Tuesday 25th February 2025

Urggh.

Tuesday.

Like most modern hotels, this one does not have windows you can open, so you reply on recirculated air, and have to work out the frankly abstract heating controls to try to make it bearable.

I slept poorly, but lay in to half six, and after freshening up, decided to skip breakfast and coffee.

Instead I went to find the car in the car park, and spent ten minutes wandering about until I found it.

I drove down the ramps, out onto the street, then along the waterfront before turning up the main road which leads, in ten minutes, to the office.

It was dawn, rain had stopped, and driving the Beamer was still fun to drive even in light to medium traffic.

I soon arrived at the office, found a place to park, and walked up the stylish but impractical steps to the entrance, where Rune was waiting.

Up the lift to the top floor, and into the open office where everyone has to hot desk, I get one next to Rune and opposite Frank, and settle down with only a glass of water to drink, for four hours of back to back meetings.

I have vegetables and salad for lunch, but still feel like crap, so after two final meetings, I take my leave and head back to the car, leaving before rush hour, going through the centre and out by the bus station to the hotel, where I found one empty parking space, so take that.

I go to the my room, put up the do not disturb sign, find something to listen to and snooze the afternoon through.

After having a shower, I felt 100% improved, if not better.

Outside, the sun goes down behind the thick cloud and dusk falls, lights shining bright at the Street Food place the other side of the tram tracks.

I am happy enough to look on. I will eat in the hotel again, my body suggesting it was mildly hungry.

Which is good