Random Musings - Day #111

111
111 is apparently the perfect number, it is also 7 in binary... lucky?

Liverpool
I went up north for work and missed my designated train (fortunately, the ticket is saver return and hence can take any off-peak train) by 5 minutes. I badly wished for that train to be late. No. Worse yet, the next train an hour later was late by 40 minutes. So I was waiting well over 90 minutes. Not pleased. It always the case if you miss one train, invariably the next one is either delayed or cancelled.
Because of this I had to franticly find the telephone number of the hotel I was staying at (particularly the last hotel I stayed at, had a check-in time of between 4-8pm). Inconveniently, work didn't supply me the number so I had to look it up on the phone in the end. The hotel was City B&B. I phoned them and fortunately someone would wait for me.
I didn't get to Liverpool until 11pm. The taxi was interesting. I almost freaked him out when I said where I wanted to go to. It was almost as if I asked 'Could you take me to Thamesmead?' from London City Airport! He did take me there and told me the area was a dive! Anyways, it was eerily quiet and yes a bit derelict. Anyhow the hotelier was nice enough. Mind you, he didn't take card, so I had to get some cash but the man was nice enough to escort me to the cashpoint machine in town. So that was cool. He did make a remark (although in a friendly tone) that some guys after football games check in at midnight without forewarning, which luckily enough I did.