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DAY: 22 & 23 DATE: Monday/Tuesday, July 9/10 MILES: 0 TOTAL MILES: 3486
LOCATION: Las Vegas, NV
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Get me and my trusty ol' ATM card outta here! It is so overwhelming, like the Grand Canyon with the shear size of the casinos/hotels. The footprint of each one would cover downtown Annapolis. And if that weren't enough, I've never seen so much construction here. And, I don't mean on the outskirts, I mean downtown. I would guess that there are 6 new buildings and renovations in progress. What were strip shops out towards the MGM Grand are now or will be new casinos. Even The Wynn is putting on a whole new addition. I can't imagine the power requirements. What I love, it's 1100 outside and a lot of these places have their doors wide open and the AC just floods out onto the street. I'll tell you what, if we let BGE (Baltimore Gas and Electric), Constellation Energy and, the Maryland Public Utilities Commission regulate the electric prices out here they'd make Vegas as dark as the far side of the moon.Friday night around 11:30 I win a Jackpot of $250 at a quarter video poker machine ... hot dang. Next morning I win $80 doing the same thing but at Bill's Casino (used to be the Barbary Coast) ... I'm well on my way to the fabulous wealth I only dreamed of. Alas and alack, by Monday afternoon the dream has been dashed and I'm wondering how long it will take to hitchhike to Kim's house. But, as luck would have it in this city of opportunity, Antonio Juan de la Vega sees my plight and now I'm standing in my Speedo along the strip giving out those cheesy sex cards to tourists ... sweet, life IS good!
And then we have the Harley dude incident. Tuesday morning I'm walking over next door to get some breakfast at Ellis Island Casino. This is the place right next door to the Super 8 that I always rave about. Anyway, I see this good lookin' new Harley parked by the entrance door and it has some weird cable running from the left handle bar to the rear wheel. I wonder what it is and wander over to have a look. I figure it is some sort of anti theft rig. Well I'm looking at it when the alarm goes off. Out runs this overweight Harley dude and immediately tells me to get my $%#^ing hands off his bike. I tell him I never touched it, that I own a bike and understand biker etiquette. He insists I did %^$&ing touch his bike and I'm lying. At this point I come unglued, we start arguing and the security guards come out to see what's happening. I try to explain but my buddy keeps telling me to keep my %^$&ing hands off. Of course the guards don't believe me. So I say hell with it and go to walk inside as do the others. I leap back and say, see, I move my hand about a foot from the cable and off goes the alarm. Well the rider leaps between me and the bike again accusing me of touching the bike. I said, "Hello, McFly, are you as blind as you are stupid." It's a proximity alarm not a touch alarm. Where or where is Little Gene when I need him.
