In the end I called reception to send up a maintenance man to show me how to switch on my lights (turn the little knob the wrong way until it feels like you're breaking it) and find the DVD player (pull out the fake drawer until it feels like you're breaking it). After he left I realised I should probably have tipped him too. Then I ordered room service and gave the guy an enormous tip before I realised that they had already added a tip to the bill. Tried to put a DVD on, realised all the DVDs I'd brought with me only work in the UK. Sat on the floor and cried. Hate business travel, hate hotels, hate travelling alone. Then watched Stargate: Atlantis and The Ghost Whisperer, which are two separate programmes that should merge - Jennifer Love Hewitt in a nightdress that is supposed to be an actual dress, sent into space to a watery space world full of dead people. Then sleep.
Task for today: give speech to 250 people on topic of me and my book. Wish me luck...
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I've solved the problem of not knowing when to tip people in hotels - I don't tip any of them, ever. I know this doesn't do anything to combat the stereotypical image of tightwad Scots, but I just find the whole thing too complicated.
Good luck today. You'll be fine - they wouldn't be there if they weren't interested. Besides, I'm sure more than 250 people read your blog. Just think of it like blogging, except verbally. Or something.
Yeah really GOOD LUCK with your speech. Even though I don't actually know you I reckon you'll be just brilliant! You are in print and I'm sure you are in person.
p.s. at least you know your subject better than anyone else in the world!
Yes, region 1 vs region 2 DVD's are a headache. I'd love to have a DVD of Blackpool, for example, but, although they've shown a butchered version on BBC Canada (gotta have 15 minutes of commercials), the show is only available in Region 2 format. Our next DVD player will be universal..
I take it they haven't put you up in the Royal York, then? That's the only hotel I've slept in in Toronto and I don't recall any problems with the lights. Didn't try any DVD's.
Where, oh where did you speak? I saw a positive review of GBB in Leah McLaren's column in yesterday's Globe and Mail (now *there's* a woman with issues; no bad reflections on your book, mind).
Marie, it all sound very miserable. Fortunately, us Canadians are a very friendly folk, so hopefully your present situation will improve tremendously. Are you going to meet any of your long time blog readers? Hope all goes well. Enjoy hearing about your adventures, even if it is with cheaply built hotel room interiors.
Errr... I'm assuming that you have your MacBook with you since you are blogging? In which case, simply pop the DVD into the MacBook's drive and DVDPlayer will launch.
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Nope - using the hotel computer. But that's OK, I'm too busy now to be watching films (or blogging much) so it doesn't really matter. But I will remember for next time!
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