Killing time in hotel rooms. Or out of them.

Rosstafari

Rosstafari

Hello, this is Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer
So I'm down here in Orlando doing some training for jetBlue. I'm on week two, and the boredom is starting to set in. I know there are plenty of you on here that have years to decades of living out of hotels, so I'm appealing to the JC community for advice on what to do to pass the time.

So far I've tried:

1. Drinking.
2. Making a game out of seeing how close I come come to my $38 per diem without going over. I don't think they've always appreciated 47 cent tips, but don't hate the player -- hate the game.
3. Drinking.
4. B movie marathons. Logan's Run was good to me. Starship Troopers 2 was not.
5. Mastu-- uh, I mean, drinking.
6. Exercise. This has actually turned out pretty well, as I've already lost 3-4 pounds, despite the increase in my alcohol consumption.
7. Taking the hotel shuttle to everywhere it goes. Turns out that Walmart here is, unsurprisingly, the same as Walmart everywhere else.
8. Facebooking people who I haven't spoken to in years. Most probably would've preferred my continuing to not speak to them.
9. Laundry by hand, just because it took up more time than using the machine.
10. Sitting in on the various meetings and mini-conventions that've come through here. I've already learned the grievances of the local union (but no idea what particular line of work they represented), seen the latest in heart stints, and have discovered exciting new ways to reinvest my retirement money with a group of New Yorkers here for one of those timeshare-esque deals.
11. Did I mention drinking?
12. JetCareers.com. Oh, the humanity.

I'm on a pretty tight budget, so I can't just head over to Disneyworld to pick a fight with Mickey -- unless I hop on the bus. Wait, that might be idea #13.

Ideas? Suggestions? Help a brother out here; I'm losing my mind.
 
I was able to pass time since I was, at the time, consistently enrolled in at least 3 classes.

Couple that with trying to catch up with the local JC'rs in the area, there was always something to occupy my time besides just watchint TV or being on the interweb.
 
get your meditate on! seriously, quiet solitary hotel rooms are great for that.

crossword puzzle books.

uhmmm other than that, you covered it. welcome to my life!
 
i feel your pain....i'm about day 50 into a 108 day TDY....and my hotel doesn't even have a shuttle...luckily i drove to this tdy...

i'm the exact opposite as you on the per diem, i'm on 66/day per diem and my game is to spend my daily per diem on food in a week....i have also lot some weight because of it :bigthumb:

i ordered a hdmi cable so i could hook my laptop up to the tv to watch movies, that's a plus...stream netflix....i found a movie theater here that my crew partner and i go to all the time...it's called the alamo draft house.....movie + beer + food together = ultimate win
 
ian said:
i feel your pain....i'm about day 50 into a 108 day TDY....and my hotel doesn't even have a shuttle...luckily i drove to this tdy...

i'm the exact opposite as you on the per diem, i'm on 66/day per diem and my game is to spend my daily per diem on food in a week....i have also lot some weight because of it :bigthumb:

i ordered a hdmi cable so i could hook my laptop up to the tv to watch movies, that's a plus...stream netflix....i found a movie theater here that my crew partner and i go to all the time...it's called the alamo draft house.....movie + beer + food together = ultimate win
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ian i am VERY glad you have discovered and received the gospel of the alamo drafthouse. it is indeed EPIC win. the one downtown in austin is damn awesome.
 
Loiter in parking lots.

People do it around here.

Even at Walmart.

I think its what people do when they have nothing else to do.
 
My toilet keeps running, so I'm trying to get the timing down. It doesn't seem to have a pattern...but I haven't been paying too much attention.

-mini
 
TXaviator said:
ian i am VERY glad you have discovered and received the gospel of the alamo drafthouse. it is indeed EPIC win. the one downtown in austin is damn awesome.
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it is the best business ever...before we would go to the palladium imax for movies....until we discovered the draft house......my flying partner wants to open up one in california, i told him i'd go in it with him from Dover :rotfl:

it's a genius idea....a comedy club next to a movie theater that serves beer and food....the profit margin has to be INSANE
 
TXaviator said:
ian i am VERY glad you have discovered and received the gospel of the alamo drafthouse. it is indeed EPIC win. the one downtown in austin is damn awesome.
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I too have experienced the awesomeness of the alamo draft houses, they are truly awesome. :cool:
 
We have something similiar in Anchorage called the Bears Tooth. Awesome pizza+local beer+$3 movies=win:rawk:
 
Welcome to my life sir, i feel your pain. All I can say is thank you, crew cars,alcohol, netflix and wii with tiger woods golf
 
What I wouldn't give for the Drafthouse right now. Somehow, knocking cold ones back in my room while watching Hulu isn't quite the same.

