Useful things to do/learn in the hotel on overnights - looking for ideas

I used to travel a lot for work, but not as a pro pilot. My work schedules were odd too, working in a shiftwork industrial setting. As an engineer most was regular-ish daytime hours but lots of overtime, nights, and weekends.
To make matters worse, these were in the days before internet.
and to make matters even worse than that, I was mostly traveling to small paper-mill towns with not much to do, not many choices for dining out.

A lot of very long days so I pretty much crashed when I got to the room, but I spent a lot of dead downtime too. When I think back on what I did, mostly what comes to mind was doing work. Just out of boredom in that time back in the room after dinner but before bed, I'd pull out the computer and work on my data spreadsheets, sketch design ideas, catch up on emails (with dial-up modem), etc...

I think that with internet what it is today, I'd likely find myself in the youtube rabbit hole a lot...but I think that I'd also find myself researching the topic-of-interest for the month. Seems like I've always got something I'm fixating on...wether it be trying to find a replacement prop for my old outboard boat engine, or what's the best way to repair xyz, or the latest thing that came to mind the other day and I jhaven't made the time to research it yet...how to keep my toll road transponder's suction cups form failing and dropping the thing onto my dash. I'd like to thik taht with internet what it is now, I'd take on something more meaningful, such as learning another language, but I know that I likely wouldn't.

I like @Randomskylane 's suggestion of writting a book. My favorite genre is autobiographies/memoirs, mostly military. I've often considered that writting a book to get my stories recorded would be a nice way to leave a little mark on the world... but I just don't feel that I've got very many stories that anyone would be interested in reading....partially because my memory is just too fuzzy but mostly because I haven't done anything adventuresome such as dogfight against the Nazis or make my way through viet-cong held jungles. All the travelling I did for example. All the towns have sort of run together. I've forgotten people's names, etc. I threw away my old paper daytimer calendar years ago taht would have been helpful to piece together a little bit of that and I have no other diaries or documentation to help.
 
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a TootsiePop? There’s probably a government grant to be had for a study, since the previous study was questionable.

 
How about starting a political campaign? Run for dog catcher or school board or the US senate or something. Watch the campaign donations roll in.

Or start a humanitarian project, sending Bibles to prison inmates. The hotels will supply the Bibles, and you can enclose an encouraging letter.
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
They are color coded - different colors for prisons, campus ministries, military, hotels...
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I think I might agree with another poster that said maybe you could become a writer. It's would be something you could do online and keep POA in suspense ...

As an example

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flyingcheesehead said:
There were two different colored Jesus books in the hotel I stayed in last night.

One said "Bible", and the other one said "The Book of Mormon." That's a first.
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All Marriott properties have a Book of Mormon in them, so I assume this was one of their brands. I stay almost exclusively in Marriott properties while traveling for work.
 
RussR said:
All Marriott properties have a Book of Mormon in them, so I assume this was one of their brands. I stay almost exclusively in Marriott properties while traveling for work.
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Interesting. It was a weird Mariott thing with two brands in one building. Go left for one front desk, right for the other.

Bill said:
There’s a South Park episode that gives a really good TL;DR on that second book.
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And a funny musical by the same guys too...
 
Learn to use and play a jaw harp. Reference @therealauracle on instagram. Not the most productive thing to do, but (it could be) entertaining (maybe?).
 
Michael Emerson said:
Learn to use and play a jaw harp. Reference @therealauracle on instagram. Not the most productive thing to do, but (it could be) entertaining (maybe?).
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especially entertaining for other people in the hotel
 
There's a rule that if the beer vendor stops serving, they have to stop the game, right?
 
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