Monday, November 20, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Sin City - Installment #3
So, did you think Adrian's efforts paid off? Of course! I gave him my email address at the end of the night (before I stumbled to my room and took a nap for about an hour)! That's all he wanted, right? ;-)
The next morning was even rougher. It took twice as much Starbucks coffee to make me coherent. More work had to be done during the day.
Once we were done with that, we had a plan to go to the Venetian and have dinner. It seemed like it was very close to our hotel so we walked. After 2 hours of walking we made it there. The wait for a table at every restaurant was at least 2 hours... We ate at the buffett in Harrah's (it was fairly disgusting but my displeasure may have been intensified by the fact that the blisters on my feet that I got from walking for 2 hours started bleeding...). A couple of hours of shopping later (mostly "window") we got to enjoy a comedy show. The show was good but it was even funnier for us because one of the guys in our group managed to get wasted somewhere before the show and fell asleep in his chair in the front row while all of our bosses watched him. We took pictures, the comedians made fun of him. Embarassing for him - funny for us. Lesson learned: "When you are travelling on business, wait till your bosses go to bed before you start getting wasted!"
The rest of the night was spent gambling and drinking again. Most of my new friends had flights to catch at 4 or 5 am so they decided not to go to bed. Mine wasn't till 11am but I had to keep my friends company, so I stayed up too. Yes, I am a team player!
I actually won some money that night but Adrian showed up again and gave me a few more chips to play with. Around 2 am he proposed to me. I still had a few chips left so we couldn't get married right then. We played some more. My friends needed to go take a shower before heading to the airport, so it was time for me to take a nap for a couple of hours. Adrian inquired about that wedding that was in the works. I told him I was too tired. He said he would like me to come to visit him in Germany. I told him to email me :-)
The next morning was even rougher. It took twice as much Starbucks coffee to make me coherent. More work had to be done during the day.
Once we were done with that, we had a plan to go to the Venetian and have dinner. It seemed like it was very close to our hotel so we walked. After 2 hours of walking we made it there. The wait for a table at every restaurant was at least 2 hours... We ate at the buffett in Harrah's (it was fairly disgusting but my displeasure may have been intensified by the fact that the blisters on my feet that I got from walking for 2 hours started bleeding...). A couple of hours of shopping later (mostly "window") we got to enjoy a comedy show. The show was good but it was even funnier for us because one of the guys in our group managed to get wasted somewhere before the show and fell asleep in his chair in the front row while all of our bosses watched him. We took pictures, the comedians made fun of him. Embarassing for him - funny for us. Lesson learned: "When you are travelling on business, wait till your bosses go to bed before you start getting wasted!"
The rest of the night was spent gambling and drinking again. Most of my new friends had flights to catch at 4 or 5 am so they decided not to go to bed. Mine wasn't till 11am but I had to keep my friends company, so I stayed up too. Yes, I am a team player!
I actually won some money that night but Adrian showed up again and gave me a few more chips to play with. Around 2 am he proposed to me. I still had a few chips left so we couldn't get married right then. We played some more. My friends needed to go take a shower before heading to the airport, so it was time for me to take a nap for a couple of hours. Adrian inquired about that wedding that was in the works. I told him I was too tired. He said he would like me to come to visit him in Germany. I told him to email me :-)
Sin City - Installment #2
Well, let me take a step back and tell you the story about an older guy that Rene and I encountered at a restaurant on Monday night.
He was sitting at a table next to us by himself. We started chatting about nothing (we were starved, so a meaningless conversation was supposed to help suppress that hunger till our food arrived): where are you from, what are you here for, blah-blah-blah.
Me: I live in Missouri
Older Guy (OG): Oh... I think I have a sister in Missouri
Me: You think? You must not have been keeping in contact
OG: Well, it migh be her sons that live there
Me: You don't know where your nephews live either?
