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Skriven 2009-10-29 01:45:38 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
Ärende: random walk 325
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For reasons that shall remain obscure, I was homeless
tonight. Hotwired a 3-star hotel for $59 ($71 counting
taxes and fees) and was pleased to find it a Hyatt
Place, a most reputable chain of all-suites hotels.
Got my room on the top floor (list price 3x what I
paid) - a living room of maybe 120 square feet and a
bedroom of about the same size - two double beds and
a couch that could easily sleep another person, all
for me. The best part, though, was the Texas Roadhouse
next door, where I had my usual order, more or less:
a steak with two side orders of chili. I'd been tempted
by the early bird special, $8 for a 6-oz shell sirloin,
but for $7 more I could get strip of twice the size, so
I opted for that (could have had the 16, but oddly today
12 seemed enough). Ordered it as rare as possible, and
the waiter leered and said, Pittsburgh? and I replied,
not even that. TR is one of the few places that will do
a steak as ordered: What came, a nice piece of flesh
with pale grill marks on it but otherwise just about raw.
The downside was with no charring at all the onion salt
that they season the meat with sort of took over, so I
ended up scraping it off. The result: beef sashimi,
very nice, extremely tender. The knob of fat on the end
was completely raw, as was the gristle on the edge of
the steak, so I left part of both. Double chili came as
a bowl, topped with chopped red onion and no cheese, just
as requested. Sam Adams went well with.

I'd taken the hotel route instead of trying to sleep in
the airport as I often do because I haven't slept much
lately and needed a good night's sleep. Oddly, despite
the bed being quite comfy in a softish sort of way, I
had a heck of a time and slept only 3 hours (hence this
post). I'll be going back to bed in a few minutes, though
the 24-hr burger station down in the lobby did seem kind
of tempting. If there were a 24-hr beer station as well,
I'd have been there in a heartbeat.

Downside of the hotel, which I hadn't noticed before -
it smells faintly like Carpet Fresh, one of the less
attractive odors as it doesn't imply "cleanliness"
but rather "a feeble attempt at cleanliness."

Upside, which I didn't and won't use - it has a 42"
screen tv, to which there is a box through which I could
- if I chose - hook up the computer, so I could watch
movies or do work with a gigantic monitor.

I could see a family really getting a good deal out of
this place (at 1/3 of list price).

Wondering about going back to TR for lunch tomorrow -
probably won't.

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