I don’t know what the deal is here at the luxurious Hampton Inn (you can smell the sarcasm there, can’t you?), but there’s some loud-ass shit going on around here. Someone or something keeps dropping two ton anvils or slamming nuclear blast doors or dropping bunker-buster bombs into the building or God knows what, but whatever it is, it’s loud as all hell and it’s shaking this place like a 5.2 earthquake.

Seriously, last night there was this Boom! from what sounded like the room next door and all the lampshades in my room started shaking. Just now there was another Boom! — not quite as loud or as near as last night’s heart attack, but the jolt was still strong enough to just about bounce my laptop around on the desk.

On the plus side, all the noise and shaking is making me not so homesick.