With pictures! And commentary! In some places!

Just made this, hence disproving my position that I don’t see the point in Twitter. Though I’ll likely forget it exists when I get back.
10:02 PM May 2nd from web

Pointlessly expensive phone test
10:14 PM May 2nd from txt

ugh, too goddamn early
3:19 AM May 3rd from web

Put this together last minute — diff between 7:25 flight and 10:30 was $150 each. Surprised i’m awake
4:41 AM May 3rd from txt

Someone on this plane has a kielbasa issue
9:45 AM May 3rd from txt

This part of LAX is pretty dull and generic
10:46 AM May 3rd from txt

I’m about to tell Debb that I started a twitter
10:50 AM May 3rd from txt

Okay, we’re still married. I did get the exaggerated eye roll though
10:54 AM May 3rd from txt

Seeing a number of people with face masks due to SWINE FEAR. Every one of them so far has been Asian
11:19 AM May 3rd from txt

I thought about getting pictures, but really, it’d just be people in face masks.

Another over-booked flight LAX -> LV. Someone forgot to tell vegas about the economy
12:03 PM May 3rd from txt

Viva Las Vegas tarmac
1:20 PM May 3rd from txt

Shuttle to baggage claim, I want to say, where’s your mask, asian dude
1:59 PM May 3rd from txt

Albino kid pictures are blurry — maybe his kind can’t be photographed
2:10 PM May 3rd from txt

Luxor, directions from front desk to elevator: down hall, left at starbucks, left at next starbucks
3:19 PM May 3rd from txt

LV without gambling: the world’s biggest mall where everyone wants to walk where you’re walking
5:55 PM May 3rd from txt

@mom: I know nothing about twitter except what you see here
7:25 PM May 3rd from txt

I sent my mom a text about the Twitter I set up, and then she tried to call me for tech support. In Vegas.

A 10:30 show seemed like a good idea until my body reminded me it thinks it’s 12:30
10:26 PM May 3rd from txt

Body also says: sleep 10 hours
11:38 AM May 4th from txt

We figure we walked about 8 miles yesterday. Protip: signs that point to where you want to go spiral inward towards slots
11:58 AM May 4th from txt

The first of many lying arrows pointing towards the monorail. We were tired of walking, wanted to get north to some other hotels, and this particular arrow points to the MGM Grand, in which are other directional arrows pointing “towards” the monorail which are in fact a walking tour of their slot machines.

There may be invisible pedestrian traffic signs in vegas only visible after you breathe the air a while.
12:52 PM May 4th from txt

Seriously, it’s like half the time we were scooting out of people’s way. Although man, later in the trip as we were getting sick of it, Debb totally slammed someone with her shoulder on purpose, that rocked. There was still more crowd coming after that, and I was hoping she’d hit another one (later she told me she was hoping so too), but then people started getting out of her way. A message must’ve gone out on VegasPedestriNet that she was “cool”.

Can anyone out there tell me if this thing is on?
12:53 PM May 4th from txt

I’d mistaken what messages from Twitter were about. I thought you could get messages back on your phone. When I was getting packed for the trip, I had the geeks dilemma: laptop or not? Twitter was gonna be my happy medium: limited connectivity but at least I’d get response every so often. But eh, wasn’t a big loss, really.

I thought Debb and I would be an island me black in a sea of pastel and floral prints — usually the case, but not here, duh
1:34 PM May 4th from txt

Steve: about to drop your 20 in wheel of fortune
2:13 PM May 4th from txt

Steve gave me 20 bucks to blow on something.

Got up to 35 but went back down to 20 and I stopped there
2:18 PM May 4th from txt

…but actually he didn’t, he didn’t have it on him at the time, so I lent him 20 bucks, and said I’d bet it for him, and if I didn’t make him anything he’d owe it to me. But after getting the money back down to 20 bucks, I decided it’d be weird to show up to work Monday and say “okay you owe me 20 bucks now”.

Mom tells me she’s sending messages but I guess it’s not set to send them to my phone, damn
4:17 PM May 4th from txt

oh I see, twitter doesn’t send msgs to my phone how I expected. damn, that would nearly have made it useful
4:35 PM May 4th from web

Seeing Penn & Teller shortly — got here early and got much better seats than we page for
8:41 PM May 4th from txt

Great show! They know real magic, because I actually like the after show pic I got with them
10:53 PM May 4th from txt

Which you won’t be seeing.

Ha ha I just woke up. In Vegas.
10:08 AM May 5th from txt

Amazing weather. Thought it was going to be unbearably hot, but it’s not
12:06 PM May 5th from txt

Takes me a while to loosen up, I only really started relaxing today. Of course I’m leaving tomorrow.
1:40 PM May 5th from txt

During the day, the fremont st experience is just “shade”
2:47 PM May 5th from txt

Google it, I can’t do everything for you.

Circus circus is dull dull
3:55 PM May 5th from txt

Found good shumai. Wonder if they deliver
5:34 PM May 5th from txt

I think I’ll…(pause, smirk, head tilt) *tweet*
7:12 PM May 5th from txt

Pre-show women pretending to be cats and crawling around staring at patrons (go away!)
8:01 PM May 5th from txt

Went to a show called Ignite that was…eh. Well, you could appreciate the work they were putting into it, anyway, but partially it featured old magic tricks that I am surprised anyone is doing anymore. (woman being “covered” by sheet, and then mysteriously floating, and then pulling away the cover and she’s magically disappeared? seriously?) But before the show there were cat women doing that hassle-the-audience thing. One had just come over to start commenting on Debb’s hair, but she was saved by the bell as the show started just then.

Trump Tower is as golden as His flaxen Mane, renewed fortnightly
12:58 AM May 6th from txt

Oh, wanted to try a do-over, forgot:
Trump Tower is as golden as His flaxen Mane, renewed fortnightly on His dazzling Scalp with silken thread by His disposable girlfriends

Ten bucks on the Lions at 80:1 for Dave — vegas says thanks for the tip
10:14 AM May 6th from txt

I did not know that pickup usual limos existed
11:06 AM May 6th from txt

Oh huh…that was supposed to be, “pickup Ford limos”, wasn’t watching my auto-entry there.

Me: Steve, should I play your last $20? Steve: hell no, bring that home
12:25 PM May 6th from txt

Going through Dallas to get home, Debb and I sitting apart from each other, blah
12:59 PM May 6th from txt

Well, twitter’s done one useful thing for me — kept me from forgetting my phone on the plane
3:51 PM May 6th from txt

True. I left it in the front pocket and would totally forgotten it unless I’d had the urge to twitter something.

Making funny faces at your wife across the airplane aisle is received oddly by the guy next to her
4:51 PM May 6th from txt

The airport Taco Bell table at which we ate was judged “LEAST CRUDDY”by Entertainment Weekly
6:11 PM May 6th from txt

Home landing delayed due to Chicago storms; going home to our personal basement aqua-slots where jackpot is “nothing”
8:26 PM May 6th from txt

I’ve found it’s easier on my nerves if I just don’t look forward when my taxi’s on the highway
8:49 PM May 6th from txt

I an amused by the remnants of bad 80’s company name trends
8:55 PM May 6th from txt

I took the Accenture picture because I thought it was funny that their touchscreen thing wasn’t working, especially in such a prominent location…but then I realized that they probably turned it off because of the dumbass swine flu scare, so they didn’t have all random people smearing their DNA all over it.

Home. The damages: about $150 in gambling losses, walking-forever-blisters, slightly bored-cat-scratched rug
9:41 PM May 6th from web

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