I planned ahead. We went shopping at some local upscale market (Metropolitan Market), where I stocked up on some chicken, brussels sprouts and mashed, as well as tomato bisque soup. Hotel puts on a decent buffet breakfast every morning, scored some clean real ceramic plates, silverware, extra yogurts and fruit. I'm actually in the middle of Christmas lunch right now, it's all delicious, even though it's just reheated in the microwave. No Mickey D's for me, even though at times I crave spicy chicken sandwiches!
Catching up on calls and e-mails, and will continue to do so. It actually hasn't been too bad. Gonna digest a little then go to the hotel gym for cardio and dumbbells.
Have my Roku stick, which works with the hotel wifi/TV, so I have all the streaming stuff available.
Also have a few movies I downloaded to a USB drive, which leads to kind of a funny story.
On the flight out, Alaska has a system where you hook into their free wifi and they have tons of movies and TV shows to watch. Started to watch a movie on their system, and then I realized they were all 4:3 screen ratio, which I HATE. My seat preference is window. There was a 4-5 year old boy sitting next to me in the middle seat, dad next to him. Popped in the USB drive, started going through what I had.....and decided I wanted to watch the latest Jackass movie because that's not something the spouse would want to watch and I'm solo on this trip as I was supposed to be back on the 23rd.
I had forgotten how much penis and underwear there is in those movies, and it came on quickly (like the very first shot, which took me a while to recognize that the "monster" was actually a penis) and at unexpected times, but after the first few minutes I was committed to watching the whole thing. I already had the laptop angled so the kid didn't have a super clear view, but I can't tell you how many times I had to quickly put up my hand to the side of the screen to block what he might see out of his side eye! Fortunately he was engrossed in whatever animated kids thing he was watching on a tablet, and dad didn't seem aware either, and I didn't want to upset either one of them. I really do take care not to expose kids to profanity, inappropriate stuff, etc., as profane t-shirts and language when small kids are around can trigger my big mouth pretty easily and I don't like hypocrites. I chit chatted with dad a bit while waiting to deplane, and he didn't seem to be aware, and the kid wasn't either, even though he probably would have found the slapping of nuts while wearing underwear pretty funny. But my arm was pretty tired from holding it up so many times and for so long. Had to be very vigilant.
Easy to forget just how much editing goes into airline versions of movies, and how many aren't available because there's no way to edit them down.
But, in any case, I'm doing fine, just desperately want my flight to go out as scheduled tomorrow.