After checking my email this morning, my browser defaulted to a webpage that featured a story about tiny hotel rooms, complete with photos. Some of the rooms were so tiny that I am sure that I would get claustrophobic trying to sleep in one! One featured platform beds in some renovated drain pipes. That’s a novel idea indeed, but it only had a bed in it! What about temperature control? One of the hotels was in an airport and had no bathroom, saying that the customer could use the restrooms in the airport. I guess those folks aren’t supposed to need a shower or bath! And I had heard about the Japanese hotels where the rooms are only slightly bigger than a casket; this article had photographs of the rooms. Those rooms put me in mind of a sleeping berth in a sleeper car in a train.
Well, those are all novel ideas, but I’ll tell you this – give me a standard hotel room, complete with fancy bedroom sets that include a dresser and night stands, and a real bathroom with a shower in it! When I travel, I need room to stretch, and I don’t want to have to wait in line with a with a bunch of strangers to use a bathroom in the middle of the night!
I think it is amazing how much money people spend on trying to buy the absolute best acne treatment! I can remember how many different products that my kids used when they were going through their teenage years. I can’t say that any one over-the-counter acne product worked any better than another. Even going to the doctor and being put on antibiotics wasn’t any help at all! And the research goes back and forth on whether diet has an effect on acne. I’m glad I’m not a teenager anymore!
My uncle Jeff is finally retiring from his job at the bank next month. Aunt Margie is planning a big retirement party for him. I know how much he loves cao cigars, so I’m planning on ordering him a few from a website that I found that sells them. And I think that I’ll give him a gift card from the website so he can buy more down the road, too. After all of the aggravation that he’s been through working for that bank, he deserves a good cigar!
My wife likes to bemoan the fact that as men age, they look distinguished, while women simply look old. I’ve noticed that every month she has at least two different new wrinkle creams on the bathroom vanity! I think that she still looks terrific, but I can tell that she is starting to fight the unbeatable foe – old age. My father used to always say “Getting old is not for sissies!” Truer words were never spoken!
Do you remember all of the big hullabaloo that happened when diet pills with ephedra were banned a few years ago? Apparently even though these products helped people to lose weight, it increased the risk of strokes and heart attacks to a dangerous degree. And yet people still try to buy it illegally! I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if what people think is ephedra is really a counterfeit drug that is nothing but ground up drywall.