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you’ll find us in every casino

The General and I are forgoing large scale Christmas presents for each other this year (last year, there was a new camera and a Kitchenaid mixer involved in our holiday celebration) and go to Vegas in February (or early March) instead. That’s a decision I can live with.

Last time I went to Las Vegas, it was my first time. I was certain I was going to come back with stories involving hitting several jackpots (on the nickel slot machines), but instead, I just came back with stories involving a man dressed in a leisure suit trying to go to the bathroom in the kitchen of the nicest restaurant I’ve ever been to in my life and a blackjack dealer that entertained us with tales of where we could or couldn’t walk in downtown Vegas without getting robbed of all our possessions.

This time around, I’m more excited to share it with The General (the second trip for both of us) and visit more places than just the casinos. While I’m sure we’ll spend a fair amount of time in them, I can’t imagine myself taking a lot of time with the online casino reviews I’ve read over in the past.

Fatburger (totally typed Fartburger) and Coyote Ugly are on my list of MUST SEES this time around. I kind of want to go visit a drive thru wedding chapel, not necessarily to get married but to witness someone else’s bad middle-of-the-night, drunk-off-giant-sized-margaritas mistake. And maybe a quick visit to Mike Tyson’s house to kidnap his tiger while we’re at it. (I need to watch Hangover again before we go… more as things to AVOID.)

this isn’t begging; it’s just whining

For a few months now, I’ve been deeply (and I do mean deeply) coveting an Apple iPod touch. I know it seem a bit much, but do you know how old my current iPod is? I bought it when I lived with The Roommates, so it’s around four or five years old. I don’t even know what a new iPod looks like on the screen, but mine’s all gray and boring. It’s so hold the clicker thing at the bottom is ROTARY. (Possibly not true.)

I’ve been looking at Apple’s website a lot, thinking maybe one day they’ll just all of a sudden drop the prices to $25 or something like that, but to no avail. I just realize that my iPod (Generation -525, I’m sure) holds 15GB or maybe even 10GB. I don’t know. When I bought my last iPod-related item, it was an iPod shuffle. It hung around your neck by a string and it was white. There was none of this fancy multi-color, clip onto your shirt, and even comes in stainless steel type of shuffle.

The only time, and I do mean absolute only time, I miss working two jobs (the Sales Monkey job at the software company and the part time gig at Best Buy) was the ridiculous amounts of expendable income (and employee discount!) I had. It made not getting left behind in the technology dirt so much easier.

In the meantime, if you’re feeling generous, I would absolutely not complain if you wanted to order an iPod touch for me. I’ll gladly take the 8GB version and provide you with this handy link to my Amazon wishlist.

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