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Hotels can be dull dull dull. So, I amused myself trying to find some art in my room. Heh, fun times 🙂

I’m happy to say that I only seem to watch crap TV when I’m on business travel. I’ve posted a couple of those crazy info commercials before, but this one today takes the cake.

Today’s photo comes from a half-hour infomercial on Comedy Central (I think), which I stumbled on while I was ironing this morning. It was an infomercial featuring a televangelist pitching “Miracle Spring Water”. Apparently, you can call and get this stuff, follow the instructions, and it will help you get money.

Seriously. The quote was “God knows where all the money is, and we can help you find it.”

I couldn’t make this up.

As I predicted, there was a problem with my reservation when I arrived at the airport this morning. [I swear that I will stop obsessing about this!] Yes, even though USAirways, United, United.com, and American Express told me that I could check in with EasyCheckin at the airport, the colorful kiosk quickly tossed me to a United Representative.

So I waited in line. The representative found my reservation, and then told me that I didn’t have a ticket. I was ready for that and provided the ticket number. ‘Oh, this isn’t a valid ticket number.’ ‘Yes it is, both United and USAirways gave me this yesterday.’ ‘Hmmm, well that’s odd…oh there it is.’

Does everybody get this when they fly a codeshare? No, of course not.

My beef is simple. Everybody I spoke with over the past two days has told me that the ticket number is missing from my reservation record…SO WHY DOESN’T SOMEBODY FIX THE F’ING RECORD?!?

I 100% guarantee you that I will have problems checking in on my return flight. I’m at my wits end.

The day started off so promising. I awoke to a cool fog (finally). I had some very productive meetings this morning. I had a yummy BLT for lunch.

And then the United-USAirways duo crapped on my day. Too tired to talk about it…but suffice it to say that I was on the phone FOUR TIMES with United, TWO TIMES with USAirways, and TWICE with my travel agent. They all pointed fingers at each other. And in the end…I didn’t get my problem solved. I didn’t even figure out what when wrong so that I can watch for it in the future.

So to my friends on the customer service lines, I dedicate tonight’s photo…from Alcatraz…where everything is covered with poop.

[This one’s for you, bobgirrl…bacon photo ahead.]

Another record high temp today, albeit another “nothing to write home about” record. We reached a record 83 degrees today, while our neighbors in San Jose and San Rafael set records at 104. Show offs.

But this heat reminded me of frying bacon. And bacon reminded me of my all-time favorite BLT in San Francisco…the non-descript Sandwich Gourmet shop on California Street across from the Bank of America building. The couple who run this place have been there for 30 years they tell me. It just a little regular spot for lunch.

Back to the heat.