Nine Years Later

Most all of us will always remember exactly where we were, what we were doing and how will felt on this date nine years ago. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims families and friends. Today is going to be a tough and very hard day for a lot of people in this country. May the good lord bless all of us and our country during these very difficult times.
My vacation ended yesterday and tomorrow night I will have to drag my tired ass back to work. Coming up I have a Reno trip starting on October 4 and then a Las Vegas trip on November 1. Yesterday we finally booked the airfare for the LV trip and got a great rate of 210 dollars roundtrip. It looks like we will be staying at Palace Station since it will be free unless of course some nice offers from other places come in the next few weeks. All of our good offers from the so called "nice hotels" all run out on Oct.31 so as it stands now Palace Station it is. For those of you who have never been to and even heard of the PS it is a nice mid to low roller locals hotel located off strip behind Circus Circus at the far North end of the strip. The rooms are very nice and pretty good size, the food prices are very cheap and good value and their steakhouse ( the Broiler) is very good at mid range prices with great clam chowder. The casino is good size with a lot of video poker offerings. Comparing it to other local casinos in LV it is not as nice as say The M, Green Valley Ranch, South Point or Red Rock. However it is nice enough, clean, cheap and located in Las Vegas so it is not too bad at all. I think we will probably rent a car this trip and off set the price with what we are saving on the room. I'm excited about going as it has been 6 months since my last trip out and that is way too long!
My vacation was nice in that I did nothing at all but whatever I wanted to do when I finally would wake up in the mornings. Sure I would have rather been at a nice bar in Las Vegas drinking so tall cold ones while playing some VP but hey it still turned out to be a nice week. I did some shopping, met up with some family and friends that I have not seen in awhile, got caught up on my tv shows and watched some football. Sometimes we all have to just take off and recharge our batteries a little bit and this is exactly what I did.
On the VP strategy front, it is coming along slow but forward. I think I finally have settled on a playing strategy that I will use next month and we will see where it goes and how it does in live action. In the back of my head I'm thinking that a good winning trip there and one the following month in LV will lead me to taking even more trips next year as I will then have a bigger bankroll, a winning and trusted strategy and more vacation weeks from work built up in order to go out more. We will see.
Today I'm not going to do too much but watch more football and hang out a little bit with family and friends. It should be a great day of football with some huge big games between rank teams. Should be a interesting and very nice Saturday.
The weather has been very strange again this past week. For a couple of days it was cool in the mornings and very nice during the days with highs in the 80's. Then later in the week it rained like cats and dogs and got cool again. Then yesterday it heated back up to the 90's and was like a mid-August summer day rather than September. Today it should be nice with temps back in the 80's and a nice cool morning. I love September weather and wouldn't mind this year round. I'm almost at the point where I can turn the A/C off at night and open the windows which leads to some of the best sleeping conditions one can hope to ever enjoy.
So that is it from here in the heartland. Hope everyone enjoys their Saturday and have a lot of fun with family and friends.