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Cyrano Jones ([personal profile] cyrano) wrote2002-09-10 07:34 pm

You were right--I was gone.

I've been very industrious today, or at least I've gathered lots of information.
Found out that I think I can take off early for the training thing so as to have a day to spend with family.
Found out that the rooms at the hotel have dataports, and ironing boards and irons, and check in time is three pm, and there's an indoor pool and a hot tub and a weight room.
Found out my roommate's name is John Ostler, and he works at the spiffy new Denver airport. (Although I suspect that since it's been ten years it's no longer so spiffy and new.)
We're about two blocks from the Olympic Village, and about a mile and a half from the International Peace Gardens.
(425 South 300 West for those who know the area.)
Hoping that the actual classes are at someplace called Clark Learning Office Center which is about five minutes' walk from the hotel but since they're contracting shuttle busses I am dubious. I am also wondering if there are any nice and not horrifically expensive restaurants, although a $12 per diem is going to limit my extravagances.
I wonder how much social time I'll take and how much time I'll spend just kind of walking around and exploring.
Anyway. It is past my bedtime. I hope it's cooled down enough upstairs that I can go to sleep.

[identity profile] jakejr.livejournal.com 2002-09-10 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
no longer so spiffy and new

DIA is still kind of cool from the outside, driving up to it, but otherwise it's just a plain ol' airport at this point.

[identity profile] esmerel.livejournal.com 2002-09-10 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
except that you have to drive and drive and drive and drive to get to it.

I still like it, except for the driving part=0

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[identity profile] jakejr.livejournal.com 2002-09-10 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah, there is that. And if you go the way the signs suggest you do, you pay toll after toll after toll.

And then there's the fact that every time I go through (and I used to go through there a lot) they seem to be convinced that I'm a drug dealer. Don't ask me why.

But I still love the pinwheels in the train tunnel.

[identity profile] ophanim.livejournal.com 2002-09-10 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
(425 South 300 West for those who know the area.)

You're right near the Gateway. Fun fun.

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2002-09-11 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, we are. From what I've been able to find online, The Gateway is a green square on maps.yahoo but that doesn't seem terribly edifying.