OG: She is not really my sister... My sister died and her soul reincarnated into this woman's body
Me and Rene:?????(puzzled looks, suppressing giggles)
Changing the subject. We started talking about our flights to Vegas.
OG: My son controls air traffic!
Me: That sounds like a great job. He must be enjoying it.
OG: He is... He just turned 5 years old last month...
Me and Rene:??????
This is when I started drinking heavily so can't remember how it all ended...
Tuesday.
We had to do some work on Tuesday from 8am till about 5pm (it took a lot of Starbucks to get us going in the morning. Luckily, there was one in the building where we were meeting). Once we got done, Rene and I had a plan to just walk around the strip and check out different casinos. I won't go into details but we saw some amazing stuff! After eating good food and having a few drinks, we ended up back at our hotel/casino and decided to play some Black Jack.
Now, I am a highroller so I had to wait for a table with $5 min. bets to open up :-) We were having a good time and I noticed this guy sitting at another black jack table who was staring at me. I was intrigued. He came over and took a seat at our table and introduced himself. His name was Adrian and he was from Germany, in Vegas on business. Shortly after that, I lost the amount of money I was planning on loosing that night so I was getting ready to go to sleep. As soon as I announced that I was leaving the table after my last chip is gone, Adrian started giving me his chips to play with just so I will stay longer. Loosing someone else's money is a lot more fun so I stayed... He was thrilled...
To be continued....
He was sitting at a table next to us by himself. We started chatting about nothing (we were starved, so a meaningless conversation was supposed to help suppress that hunger till our food arrived): where are you from, what are you here for, blah-blah-blah.
Me: I live in Missouri
Older Guy (OG): Oh... I think I have a sister in Missouri
Me: You think? You must not have been keeping in contact
OG: Well, it migh be her sons that live there
Me: You don't know where your nephews live either?
OG: She is not really my sister... My sister died and her soul reincarnated into this woman's body
Me and Rene:?????(puzzled looks, suppressing giggles)
Changing the subject. We started talking about our flights to Vegas.
OG: My son controls air traffic!
Me: That sounds like a great job. He must be enjoying it.
OG: He is... He just turned 5 years old last month...
Me and Rene:??????
This is when I started drinking heavily so can't remember how it all ended...
Tuesday.
We had to do some work on Tuesday from 8am till about 5pm (it took a lot of Starbucks to get us going in the morning. Luckily, there was one in the building where we were meeting). Once we got done, Rene and I had a plan to just walk around the strip and check out different casinos. I won't go into details but we saw some amazing stuff! After eating good food and having a few drinks, we ended up back at our hotel/casino and decided to play some Black Jack.
Now, I am a highroller so I had to wait for a table with $5 min. bets to open up :-) We were having a good time and I noticed this guy sitting at another black jack table who was staring at me. I was intrigued. He came over and took a seat at our table and introduced himself. His name was Adrian and he was from Germany, in Vegas on business. Shortly after that, I lost the amount of money I was planning on loosing that night so I was getting ready to go to sleep. As soon as I announced that I was leaving the table after my last chip is gone, Adrian started giving me his chips to play with just so I will stay longer. Loosing someone else's money is a lot more fun so I stayed... He was thrilled...
To be continued....
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sin City was a blast!
Well, I've been back from Vegas for a few days but was so exhausted from not sleeping for 3 nights :-) that I tried to take lots of naps for a while and then it turned out that I managed to catch a cold somewhere in my travels so I've been sicker than a dog for the last two days. I even left work after being there for only 2 hours today. Considering the fact that I've only taken 3 sick days in the last 8 years, it's pretty serious. I am planning on being better by tomorrow morning though!
Vegas... It was exactly what I expected and then some! I can't say that I've committed any sins that I can't share with the world (fortunately or unfortunately :-)
Monday night:
I arrived around 6:30pm and grabbed a cab to the hotel. Even though I didn't know anyone coming to this conference, I talked to one of the girls via email ahead of time. Rene and I agreed to get together and do something on Mon. night upon arrival.
