is this the world we created, what did we do it for

hi there 

normally (or usually) around this time of any given month i would unleash my often misguided but sometimes (hopefully) useful musings on whatever two books i have most recently read. alas, there is to be a delay in this, look you see. mostly that would be down to the length of the second (of two) what i am reading, but also time has unexpectedly not been available to read. 

just as soon as i have finished the second of two books (the most recent Stephen King to appear in paperback, and it is typically long), i shall gather together my thoughts and comment here. for now, though, let me instead regale you once again with tales of what a right mess we have made of the world, and how things used to be better. 

hotels have a great deal in common with air travel. this is not in a good way. where once they were pleasant, luxuriant treats to be looked forward to and very much enjoyed, now they are nasty, abject, hideous experiences, to be avoided and used only from vital necessity. both have been transformed into cheap money grabs, run and operated in a way to make the lives of those unfortunate enough to use them as expensive, uncomfortable and miserable as possible. 

the few perks that once came with having to stay in a hotel, even in the present day, have now gone forever, it seems. a stay in a hotel, for instance, normally secured me a good couple of weeks (sometimes months) supply of fancy shampoos in miniature bottles, as well as 50p shaped and sized bars of soap. now you just get a dispenser in the shower what is (believe me) bolted on, so you can't take it with you. 

and now, as you can see quite clearly in Commodore 64 mode above (and in non Commodore 64 mode below, if you insist), one of the other bonuses of needing to stay in a hotel has gone. you could, in glorious (maybe even hedonistic) days gone by, leave a hotel with as many free towels as what you could find in your room and/or fit in your case. now, no more, it seems. 

yes. they have gone ahead and introduced some sort of electronic tagging to towels provided in hotel rooms. i imagine (no i did not try it) they emit some sort of warning if a guest, or similar such patron, of a hotel attempts to leave after "accidentally" mistaking six or seven towels for items of clothing and packed them up to take them home. 

many theories, both of a conspiracy and perfectly valid nature, speak against just how technology is being used today. a lot of it is against the tracking and tracing abilities one can use it for, as well as covert or overt monitoring. usually i would just ignore such theories, as they are of little interest to me. how foolish i was to do so, for i would have been warned, had i paid attention, that the day was coming when you didn't even get one single free towel as a thank you for staying at a hotel no more. 

it is possible, i suppose, that the label is a fake, a ruse sewn on to persuade guests not to try to take the towels. who, after all, would spend good money on making a towel wi-fi enabled? but, no, i decided against testing out if it was real or not. life has enough embarrassments and humiliations as it is without courting such; so f*** their towels if they don't want me to have one of them. 

right, anyway, with that out of my system, yes, i think i will take another pill and go for a nice lie down. perhaps i shall do some reading whilst there. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!