The hotel lobby
Posted on May 08, 2003 @ 21:23 in General
So I moved from the Travelodge to the Best Western conference hotel and it has two internet terminals in the lobby. I really need to get a wireless laptop though. Every Starbucks around here offers wireless internet access and why not make the nearest Starbucks your alternative office when you're traveling. Could be worse things.
I noticed something rather disconcerting in the various bookshops I visited so far: they don't carry books by some of my favorite authors. No John Courtenay Grimwood (I had planned on buying his "third arabesk": Felaheen, to read on the road) and neither do they have Michael Marshall Smith. I still have to go see the university bookstore, so who knows...
[update: The UW bookstore had a really decent sci-fi section. Still no MMS, but they did carry Grimwood. I picked up a couple of books from longtime favorites, including Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo, The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul DiFilippo, and The Jazz by Melissa Scott. I really should do a 'favorite cyberpunkish sci-fi authors section'.]
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