Diary 10/18

Woohoo! I'm back home. FT weekend was rather pleasant this time. I had a productive meeting with my TLC group, a nice dinner with Apryl of cohort 9, the class was reasonably entertaining - I stayed awake, I did not destroyed any hotel rooms (always a plus). The next time I come to Pittsburgh will be to graduate.

One thing I must say, DO NOT stay at the Holiday Inn - North Pittsburgh on McKnight Road. It was the worst hotel I have stayed in EVER! The walls are very thin, the guests are not monitored (there was rampant screaming, banging doors, loud televisions, running down the halls, people trying to open doors, ACK!) The keys demagnetized after every use - meaning the doors would not open and we had to get new keys every time we left the room, housekeeping did not clean the room - not even to take out the trash or leave fresh towels! The workout room was a joke with three pieces of rickety equipment, a water jug with no water and no towels for guests to use (on the positive side it was open 24 hours). Never have I been so disappointed in a hotel stay. The best thing about that hotel was leaving it.

That Sunday when we left there was a football game between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. We went to brunch and everyone had on their Steeler's paraphernalia. Pittsburgh loves their team. I got back to Cleveland around 1pm when the game was just starting. I did not see one person in a Browns shirt. I think we Clevelander's correctly assumed the outcome of the game. We lost 28 to 10. I can only laugh...