Part two of the Vegas Trip (still no car stuff being posted)

I don't want to mislead anyone, so I am making it clear that this blog (for the next few days) will not be about the car. There is some news about the car coming, but not for a while.

So for right now, I am just posting a bit about my recent trip to, and return from Las Vegas. It was an adventure and some of it actually a bit amusing. But I will let you be the judge. Enjoy... or not.

Part 2

Poker, Poker Poker. I played a lot of tournament Poker. And had more than my fair share of success including a couple of near legendary comebacks in games where I was never really getting any good cards, but still hanging in, playing smart poker, getting a bit lucky, and actually cashing. In one case, I was down to 2 big blinds with 7 players left, and ended up winning that tournament for over $800. In general, I cashed in more than half the tournament I played. So, as far as Poker goes, I had a pretty good week!

One time, between Poker tournaments (I play two to five a day) , I was sitting at the bar playing Video Poker, (more about the Video Poker later) but I was making small talk with the well dressed man who was playing the next machine. A mature gentleman walked past us, with his beautiful young daughter on his arm. The fellow next to me, obviously noticed her too. So I commented to him that I see a lot of that. Yes, he confirmed there is a lot of that here. I told him that I thought it was good idea for a father to bring his daughter to Las Vegas. Family bonding, etc. He laughed. Then I told him that since I don't have a daughter,I am now beginning to think that I should adopt one. He laughed again! You don't have to adopt one, he said. You can just rent one. And I have a stable of them. I can hook you up, man.

Well the thought of a nubile young woman, with perky appointments, and a tight shapely tush unfettered by age and gravity was pretty exciting for a moment....... What happened? You know what they say about Vegas. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.....

But seriously, I guess I am just too old to pay for something that is only sexual, and has no emotional component. I have had something just like that, a couple of times before. Well, minus the sex of course. What was this thing that had no emotional component, and no sex? Well, It was called marriage. And it was very very expensive too. Anyway, it was an interesting temptation. Or maybe it was a lot more than just a temptation? I'll never tell.

I previously mentioned that I was playing Video Poker. Every time I played Video Poker, I was waiting for the holy grail of Video Poker; four aces. And it finally did happen. It was in Binion's Casino, where I played most of my Poker. Four Aces with a 3, payed a thousand dollars. I got a number of other four of a kinds, but nothing has the emotional impact, or the payout, of four aces with a small card. OK, a Royal Flush does, but those are close to impossible. And since I have never had one, I am not sure they are even possible. So, I will stick with my Aces!

And I had another epiphany as I observed the people in Las Vegas casinos on my way to the Poker Room. Most people are downright fat. In many of the the casinos, a lot of the people walking around look like they could just as easily be plodding around the local Wal-Mart. It is particularly annoying when you want to get somewhere, and a couple of folks who should have wide load signs pasted on their backs, amble back and forth, randomly stopping and looking around as if, they have a difficult decision, then they go back to ambling further. This makes passing them difficult and even potentially dangerous. One poorly timed move, and you could be unceremoniously bounced by the wide loads into a table full of cards, dice and chips, and hopeful gamblers and smiling casino employees. Quite a risk there! Just go the other way. But, there are more of them. They are clogging up aisles all over the casinos. Is this a conspiracy to keep me from the Poker table? Did that guy I recently took out by hitting my set on the river arrange all of this? Probably not..... It is just a fact of life, that there are a lot of obese people and and they take up far more spare than was ever planned for aisle ways in public places.

I won't continue to go on here about the scourge of obesity that we are experiencing, except to say that I have a theory about Global Warming. I believe it is real, and is caused by all of the overweight people. Heat, from them. Interfering with air flow.. Etc, etc... But I said I wouldn't go on about that here. So I won'.

On my second day in Las Vegas. I decided that I needed to pick up something from the local magic shop. If readers are not aware I am a professional magician.Actually I am a professional magician whether or not readers are aware. Not a full time magician, but I get payed to perform magic, so that makes me a professional. Or maybe that just means that I an amateur who gets paid. Don't you just hate gray areas? But from my viewpoint, I am a professional. That is my story, and I am sticking to it.

So here I am in Vegas. Why go to the magic shop? Well, I like to do a little impromptu magic, and it takes an awful lot of advance planning to be impromptu. And I needed a special something for an effect I like to spring on folks. Naturally, it is something that already own, but just didn't bring it along. Or, if I did, I can't find it. So off to Denny and Lee's magic shop I need to go..

Down the hall, down the elevator, out the door, I walk form the Hotel to the Parking Garage..........

Continued.....