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July 18, 2006

Broke Even (Not Broke, Even) In Vegas

I got back from Vegas safe, unmarried and not broke. I won $135 on blackjack on Friday night and slowly lost it over the next two days, essentially breaking even. I stuck with blackjack mostly, but tried Pai Gow Poker (a great way to make $20 last an hour) and craps. It took me a couple rounds to figure out the jist of craps, but I think I can summarize it like this: you put money on the table, someone rolls dice, and then they take your money away. I'm a quick learner, and after dropping $40, realized I could skip the first step and save myself a lot of grief.

We stayed at the fabulous Tropicana Hotel on the strip, with an excellent view of the MGM Grand's video billboard advertising a Howie Mandel show. Between those ads and the ads for Carrot Top, it became clear that Vegas is the place where bad comedians go to die.

It was 115°F (46°C) the whole weekend, so we spent a good chunk of Saturday at the pool, drinking weak fruity drinks from plastic football-shaped jugs. We caught a "rock" show that night (note to producers of "Erocktica": the song "It's Getting Hot In Here" is not rock).

Sadly most of the fine establishments we patronized didn't allow photographs to be taken (I'm talking about the casinos, what were you thinking?), so I didn't end up taking many photos all weekend.

Overall, a great weekend of booze, gambling, my first steak dinner of 2006, and most importantly, no trips to the desert to bury a dead hooker.

07:20 | Stuff

Comments

Yeah, why waste all that time digging when the desert scavengers will just unearth her again. You only make that mistake once, know what I mean? Thank you CSI...
Rew

Posted by: Rew at July 18, 2006 9:18 AM

Sorry, Chris. Computer terminal sucks and does screwy things sometimes.

Posted by: Rew at July 18, 2006 9:21 AM

OMG! Erocktica, LOL!!! how did you even notice what songs they were playing when everyone was, in fact, topless?

Posted by: mindy at July 18, 2006 11:39 AM

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