We freshened up and headed out to explore the city. Had dinner at Stack, a fabulous restaurant at the Mirage Casino. Met a crazy guy (remember this one, I'll give you a recap of our conversation with him some other time.)
Rene said that a friend of hers was from Vegas, so she called a friend of a friend of a friend who was a concierge and knew about what was going on in the city. He put us on the VIP list at Jet (the hottest nightclub at the Mirage). We were seriously scared that the bouncers will kick us out because we had no tickets, we just knew a name to ask for, and then tell this guy we knew so and so. Amazingly, it worked! It was the coolest club I've ever been to. Even though we were pretty tired from the trip, we powered through it and danced till 3 am.
By the way, I was blown away by the guys with brooms, flashlights and dustpans at this club. They appeared out of nowhere within a second of someone dropping or spilling something! Unreal!
Needless to say, the next morning was rough but there was so little time and so many things to see and do...
To be continued...
Vegas... It was exactly what I expected and then some! I can't say that I've committed any sins that I can't share with the world (fortunately or unfortunately :-)
Monday night:
I arrived around 6:30pm and grabbed a cab to the hotel. Even though I didn't know anyone coming to this conference, I talked to one of the girls via email ahead of time. Rene and I agreed to get together and do something on Mon. night upon arrival.
We freshened up and headed out to explore the city. Had dinner at Stack, a fabulous restaurant at the Mirage Casino. Met a crazy guy (remember this one, I'll give you a recap of our conversation with him some other time.)
Rene said that a friend of hers was from Vegas, so she called a friend of a friend of a friend who was a concierge and knew about what was going on in the city. He put us on the VIP list at Jet (the hottest nightclub at the Mirage). We were seriously scared that the bouncers will kick us out because we had no tickets, we just knew a name to ask for, and then tell this guy we knew so and so. Amazingly, it worked! It was the coolest club I've ever been to. Even though we were pretty tired from the trip, we powered through it and danced till 3 am.
By the way, I was blown away by the guys with brooms, flashlights and dustpans at this club. They appeared out of nowhere within a second of someone dropping or spilling something! Unreal!
Needless to say, the next morning was rough but there was so little time and so many things to see and do...
To be continued...
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Important ponderable everyone should ponder.
I think about random stuff a lot. I thought of most of these on my own. The rest are the random thoughts of my friends that have no copy rights to them :-)
* If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
* I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
* If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
* Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
* What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
* I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
* I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . . they were cramming for their finals.
* I thought about how mothers feed their babies with little tiny spoons and forks so I wonder what Chinese mothers use. Perhaps toothpicks?
* Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do . . . write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?
* Never agree to plastic surgery if the doctor's office is full of portraits by Picasso.
* How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there?
* If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for?
* STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS.
* You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
* Clones are people too.
* If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there is he still wrong?
* No one ever says "It's only a game," when their team is winning.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
* Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
* Think "honk" if you're telepathic.
* Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
* If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
* If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
* If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
* So what's the speed of dark?
* Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
* If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?
* I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.
* Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
* Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
* If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
* Disney World is a people trap operated by a mouse?
* Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
* If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
* Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?
* Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
* Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
* If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
* I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
* If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
* Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
* What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
* I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
* I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . . they were cramming for their finals.
* I thought about how mothers feed their babies with little tiny spoons and forks so I wonder what Chinese mothers use. Perhaps toothpicks?
* Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do . . . write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?
* Never agree to plastic surgery if the doctor's office is full of portraits by Picasso.
* How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there?
* If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for?
* STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS.
* You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
* Clones are people too.
* If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there is he still wrong?
* No one ever says "It's only a game," when their team is winning.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
* Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
* Think "honk" if you're telepathic.
* Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
* If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
* If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
* If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
* So what's the speed of dark?
* Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
* If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?
* I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.
* Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
* Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
* If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
* Disney World is a people trap operated by a mouse?
* Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
* If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
* Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?
* Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
* Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
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