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Just a little follow up to Hotel WiFi does not always work when you try to work remotely about the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio.

While we were there the customer service was really poor, but since getting our bill they have messed up even more and have not been nice.

While checking out, my wife gave them her work tax exempt certificate, they honored it and gave her the bill with no tax. It just cleared our bank a few days ago and suddenly was $79 higher than the bill! They had added the tax back.

Ruthie had to spend a bunch of her valuable time calling and emailing the hotel, dealing with a rude desk clerk who did not want to help resolve the issue. She finally got through to the General Manager, who took care of the problem (we got a credit issued, but have yet to see it hit the account), but was not too friendly and emailed her the credit, which came without even a "sorry" note or anything.

This was a really neat historic hotel behind the Alamo with a really cool suite. The service was way below what we expected though and San Antonio has way too many other nice hotels for us ever to spend a dime in this joint again. I have to say - avoid The Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, TX - bad service for $159/night and the $24/day parking was way too high.

This is my 1st real test of working freelance remotely (on a trip out of town) with just my Apple Powerbook G4 laptop and a wifi connection.

I am in College Station, TX with my wife, a co-worker of hers and my brother-in-law. They all came for a continuing education 2 day workshop for engineers. I came along just cuz I could and wanted to keep ruthie company. We like to travel together.

Now I have worked remotely before from a hotel room in San Antonio, TX while Ruthie was at a conference there, but I was working full time as an employee of Hitchfinder.com and I pretty much had to be connected to the office so they would see I was actually "on the clock".

This time I am working for myself, so it will be interesting to see how I fare at self control in keeping myself "on target" in getting some actual work done here on this trip.

I will finish this post tomorrow night and fill you in on how I did over the course of the day.

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Well, I was pretty productive. I finished a comp of a 10-page site for a client for his massage business. It is a re-do of an old site.

I did also play a bit though. I dropped Ruthie and crew back off after lunch at Fatburger (big juicy 2/3 burger) and went to 3 pawn shops looking for items to sell on eBay, but did not find anything.

So I am declaring the day a success.

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