$10 Cashews
I just paid $10 for a small tin of cashews. There’s only two places on the planet where something like cashews could go for $10: an airport & a hotel. If you guessed that I’m in a hotel, you sir, have just won the grand prize.
I don’t feel too bad. I almost opened one of the $5 bottle of water just because I was so damn thirsty and got tired of going & back for to fill a tiny hotel glass from the sink. However, I realized an easier solution was just fill the coffee pot with water & use that as a water pitcher. Figure that $5 saved knocks half the price of the cost of cashews, and suddenly it ain’t such a bad deal after all. (Especially when you’re starving.)
Tomorrow I’m going to head off to the SES conference in the morning. There a few mornings sessions on Blogs & RSS that should be interesting. This is my first non-geek conference (read OSCON) so it’ll be interesting to see how publishers & marketers are thinking about the whole blogsphere. Always good to hear what your customers have to say.

August 9th, 2005 at 9:06 am
It may not be technical, but it still sounds pretty geeky. I think you need to face the fact that if YOU are at a conference, it’s probably for geeks of one species or another.
August 13th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
how much were the local whores?