Jun 23, 06 11:01 pm — so i was in vegas this week for a few days. I put on about 400 miles and got to drive over the Hoover Dam. Vegas is a great town for driving. everything is North, South, East, and West. None of this NE & SE & SW shit like in Portland or some other damn cities. No Loops or crap like that to get you confused. Make a right, make a left bla bla bla it was good. easy to get around.

i stayed the first night in Laughlin, which is a small town near the Colorado River so it's full of families on vacation with their boats and old people who come to stay in $20 hotel rooms to play bingo for 20 hours a day. needless to say i was glad that i only had to spend about 10 hours there. anyway, i sat at a video poker machine and drank 6 Crown Royal & waters for real cheap ( $4 tips & $4 in the machine) in just over an hour.

the 2nd night i stayed at The Flamingo ($70 ish) because JB's Margaritaville is located there. great, but like a dummy i go and spend $8.25 on a Myers rum & coke instead of sitting at some gambling machine or table and drinking the same thing for free. so i go to a black jack machine and manage to get one drink from those cocktail bitches (as i got to know them. because they didn't realise how thirsty i was) and they left me high and dry for the rest of the night. like i said - bitches. i wasn't even drunk or anything.

meanwhile i'm driving all over las vegas doing my surveys for work in the blazing sun. ass & back all wet with sweat from getting in and out of the car the whole day and spending a 1/2 hour at each site while the sun attempts to prematurely age me. (great rate on my rental car btw. less than a hundo for 3 days from Thrifty) I ate a real nice meal there at Steakhouse 46, unfortuneatly it was kinda pricy ($56 w/ tip for an 8 oz Filet and a glass of wine). hopefully i can sneak it in on my expense report.

3rd night i classed it up at the Venetian for like $170 or so on a discount rate. what a bunch of snooty...er.. fancy pants bitches. i enjoyed it there. nice place. dropped a hundo on a pair of shorts & a shirt from Ban. Rep. because i was short of clean clothes. and no, i didn't save 15% by applying for a BR credit card) i ate a 'simple' meal with a Caprese salad and some pasta w/ chicken and a $10.50 double Maker's Mark with a splash of soda water. (another $46 dollar meal. i think we're officially allowed $30/day for meals when out on business. how the fuck do they expect me to eat a couple good meals for that much? i like good food & drink!) i think i'll get it covered cuz i get the homeboy hook up from the high-ups @ work. right on!

today i went to ESPN Zone at New York New York to watch world cup soccer. it was cool. that hotel/casino is pretty nice. i think i'd stay there next time. Ginormous arcade for the yung-uns. then i returned my rental and got to the airport 5 hours early. luckily i stopped as some place that sold booze and bought a fifth of Myers and a couple bottles of Diet Coke so i could pass out on my late night flight to Milwaukee and let the boredome get to me enough to write a rambling blognatorial while i waited.

i think i broke out even on the gambling. real table Black Jack was good to me while video black jack was bad. i've got some quarters left that i'm going to shit away at the airport slots before my red-eye flight home tonight.

drinks on me tonight. it's good to have 3 days to do 2 days worth of work.

tomorrow morning is going to come fast. flight leaves at 11:59PM vegas time and gets in at 5:30 Milwaukee time. then i got to meet my wife & baby at "breakfast at the farm" at 7. it's bound to be a good day. i miss my girls (i should post this before i get in to that).





[journal edited by litty on 2006:06:23 23:06:25]