Vacation Blues.

You know my feeling has been since '96 that any vacation time spent away from Las Vegas is a waste. However when you have 10 weeks of vacation built up at work and they tell you that you can only carry over 12 or risk losing it and next year you will have 15 weeks then yes you better take some even if you can't make it out to Fun City. So this week after Labor Day I decided to take the rest of the week off. I have a Reno trip coming up in less than 4 weeks and a Las Vegas trip 4 weeks after that so this week would be spent staying at home and making the best of it.
So what have I done? Well I spent Tuesday cleaning the house up and taking the car in for a oil change. I also watched some shows that I had on DVR, listened to the Highway Station from Las Vegas on my IPhone and practiced my Video Poker strategy online. Quite exciting right? To make matters worse I have friends in LV right now clowning around and having a lot of fun. They keep sending me text and calls and emails with photos about how much fun they are having without me... the bastards! Here I'm sitting at home trying to save money for my upcoming trips and boy do I miss not being in LV. Well I will have "my time" soon enough. I just hope the weather in Reno the first week of October does not turn into a mess!
So what is on tap for today you ask? Well I'm going to go to the Pizza Buffet, read some books, look at some message boards (LV of course) and practice even more VP online. Why so much practice? I have decided to try a new strategy during the Reno trip and I have to practice that and also the special plays that go with it etc. This strategy was made up for me by a pro player in Arizona that I'm friends with and he said he has never lost with it. The only problem is that it does not win too much and the risk is quite high for little gain. However the "chance" of a nice big hit is there and that is what is exciting about it. Plus the win rate on it is quite high too. So we will see. If this thing crashes and burns in Reno then I can always go back to the old strategy for the Vegas trip a few weeks later. Have to see if this thing works in real time though. I have this vision in the back of my mind of taking those 12 weeks of vacation next year and travel to Las Vegas about once a month to have fun and make money and have the hotels pay for my trip except for airfare. To do this I have to have a winning strategy that continues to win small amounts while waiting for that big hit to come along and make the whole trip positive in the winning bracket. So practice it is and so far it is going well. We will see.
In the news: Saw that one of the lions at MGM went after and attacked a trainer in front of the public a few days ago. This scares me in that they may shut down the whole thing in the future because of events like this. I watched the video of the attack on You Tube as a vistor happened to be there to record it. MGM never issued a statement on it so I guess they are trying to keep it hush hush at this point. The Las Vegas Sun did have an article on it
I also saw that Steve Wynn has banned Paris Hilton from his WYNN Hotel because of the found drugs in her purse. Oh well this just means Ms.Hilton will move on to another hotel casino to party at. In fact I sort of think this is a mistake on Steve's fault. Say what you will about Paris and the hollywood types like her but she does bring in business and people want to see her and be around her and the people like her all the time. Yes this is the problem with out society right now but of course it is "Mob Rules" and that is the way things are right now. Maybe things will change in the future but then again maybe not. I can't worry about things like this since I have a vacation to live right now!