The wifi connection is definitely a bit buggy downstairs, so I took a break and headed upstairs to drop a few photos onto Flickr and promise a more detailed set of impressions later.

I just want to say….I need one of these.

How can I get one?

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I’m happy to say that I’ve arrived at Blogher — finally! First, right out of the box, I need to make a correction to my post earlier this week.

Excuse me…

…a spider is crawling across the desk about a foot away from me. A really big one. With interesting markings that I’m not sure I want to parse at this time of night…

Okay, it’s dead now. And cleaned up. Killing it involved taking off a shoe and beating it to death, releasing a rather large amount of poison/venomous looking gut stuff that also needed to be cleaned….

Correction:

The Hyatt that Blogher is at is NOT the same Hyatt less than 2 miles away from here that I stayed at last weekend. It wasn’t till I actually LOOKED at the directions that I figured that out and if I wasn’t sure before I certainly am after killing the spider. There weren’t any spiders in the Hyatt where I was.

I finally got here after almost having to turn back a couple of hours into the drive to take Sticks’ cymbals to him…he left them in the car and didn’t remember that till I was well past Santa Barbara. Fortunately he was able to borrow a set from someone else for his gig tonight or I’d have been even later than I was.

By the time I arrived, there were several groups partying hearty, a frazzled front desk attendant, and several text messages on my phone from friends wondering why the heck I hadn’t called them when I was supposed to leave at noon. It doesn’t take 10 hours to drive north, after all….Not 10, but definitely 7 or so when crises erupt like the cymbals.

Excuse me again…there is a second spider, perhaps a cousin of the first, crawling on my iPod which is about six inches from my elbow.

Okay, it’s dead now, too. I cleaned up the guts but can’t seem to lose the crawly sensation I’m now getting on my legs and arms. I hate when that happens….how do you sleep when spiders are waiting to leap into bed with you?

So…I’m not one of these people that arrives at a hotel and immediately starts criticizing, but the arrival of a couple of really big spiders, the lack of a coffee pot and a basket for the in-room coffee maker, a 7 hour drive that should’ve been much shorter and this unshakeable crawliness has me a bit annoyed. I’m about 2 spiders away from making Housekeeping come up here with a vacuum and decontaminate.

Ugh…let’s hope tomorrow overcomes the spideys and other crawlies.

Photos tomorrow, too!

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