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Louisville Sluggard

As I warned yesterday, short update today, and be aware I'm going to spend most of it bitching.

My plan to catch the total eclipse was: Drive to Louisville (about 7-8 hours), which is outside but close to the path of totality; then, today, drive into Indiana, most of which will experience the full monty.

Well, the plan's holding up so far, and the hotel I picked wasn't price-gouging, and they managed to not "lose" my reservation. So there's that.

The hotel kinda blows, though. My first clue was when my room key didn't open the door. I went to get it fixed. Still didn't open the door.

There's tea in the lobby, which, if you've been following along, maybe you remember is one thing I don't mind paying extra for. However, the provided hot water wasn't hot. If I wanted ice tea, I'd have traveled south instead of west.

The toilet doesn't like to flush, either.

I hope those problems aren't related.

They also put us in a room right across from a massive, military-grade floodlight. I was hoping for an eclipse of that, but no.

On top of which, it was one of those nights: As long as I was up and doing stuff, all I wanted to do was sleep. When I'd try to sleep, my brain insisted on staying awake. I'm not usually one to have trouble sleeping in hotel rooms. I generally like hotel rooms, and I've certainly slept in enough of them.

At this point, I'm going to be so tired that I'll probably succumb to the darkness the moment the full eclipse begins.

Honestly, I expected better from a Hilton. Perhaps my mistake was expecting better from Louisville.