Mood: Really Tired.
Music: Nothing at the moment.
Game: "See how much you can remember."
Book: Nothing. Need to find something.
Watching: "Trading Places" on the airplane. "Looking good, Billy Ray!"
Weather: Clear, cool.
Observations on Day 1
- Club World/Business Class on British Airways does not suck.
- The Landmark hotel in London also? Does not suck.
- Paying about $25.00 for internet access from your hotel room for 24 hours, however, definitely sucks.
- Even if you've lived in a city for years, if you go away for 6 years, you get the distinct impression you should know where you are when wander around...and vaguely do...but you get seriously disoriented. It doesn't help when there's "Major Engineering Improvements" going on in the Underground. (Who the hell shuts off the Northern Line?)
- Don't go looking for Chinese food in Chinatown in London on Chinese New Year. Kung Hey Fat Choi indeed.
- Satsuma is still there...and the service still sucks.
- One Zone Tube tickets are now FOUR POUNDS. At two dollars a pound, those are some seriously expensive tickets.
- I still love the feel of one pound coins. Even if they don't buy what they used to.
- Regardless of how hard you try to remain awake, you might end up falling asleep at 8pm, thus occasioning getting up at 4am. Damn.
Major presentation at 3pm GMT. Better get a bit more sleep.
Oh, and Matt? I've read everything Neil Gaiman's ever written. Fabulous.
More tomorrow.
Posted by Glenn at February 18, 2007 08:21 PMI figured you may have, but worth a shot regardless. Since you're in the UK, perhaps some ww2 history by steven ambrose. Or if you're more up for some historical fiction that takes place in the UK/Europe, try Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. If you've not already read them, they should keep you busy for a while. I think the first one is called quicksilver.
Ah well, you've probably already read them. Seems like we probably enjoy much of the same type of book.
Posted by: Matt at February 19, 2007 06:51 AM