So I’m in Portland for the fifth year in a row at the OSCON Open Source Developer’s Conference. And as in prior years, the Institute has put me up in the DoubleTree just a couple blocks away from the convention center. That’s do-able largely because of the deep discount the hotel gives to OSCON convention attendees. <\/p>\n
The rooms I’ve had have ranged widely from the small to the large. Last year they put me in a really nice deluxe room. This year it’s one of their smallest. What’s going on I found out, is that the hotel basically fills in the blanks with conference goers. We get, at a very nice rate, whatever the hotel couldn’t book at the regular rate. And I am not complaining.<\/p>\n
DoubleTree beds are decadent. I’ll reliably stay at a DoubleTree whenever I can afford it for the bed. I get, hands down, the best sleep ever on these beds. The chain has them custom made to their own specs, and you can actually buy one yourself. Swear to god one of these days I will…but they are not cheap<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n It’s not just the mattress and box springs, it’s a whole system including a cushioned mattress cover, box baffled down blankets and triple sheets plus lovely jumbo down pillows. I was so looking forward to getting to my hotel after a long day’s flight, crammed into a tiny passenger jet seat, and lay down in one of these lovely beds. It’s been two nights of heaven so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m in Portland for the fifth year in a row at the OSCON Open Source Developer’s Conference. And as in prior years, the Institute has put me up in the DoubleTree just a couple blocks away from the convention center. That’s do-able largely because of the deep discount the hotel gives to OSCON convention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,94,1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}