Crosswords. I like that. Or at least I will until they make me feel dumb.

I'd loiter in the Walmart parking lot, except I'm a little uneasy with the folks I've seen at the one I tried. Plus, it's a 2 mile walk. With my luck, I'd try shortcutting back and stumble into the one of Orlando 9,000 ponds housing a gator.

Meditation's an all right idea, although that whole thing about clearing your mind isn't quite as comforting once you realize that there wasn't much in there to begin with.
 
3:27 seconds is what I've got so far. 2 out of 3 times now that's been the time, though the 3rd could have been "timer error".....or all 3 could have been.

See how fun this is? Sleeping with that is going to be even funner.

-mini
 
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Though there seems to be a black hole in Memphis, which is why I'm sitting in my hotel room today instead...
 
ian said:
i found a movie theater here that my crew partner and i go to all the time...it's called the alamo draft house.....movie + beer + food together = ultimate win
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There's a place here in *gasp* Salt Lake *gasp* called Brewvies that does the same thing. And people say Utah has no culture! :beer:
 
Rosstafari said:
So I'm down here in Orlando doing some training for jetBlue. I'm on week two, and the boredom is starting to set in. I know there are plenty of you on here that have years to decades of living out of hotels, so I'm appealing to the JC community for advice on what to do to pass the time.

So far I've tried:

1. Drinking.
2. Making a game out of seeing how close I come come to my $38 per diem without going over. I don't think they've always appreciated 47 cent tips, but don't hate the player -- hate the game.
3. Drinking.
4. B movie marathons. Logan's Run was good to me. Starship Troopers 2 was not.
5. Mastu-- uh, I mean, drinking.
6. Exercise. This has actually turned out pretty well, as I've already lost 3-4 pounds, despite the increase in my alcohol consumption.
7. Taking the hotel shuttle to everywhere it goes. Turns out that Walmart here is, unsurprisingly, the same as Walmart everywhere else.
8. Facebooking people who I haven't spoken to in years. Most probably would've preferred my continuing to not speak to them.
9. Laundry by hand, just because it took up more time than using the machine.
10. Sitting in on the various meetings and mini-conventions that've come through here. I've already learned the grievances of the local union (but no idea what particular line of work they represented), seen the latest in heart stints, and have discovered exciting new ways to reinvest my retirement money with a group of New Yorkers here for one of those timeshare-esque deals.
11. Did I mention drinking?
12. JetCareers.com. Oh, the humanity.

I'm on a pretty tight budget, so I can't just head over to Disneyworld to pick a fight with Mickey -- unless I hop on the bus. Wait, that might be idea #13.

Ideas? Suggestions? Help a brother out here; I'm losing my mind.
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I travel a lot for business so I understand---

1. Yes
2. Act like a big spender while doing that-
3. Yes
4. Starship Troopers 3-Zardoz if doing 1 and 3.
5. Both
6. Sure--try 5 with 6 for fun.
7. Have real fun with this and play bus roulette--get off at some random location and try to find your way back to the Hotel while stopping at every watering hole along the way.
8. Post pictures of random people for effect--or photoshop yourself with famous people so others don't think you're bored.
9. Ok-make sure you hang your clothes on a line out the hotel window (unless you are on the first floor). For effect, wear a hairnet while doing.
10. Make sure you look like you naturally belong to the group. For effect wear a hairnet while doing.
11. Yes-at this point hairnets should be a given.
12. Spending too much time online will make you go blind.... unless you are wearing a hairnet.
 
When I first started flying, a very wise man told me, "A person who doesn't know how to fill time has no business being a pilot."

For your ideas, I am proud of all of you.
 
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