The cloudy skies kept it dark a bit later than usual this morning and when I arrived to meet the group on the levee, I was the only one there. The streets were a little damp from an earlier sprinkling of rain, and I guess everyone had seen the big clump of green on the radar that was heading our way. Still, it didn't look too bad so I rolled out alone and was met after a couple of miles by Robin, Chris and a couple of other guys. In light of the small group, impending rain and strong winds, we decided to forgo the usual Thursday long ride and instead did the usual shorter ride, which landed me back home in time to catch a ride to work with The Wife. Even so, our little paceline was working pretty hard to maintain 22 mph into that wind on the way back. I'm glad I got in a few miles today, though, because the forecast for the next few days is not looking too good. Lots of rain is expected, but winter temperatures are nowhere in sight. It was nearly 70F this morning. I guess I shouldn't complain too much. I think I'd rather ride in our 70-degree drizzle than in the sub-freezing sleet that a lot of folks get this time of year.
I'm rather miffed right now at the Windham hotel in Boston where The Wife stayed for a few nights earlier this month. The hotel bill was supposed to be charged to the master account for the meeting organization (which I didn't know until yesterday). I had noticed the charge appearing on my online bank transaction report about a week and a half ago, and was expecting that we would get a reimbursement. When I asked The Wife about it last night, she said that there shouldn't have been anything charged to our account at all except for $30 or so. Well, when I checked back, I found that the hotel had charged the room to my account (along with the $30) to the tune of nearly $600. Then, yesterday, they had credited it back to my account (so they had it for about a week). I could live with that, but what really ticked me off was than in-between the debit and the credit, they had charged another $400 to the account, for which, of course, there has been no credit (or explanation). Typical Hotel BS. I swear, I think they do this stuff on purpose. So the bottom line is that they completely screwed everything up, have had up to $1,000 of mine that they never should have had, and now we're going to have to get the whole mess straightened out ourselves. It was a small miracle that it didn't overdraft my bank account, mainly because I had been holding off on paying some (overdue) bills until I saw the expected reimbursement. Geez. At this rate we'll be eating Thanksgiving dinner at McDonald's - from the super value menu.
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