all it was great.

There have been some great strides in solid-state hard drives over the past few months.  Having a history in hard drive data recovery, it looks like that industry may be taking a turn for the worse once these solid-state drives become the standard.  At the rate that the size increases, the odds are that they will be the standard is good within the next 4-5 years.  Instead of physical defects in the platters, our primary worry will be bad currents of electricity.

I got a new phone a few weeks ago.  Christle did, too.  They are pretty cool, and if we can keep from dropping them too often, I doubt that we’ll get tired of them very soon.

A friend of mine from high school passed away on April 21.  Joey grew up down the street from me.  We moved in to that house in April of 1989.  We hadn’t really kept in touch over the years, but it is heartbreaking to see someone I grew up with pass away.  While at the funeral, I found out another classmate of mine died in a car wreck about 7 years ago.  I didn’t know him very well, but I remember that he was the kind of guy who always seemed to be happy.  I remember playing football over at his house with Joey, Chad, Bobby, and a few other guys.  I also found out that a girl I used to “date” in Junior High committed suicide a few months ago.  I don’t like thinking about this.

Christle’s been going over to her parents house a lot this month to get things done for her sister’s wedding.  The knot-tying ceremony is coming up rather quickly, so they’ve been working very hard lately.

I’m excited to finally have the opportunity to visit Schlitterbahn in Galveston in a few weeks.  I’ve almost gotten the park map memorized.

So, I guess April wasn’t so boring.  I wish I had less to write about.  I just need to remember to write when I need to so that I can get it out instead of bottling it all in.