And the lightbulb goes on...

As long as I'm blogging about the Sheraton, how about this?

Don't take this as badmouthing the hotel--there has been some griping within Mensa because of a mess relating to some plans for homemade food that the hotel feared would violate the health code. Not knowing the local health codes, the exact contract with the hotel, or what else may have happened behind the scenes within Mensa, I have a poor idea of who's right or wrong--though I do tend to think National handled things badly, if only because the official information was cryptic and really uninformative. The hotel, for its part, does have to worry about these sorts of things--if something did go wrong, they'd wind up getting sued for something that wouldn't be under their control or their fault (if anybody's). But I digress. In any event, at least from my standpoint, the hotel's service was good.

However, there was one quirk of our hotel room (1110) that bears comment. Not counting the bathroom, there are five lights in the room--a ceiling light by the door, a desk lamp, a floor lamp, a wall-mounted lamp over the dining/reading table, and a wall-mounted lamp over the nightstand. Of those five lamps, no two are turned on the same way--you use a light switch, a rocker switch on the cord, a knob by the bulb, a rocker switch on the bottom of the lamp, and a push button on the bottom of the lamp respectively.

I think this hotel was chosen for the AG because the room's lights are an IQ test in and of themselves.