Udaipur: Not Eating Toast and Visiting City Palace

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Udaipur adventures continue!

Working from my hotel last night almost broke me. I was in an important 3 hour meeting and my laptop stopped charging and I needed to present in hour 3. I watched the battery go down to 3% and then just logged off, figuring I may as well just be fired at this point.

I called company support who told me they needed to connect me with the manufacturer and it would take up to 24 hours ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

I Googled computer places and found one I could visit in the morning to buy a cheap one, since carrying around a second laptop is exactly what I need right now.

I had a slight nervous breakdown too.

I went to log back on to use my precious 3% battery to answer an email so important that I was scared to fat finger the response on my phone. Well guess what? The laptop is suddenly charging?

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Udaipur Trip Report Continues!

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I am in love with Udaipur.  I really wish I could spend all day walking around and taking in its beauty.  But work calls and without it, I wouldn’t be here at all.

Last night I got trapped “at” work until 8 pm, which was about 5:30 am my time? India time is off by 30 minutes in addition to the hour difference so I can’t keep track of time.

I went out on my balcony to smoke before sleep. I heard a very low hum that sounded like a call to prayer was about to start. Can’t tell you if I was right because the dogs started going off immediately. Aw.

The video sucks for visual, but it is the audio you want.

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Dear Diary: Hello From Udaipur, India!

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As the title says, I am currently on another adventure, coming at you live from Udaipur, India!  I started planning this one last October.  As always, so many things got changed from my original plans.  Most notable was the length of the trip.  I had initially planned to be gone for five months.  So many real life obstacles came up and eventually I had to settle on just 47 days. Oh no, only a 47 day trip?  How truly tragic.

I am working for 2 weeks and then I am free.

I am currently in Udaipur, which is where this trip is starting.  Udaipur was never on the original itinerary.  Ladakh, India was at the top.  When I pulled out my Lonely Planet India, I saw all the pages I had put post its on when I traveled to India back in 2016.  All were on the pages of the Rajathstan section.  Suddenly I now wanted to go to Rajathstan.  When I first planned the five month itinerary, a full month was to be spent here. As time went on, it got chopped down to two weeks, with 3 cities (Udaipur, Pushkar and Jaipur.)

I flew from JFK to Delhi, by way of Paris.  And unexpectedly, I really went through Paris.  My flight from NYC was so delayed that I missed my connection.  It took off as I was walking through CDG airport looking for my gate in hopes it too was delayed. It was not.  Since Air France only has one flight to Delhi from Paris a day, this meant I got stuck in Paris for 24 hours.

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Las Vegas Extended Version: Let’s Fucking Go!

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Today I woke up at Cosmopolitan in time to watch the sunrise, before going back to bed.  I am personally confused on how I was facing the Rio when I was facing South, but here we are.

Waking up for real, headed right to MY Ultimate X video poker machine.

Arrived at District Donuts 2 minutes late for breakfast. Yeargh. When attempting to put sugar in my coffee, the lid fell off the sugar and a pound landed in my coffee.  Oddly, I never use sugar, so this was just reinforcing that choice.

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Las Vegas: Buffalo Slot Machine HAND PAY and MULTIPLIED ROYAL YAY

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Good morning Las Vegas!  I woke up at California, moving to Cosmopolitan today.  I showered and got dressed.  When leaving the room, I noticed my do not disturb sign was somehow missing so I made my own and went about my day.

I stopped at MY Buffalo at Binions to use my free play.  The card reader is working today and holy shit, I got a handpay?  Holy shit.

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Las Vegas: Bendryll and SLEEEEEEEEP

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Good morning Las Vegas!

Maintenance knocks on my door.  The sink next door is clogged.  Hate people randomly coming into my room when I am not prepared. What if I washed my underwear?  Maintenance dude knocked over my toothbrush haaaaaaaaate.

I am staying at California on a video poker tournament.  I did terrible.  I kept fucking up and missing holds.

I grabbed lunch and had time to shower before my next meeting.  This was a rare treat of ending the day not starving and already showered.

I went to Dunkin Donuts and somehow got a really bad coffee.  This has never happened before in my life.  Why.

Played at Fremont, all the machines here hate me. I had the thought that I have had many times, which is – how do I keep getting comped here when the machines hate me so much that I can’t play anything because I have no money?!

Forced myself to go to Walgreens for Benadryll since I have been ignoring the fact that I am very sick.  This will probably not cure me but will give me an amazing sleep tonight.

I stopped to play Buffalo at Binions on my way back to my room.  The card reader isn’t working so I guess we are broken up?

Burger to go, room and Benadryll and zzzzzzzzzz.

I do want to say that I am posting this 6 months after I wrote it up.  Since then, I took a three week NON WORKING trip to Las Vegas and it really just makes these working trip days seem so short, stressed and boring.  I am sorry I am boring.

Las Vegas: UNICOW!

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Las Vegas trip report day 8.  Good morning Las Vegas!

I wanted to get Dunkin Donuts before work but woke up way too late.  I have not had any one day since I got here where I had normal sleep.  Fortunately, Laperts is open and they have coffee.

Back to my room to work!

Housekeeping came.  I was hoping they would not.  I do not have a do not disturb sign but kind of hoped they simply don’t have housekeeping at all in these (still) Covid times.  She told me I was supposed to check out today.  Nope, Monday.  She asked if she could call the front desk from my room to verify.  Yes.  No one is answering.  “Are you checking out tomorrow?”  No, Monday.  “So tomorrow?”  No, today is Thursday, I am checking out on Monday.  “Do you need towels?”  No thank you.  “So you check out tomorrow?”  I am sorry, there actually is a camera on since I am in a work meeting but I didn’t realize it was feeding to Candid Camera?

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Las Vegas: BUFFALO!

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Las Vegas trip report day 6.

I slept HORRIBLY last night and could not get out of bed this morning.  I missed my opportunity to walk all the way to Starbucks before work and ended up at The Roasted Bean, which I never knew existed.

Me: 2 large iced coffees please!
Her: We don’t have iced coffee
Me: What the fuck?!
Other Her:  We have cold brew
Me: 2 large cold brews please!

I was having such a nicotine fit because I didn’t smoke before coffee.   Had I not been saved by the cold brew, who knows what would have happened to me.

Lost $100 in Dancing Drums.  I really need to stop playing this here.

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