These were prices at the Venetian convention center in Las Vegas for wireless internet access. Luckily, our conference had prepaid access for all of the attendees. The worst part about these prices is that the access was the most unreliable that I have ever used. Most times that I tried to check email, I would just close my computer in complete frustration. It would probably make more sense to setup your own T1 line into the convention center than to pay for 2 days of internet access.

I woke up this morning to the beautiful sounds of my carbon monoxide alarm. I was certain that I didn’t want to die, so immediately jumped up to investigate. I quickly put some clothes on and opened my front door to make sure that I had good oxygen coming in. The alarm was reading 97, which seemed like a lot. I didn’t have anything on that would actually create CO, but I thought that some below or next to me could be creating a lot. I called my landlord to alert him and ask for help — never heard back from him.

Eventually I read the notices on the back of the detector which said that one chirp every 30 seconds means that there is some kind of error, not an actual emergency. Then I looked up more information online concerning the problem; perhaps it was telling me that error code 97 was occuring. It turns out that I read upside down fairly naturally, and it actually was notifying me of Lb or Low battery. New batteries quickly remedied the problem. Clearly this was better than dying of CO poisoning.