Sitting in my hotel room right now on a pretty long layover - 24 hours. Tomorrow's is longer 28 hours. Will have to see what that one will be like.

Now don't get me wrong I do not mind a longer layover here and there, to be honest I like a longer layovers over a minimum crew rest layover for sure.

Of course a long layover in a nice place is better! Like Hawaii - now that layover could never be too long.

There is a plus side to not having a lot of long layovers, by not having a bunch of long layovers, I do more flying which gets my hours up there and done faster in the month and then I get more days off to do other stuff, like visit the places I want to, hang out with my friends or work on my other projects. So needless to say there is a bit of give and take there...

The reason this layover is so long is because yesterday my 3 flights were in they day - my report time was 1200 EST and we flew until about 2100 EST. Tonight my report time is 2010 EST and we do a red eye turn and get back at about 0530 EST.

So this time is pretty much necessary to switch over your sleep/wake pattern without turning into a crazed zombie.

Same for tomorrow - when getting in that early in the morning and then having to switch back over to flying again during the day that would be CRAZY.

So gotta find a way to entertain myself while at the hotel. It is my favourite hotel in our network. Sadly, our contract is up with this hotel at the end of the month and we will be moving to a new one.

Now even though this has been my favourite hotel it is not in the best location. It does however have the best beds, best shower, nicest sheets and is set up like a suite so you have a separate bedroom which is great when you have to go to bed really early and there are people/kids running up and down the halls.

Back to keeping myself entertained; the TV has been on in the background, been catching up on some of my blogroll and podcasts. I have been a bit behind in both. But for the last hour I have been a bit distracted by the TV.

I have the TV on SPIKE¹ and UFC is showing something called (to the effect of) «Most Amazing Knock Downs I & II» - damn I love spandex (on the right guys!). Thanfully the «tubby» guy on right now is not wearing the tighty-spandex shorts.

Well it is getting close to time to start getting ready and all that stuff so since I really don't have much else to say, this is it!

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