12/12/2001:
"BK'S ELEVEN"

Here is the promised update, dear readers. I have eaten more food. And after that, I ate more food. Later, I shall most likely eat more food. And then perhaps David and I will hit the craps tables, although what the craps tables did to deserve being hit - well, actually, if one loses the craps tables deserve to be hit, don't they now? Well, until tomorrow then. Well, dear readers, here I am, live from Las Vegas, and having fun. My throat is a bit raw this morning because of all the smoke. That is the problem with Las Vegas. It's not just second-hand smoke, it's like someone has smoked sixteen packs and blown the smoke down your very own throat. In fact, I should think Las Vegas is the smoke capitol of the world. Sure, you can ask for a non-smoking room, but by the time you get up to it, you are smoked like a ham. I am one smoked bk, I will tell you that. We arrived at two o'clock yesterday, and immediately checked in to our rooms, then went downstairs and had a spot of lunch. Well, it wasn't exactly a "spot" of lunch, it was a whole blob of lunch. I had the amusing Fried Catfish Po' Boy and fries. We then went to a craps table and David immediately won one hundred dollars. I watched. Then I went to the poker room and got seated at a seven card stud game. That is because I have always fancied myself a seven card stud. I sat there for quite some time and played seven card stud, which is the best thing to do when you're in a seven card stud game. It wasn't much of a game however, but to find out how I did you'll have to click the unseemly button below.
I lost, that's how I did, how is that for a fine can of tomatoes? I lost seventy big ones. I mean big ones, as in one dollar bills, not seventy large, as they say on The Sopranos. During my time at the table, David wandered over and told me he'd gone back to the craps table, lost his hundred that he'd won and an additional hundred. About an hour later, he wandered over again and told me that he'd won back the hundred he'd lost and an additional six hundred dollars. We then went to eat a spot of dinner. And what a dinner. I had Steak Oscar, which is steak with bernaise sauce, crab and asparagus lying on top like so much fish. And then their special scalloped potatoes with blue cheese. Oh, and a Shrimp Cocktail and a salad. Yes, it was a lovely spot of dinner and afterwards both David and I looked like two hundred pound spots, so much food did we eat. We then went back to the craps tables, I gave David a twenty and he put in a twenty and in five minutes I'd won back my seventy large one dollar bills plus won an additional fifty bucks. I'm beginning to like craps, although I do not understand it. Well, I must keep these notes short today, because David is coming by any minute and we will go downstairs for a spot of something to eat. Not nearly enough comments yesterday. I live for your comments, dear readers, so please take advantage of the Unseemly Comment Box below, although what the Unseemly Comment Box did to deserve anyone taking advantage of it I have no idea. I'll have more to report later - check in for sure, because I may update these here notes later today (the new stuff will be right at the beginning, so you won't have to click any unseemly buttons.

Replies: 5 Unseemly Comments
Get yourselves out of that hell hole and get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. (Sorry, just back from Strawberry Fields, where people left flowers, candles, and green apples with very lovely messages.)
Smog is a huge spot better than smoke. xx SM
Posted by The Smog Monstress @ 12/12/2001 11:11 AM PST
Every time I've been to Vegas I've had a minor child with me, so we've been chased out of the casino if we so much as look at a slot machine. Interesting, too, that you MUST walk through the casino to get to the elevators to go up to the rooms. Glad you're having a chance to gamble. Don't lose too much!!
Posted by Laura @ 12/12/2001 12:04 PM PST
Congrats on winning more than you lost. The one time I tried gambling, I didn't manage to do that. Craps actually gives you the best odds in the house (you have almost a 50% chance of winning, though it still stacks up against you b/c you play so fast). (I only know this because I had to prove it in two or three different stats classes.) (That's what happens when you're an actuary...you're an actuary all the way.)
Posted by Marnie @ 12/12/2001 02:51 PM PST
Careful of Vegas, lad... yer DNA's tainted... Mind ye the Family Curse... aye, laddie, oy, laddie, beware o' the crap...
Posted by p @ 12/12/2001 05:02 PM PST
Keep up the eating. I'm living through you...and so far lost 8 pounds. If you stay long enough in Vegas, those damn 29" jeans will fit again....got it down to 30 today alone.
Posted by wlajb @ 12/12/2001 08:00 PM PST
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