.. title: Strange weekend .. slug: P162 .. date: 2004/02/22 15:14 .. tags: .. category: .. link: .. description: .. type: text .. author: .. en: .. priority: .. updated: 2004/02/22 15:14 .. url_type: I am powerless. I mean, I have no power. I mean I have no electricity! It seems I forgot to pay a bill (although I do have the latest one, and it says I owe nothing), and the power guys came friday and shut it off. No big deal, I can pay it on monday, but what happens in the weekend... well, I am not going to let a USD 12 bill get me annoyed, so I decided to move to a hotel for the weekend. Mind you, a cheap hotel, but it's clean, has cable tv and breakfast is included. And **someone else** changes the sheets for clean ones. So, I did. What do you know, the hotel is full of interesting people one meets over breakfast. And I have the right way to get a conversation rolling: Me: Where are you from? Tourist: Colombia/Mexico/Brazil/Netherlands/Whatever. How about you? Me: I live 5 blocks from here, but I think they cut my electricity by mistake, and am staying here for the weekend. You can, I suppose, imagine where that goes. Coming tomorrow or next day, a picture of the hotel's wall-embedded TV remote. You won't believe it.