Back several months ago when I got my acceptance for a Nexus interview I scheduled the interview with a planned trip to Alberta.  It was partially to cut down on trips, but mostly because that was pretty close to the earliest any airport could see me.

I could have gone to one of the land crossings very quickly and had the interview and dropped in for the iris picture on my next trip to an airport, but it also worked out that this is my first trip to Canada since my acceptance.  I thought about canceling many times to just take a hop up to Detroit, but now my time is here.

Hopefully I will finally use the Canadian money I have been carrying around for months.

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I’ve been taking statistics for hotel WIFI versus cellular data.  This week I’m at Hampton Inn in Tampa/Brandon, FL.  The hotel wireless is significantly slower than my phone.  So much slower that I was tempted to just tether to my phone instead of using the WIFI.

I highlighted the comparison.  The tower indicates my cellular data and the wifi logo indicates wifi.

I will do my best to rat out others with slow internet because as you can see I track this often.

I should have figured it would be this way since they still use the old access codes, not the current login screen used by most other Hamptons.