Suggesting tipping $10/person/day is a good advertisement for using Airbnb instead of hotels. 

Do not tip your hotel staff! A few exceptions, tip the person who brings up your bags and tip room service.

Hmm 2016 was $5, multiply by cost of living inflation, carry the 1, $10. Boy do I wish I my salary had done that in 3 years. 

I leave the DND sign up because I prefer they stay out. It’s not that I am hiding anything, I would just prefer they not come in, and I don’t need the service. I realize it’s not a legally binding contract. In all the many, many hotels I have stayed at, I have never come back to find my room clean when I left the DND…

$10/day per person for tips? Have you been talking to the Salty Waitress?

See, I don’t understand any of this at all. I book a hotel room so I have somewhere to sleep when I’m not doing what I’m in town to do. The job of housekeeping is to refresh the room after I’ve used it. I’m not gonna trash the room, but why should I do their job for them? If I want privacy, I need to feel bad about…

Tips for a healthy life

I listened to all of The Dropout and just finished the documentary. I preferred the podcast. Every time she was on screen in the doc, I had to look away. She’s fucking creepy. She would probably stab someone with that blank look her face and then lie about how they ran into the knife. All with that fake, deadpan bro…

Their cheese curds aren’t that good (ducks).

*October
*May

I live in Detroit. Doing work outside between the months of November and December is miserable.

I was all ready to say something snarky in the comments until I saw that the dude is a Vietnam vet and the restaurant is his comfort and now I’m like “man, whatever gets you through.”

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The real story is wages have been flat for well over a decade. Housing, healthcare, transportation, education have all gone up faster than inflation in the past 10-20 years, but minimum wage has been $7.25 for a decade. Even with record-low unemployment, employers loathe to raise wages. They’d rather leave work on the…

I can not with the mouth sounds in that video.

To your point, one thing we rarely talk about is how expensive booze is. I’ve never been much of a drinker — maybe a few drinks per year. My present partner doesn’t drink at all. It really impacts our bottom line for the better

But only when I fall asleep playing.

Ketchup is for burgers, not mayonnaise. 

I agree that recycling is just way too confusing. I wish there would be a national movement behind subsidizing plastics recycling reclamation and usage. I would like to see systems put in place that create facilities on the local level for collection, thus creating jobs AND creating a system for reclaiming all these…

First it takes a ton of skill to be able to hit a 100mph baseball period. Even major league players struggle to do that.