Random Thoughts

I love September mornings here in the heartland. You wake up or in my case get off work, and it is cool but not cold and has a nice crisp smell to it. You know very well that later in the day it is going to be in the 90's again but hey that is ok since the sun goes down earlier and the morning will again bring a nice cool feel to a start of a wonderful day.
Actually I just love the month of September and everything about it. The month brings the start of school, start of the football season, start of cooler weather, start of the fair, and for people who care about such things ( I don't) the start of the new television season.
Of course the month of September does bring something else with it the start of fall and then winter weather... Yuck! Here in Oklahoma we seem to really have only 2 seasons at times, very hot and humid and very cold and wet with horrible winds thrown in for good measure. You have not lived until you try to drive 25 miles in ice or wet snow just to get to work or the store etc. Of course I'm not looking forward to that but right now I try to clear my mind of what is to come and instead focus on right now and enjoy it while it last.
On the work front last week I think the word "tired" pretty much sums it up. The whole week I was just so very tired and ended up just working and sleeping the whole week away. There were a couple of days when I wouldn't even have dinner but instead just stayed in bed and rested. No I'm not sick or anything but I think having the week off the week before really sort of spoiled me. It didn't help that for a few days there at work it just kicked my ass with alarms strange phone calls and equipment breaking down etc. Hope this week, which starts tonight, is nice and smooth and above all quiet.
On the Las Vegas front, some more friends just got back last week and said the crowds on the weekends are huge again and for the clubs. However the table games are sometimes empty maybe because of the horrible 6-5 rules that the casinos now offer on blackjack and the tightening of comps for machine players. The Plaza Hotel downtown announced that they are closing their rooms so that they can upgrade them...right! Sounds like that old time hotel may just very well close maybe for good. It is a shame really and this type of thing is going on in all walks of life all over the country right now. I could say this is what we get for being "stylish" and electing someone that talks good, rather than the best person for the job. We should be out of this so called recession by now just like in years past but instead it has gotten worse with no end in sight. The upcoming November elections are going to be huge for our country.
On the gambling front my Reno trip is now but 2 weeks away and I'm not ready. Last week I hardly practiced at all due to all the sleeping and now I have 2 strategies that I could use but don't know which one I will try out for real in Reno. One of them is high risk high reward and the other is high risk (money wise) but gives you nice little profits about 90 percent of the time but one session loss will pretty much wipe out your profits and then some. So I have to decide what to do and must keep in mind that I have another trip to Las Vegas planned just 3 weeks after I get back from the Reno trip. The rest of this weekend and all of next week will have to be spent on getting ready and everything down but I'm concerned.
So that is pretty much all that is going on from here in the heartland today. I think I will have some nice pasta later and watch some of the early NFL games. Then it is nap time and maybe some more practice on the old VP play. Hope everyone enjoys their nice Sunday and the weather because change is right around the corner.