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Saturday, 26 November 2022

I woke up extra early, around 5:30 a.m., after going to bed early. So I ought to make it downstairs in time for breakfast this morning. It's nearly 7:45 now, so I'd better get dressed and do that soon. Then I'll wait for David to let me know when to head over to Lake Mary. It takes over an hour to get there, and I want to make it before Alessia needs her nap, so maybe it will be before lunchtime.

Yesterday I called the front desk and asked to have the room "refreshed", so that ought to happen today, hopefully while I'm out. When I complained to the family about this hotel's policy of only providing housekeeping after 3 nights, and then only if requested, I was told all hotels seem to be doing that these days, taking advantage of the pandemic. But of course they don't adjust their rates to compensate. Grrrr. Next time I travel, I told them, I'll simply bring my own accomodations, and while I'll have to clean up after myself, at least I won't have to pay a premium for the privilege. At any rate, I won't stay at this hotel again unless they redecorate. It's stupid in this day and age to not provide available electrical outlets. You'd think it was 1980 or something. Oh, well, at least it's clean and the AC works.

After Breakfast

I did make it down in time to grab a bagel and cream cheese, and a glass of OJ, then grabbed some tea bags to bring back upstairs. So that's done. I think I'll text David and let him know I'm moving around, and ready to come over whenever they're ok with that. OK, that's done. So now I'll just wait to hear from him. I have Christy's address, so no problem with finding them.

In the meantime, I had trouble saving yesterday's journal file, and realized I'd filled up the limited eMMC with a couple of downloads. I moved those files to the SD card, so there's space available now, but I need to remember to avoid saving big files on the internal drive.

I just heard back from David. He said to get there between 11 & 12, so I'll leave here about 10:00. I set my alarm, not that I'm worried about forgetting, but it's a habit. I think I'll plan to stop at Publix and get some flowers to take to Christy on the way, so that should add another 15-30 minutes to my travel time. So I'll leave in about 30 minutes.

The Visit and After

We had a great visit, watching the kids play and chatting on the patio. I didn't stay too long, heading back to Viera about 3 p.m., then got the oil changed in my truck and had it washed & vacuumed. When I got back to the hotel I laid down while listening to a podcast and fell asleep, waking up about 9 p.m., too late to reasonably go eat dinner, but snacked on pretzels and beef jerky so I'll be fine until breakfast. I'm going to go back to bed now since I'm still tired, but before my nap I did make reservations for Monday night in Biloxi again. I'd looked at the map and couldn't see a lot of sense in stretching out my drive to three days, so will just retrace my steps to get home by Wednesday night.

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