Conundrum at the Red Sea: To work or to play today?

So I am pondering the lifelong dilemma: work first or play first? I’m in a spacious room at a beachfront hotel along the Red Sea Coast and it is gorgeous out there --- I took a stroll along the sand after breakfast --- but sun worshiping tends to be a bit of a soporific and it’s far too early in the day to lose ambition. So I think I will at least start with the internet research, and then perhaps take a printout of it to the shore --- seems like a healthy compromise. Internet is a bit much of a racket here but there is not a whole lot of choice. Also, it’s really slow because a couple weeks ago some ship dropped anchor at a bad spot in the Mediterranean, destroying 3 of the 4 undersea internet cables that service the Middle East.


And one final internet dilemma: the wireless functions less often than more, and the DSL cable that is the best hope for a steady connection is on the opposite side of the room from the desk. So the only place to work on my laptop is sitting up on the bed, which is fine at night but makes me feel like an invalid during the other times of the day. So I just put the “Privacy Please” sign up and am toying with the idea of rearranging some of the furniture in the room so that I can work with the internet in a sitting-up-normal-in-a-chair-at-a-desk position. Hmmmm . . . . muahahahah.