Layup is currently somewhere in Utah right now driving toward Vegas. He has described Utah as "very much like Kansas or Iowa, but more desolate". Sounds wonderful!
He is also trying to get a hotel room in Vegas for the night - however, this is a fight weekend and there are almost no rooms availabile for him. Even the Palace Station* is sold out this weekend. I've spent a good hour checking rooms for him on the internet - right now, it's down to the Riviera or South Point. The deal-decider is that "Vick Lawrence and Momma!" is playing at the South Point - that may do it for Layup.
I spent most of the day either:
- creating Pokemon badges for guests at Freddie's party tomorrow, or
- making Pokemon bingo cards.
I don't get it, but apparently many 6- or 7-year olds have the mental capacity to memorize 300 or so different cartoon figures and their names.
I was traveling on Valentine's day - which means I got to save money on roses! The flower shop had a dozen roses for half off on Feb 15th, the day I got back from Iowa! Hmmmm....I may make this a tradition....
Spekaing of Iowa, I took 3 hours out of my night and visited the casino there (again) - always $5 black jack, craps, Ultimate Hold 'em available and $10 Pai Gow also. The casino is about 15 miles south of Iowa City, so a quick trip from the plant/hotel.... I'm starting to become a regular. THis is my fourth trip there in about 3 months - and I am recognizing the dealers. Not one or two dealers, but like 8 or 9 of them. The casino is about 40% Iowa students, 30% retirees, 20% truckers, and I'd say 10% degenerates. Not sure what category I fall into.
I reflect on this casino and the timing....and I'm glad it wasn't there when I lived in Iowa City. That could have been a problem. The closest casino back in 04 and 05 was in Davenport, a 60 mile drive. Doable, but something you had to plan for. If the casino was 15 minutes away when I lived there, well, that would have been too easy.
This has happened a couple times in my life....
1) BW-3's starting popping up all over the place in Cleveland in the early 90's. We used to go down to the flats every Tuesday for 10 cent wing night. Just as I graduated, they opened one near campus in Coventry. If that opened a year earlier, I would have lived there...
2) Indiana apporved casinos in 1995, and Argosy/Grand Victoria opened in 1997, which was about an hour from my house. I got married in late 96......I made enough solo trips there when we just got married and Janice had to travel..... imagine if they were open when I was single and in Dayton in 94 - 95.
3) And now the Iowa City casino....
All that "good" timing that occurred in my life is outweighed by the "bad" timing of the Case golf course. Our college team had privledges on one of the nicest private courses in Cleveland - Acacia - in the last 80's; in the spring of 1989, one of our players buried his putter in the 4th green; the 4th green unfortunately was close to the clubhouse and a private party of 100 saw the action. We were not welcomed back on the course; I entered Case in the fall of 1989 and never played the course.
Thanks, Moose.
* - Palace Station, highly rated on Eric's sentimentality scale, as it was the hotel where Eric stayed on his first Vegas trip in 1994. **
** - by the way, rooms are available there for the March weekend at $59 a room!
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