January 11, 2016
For the new blog readers, to the daily diatribe, on my website.. (By way of enlightenment, since June 2000 I have owned ” The Downtown Bed and Breakfast,” ) Greetings & salutations to all. Enjoy! Fresh, faithful discourse every day. OFF ! We go.
I commenced, started, and otherwise have been composing and creating letters to a friend, in fact since 2005 I started with pen and paper, sending thru the postal system daily letters. Hence the name the daily diatribe. Now moving into the new century, I havet started posting recently the daily goings on. In response, everyone says “you should write a book,” well here it is, in very small increments. The narratives about and all are factual! just what goes on here at the bnb, focusing on broad spectrum minuscule of my life and those inn it.
We have a balmy +8 degrees, that would be 46 degrees in the other scale. It is reminiscent of England in the spring. Not having been to England in the spring in this lifetime. I may be picking up vibrations’ of another time and place. I have restricted my time traveling this week as I seem to be getting enough sleep. I may even, I am so bold to say, be aware of what day it is, perfectly. At present, my feet are firmly planted on terra firma in the big little city here in the Maritimes. It is a mild, day and waiting for the snow to fall in two days time. The crimson alerts, have been sporting the weather pages for days now.
I had a guest inquire as to a date in February for a curling tournament. This is not unusual. What was the deal breaker was, and this is the first, the room has to have a desk, in case, the daughter needed, to write. Yet another first, in a long line of them. In the historical and olden days we had to be licensed by the dept. of tourism for the province, we had to have 25 things in the room, including a desk. Other items included a bed, right down to wooden hangers, in the closet, and when inspected they looked!
The province has decided in its wisdom to move away from keeping tabs on us, as the internet makes it way thru the tourism business. (FYI please book on my website and not on a booking site, they are really expensive! A rant for another time. My dear and gentle readers of old, have heard it all here before, but for the new and improved web people! Stay tuned, don‘t touch that dial).
The guests mother and daughter, bless them, wrote directly thru the reservation system I maintain, AND my trusty crack computer team I hasten to add, to MOI and asked for the room with twin beds. In the correspondence, it pointed out to me that the reservation system (actually have several of them) on the website was stating that there was nothing available. Thus the day was spent banging and cracking updating the systems that let guests find me. I have been told that Mercury the planet of communicating is retrograde, therefore, if there if there is a hard way of doing it, it will be done until the 21st of the month. I had done this before the holiday season just past, when exhausted, and obviously did not upgrade well, but now sitting “up write,” plowed away at it and I have to say faster. It is called experience.
“Once we except our limits, we can go beyond them” Albert Einstein & Moi.