Let's see...
Checked in 300 rooms of mostly storm refugees, helped prepare over 1400 meals, calmed the nerves of a few nervous seniors, broke up a dog fight, broke up a domestic fight, hung out a window to tie down a large "W" on the building sign that broke loose, made up some beds, thanked the employees who made it into work a million times, bought the house a round of drinks, cancelled three weddings, consoled a young couple who's wedding got cancelled due to the storm, arranged for the rabbi to do the ceremony in his office, housed 30 employees and families on site so we could operate, sliced my finger cutting fruit, ripped my pants pulling limbs off of guests cars, watched too many hours of swirling red and green patterns on TV, called home a few times to make sure the family was OK, offered help to other hotels without power/food/telephones, took pictures of storm damage, cleaned up dog poop, cleaned up people puke, apologized that the pool/health club/satellite TV/room service was closed or broken, bussed tables, poured drinks, drank a case of beer with the restaurant/bar/kitchen staff at 11:00pm after they had worked since 5:00am, slept for six hours, drove around looking for rabbit ears to TV's, apologized that the health club located in a separate building accessible from outside only really was closed for safety reasons, reset mechanical systems and chillers with each power bump, updated corporate office staff as to status, extended stays of people who couldn't leave and wondering where I going to put all the new arrivals, unclogged storm drains, recieved a bunch of calls from my worried mother, cursed the dent and scatch on my car from a tree limb, played poker with guests for an hour, asked people to please keep their windows closed, asked people not to go outside to smoke when gusts reached 60 mph and it kept smacking the door into the plate glass window whenever they opened it, gratefully took a ton of compliments on how well the staff perform under the circumstances, begged the food wholesaler to make a delivery Monday morning, reset the phone system after a power bump made it past the UPS, drank too much coffee.
And then on Saturday....
Marc
