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(11:14:44 AM) kyle: Ok I drank 64 oz of pineapple juice this morning

i've uploaded all my vegas pics. i've also pared them down a lot, so that not every freakin pic is visible.

(5:36:49 PM) mike: ...why cant i just be a millionare and do hoes all day

it's pretty quiet at sam's town now, being that it's sunday night at like 1am. i just drove back from the orleans, where i ate some fried rice at koji's.

on the drive back, i saw some lightning, which i recorded with my camera. [video here] the lightning is still happening, and it's making me turn to look out the window.

craziest moment: ok, my standards for craziness are probably different from that of others, but.. craziest thing i saw was a guy dropping $100+ per hand of blackjack, at a table where the minimum bet is 3 bucks (at the sahara). he would lose, then open up his wallet and put a benjamin on the table, over and over again. it was nuts. wendi sat right next to him to play, and i stood by her, watching. the guy won a couple of times, but he seemed to mostly lose. he kept getting hands between 14-17.

ok, the other craziest moment happened during the above-mentioned blackjack as well. on one of her hands, wendi decided to bet $10. she had been betting $3-5 every time up to that point. anyway, she bet $10, and the dealer dealt her her cards: two aces! so she double-downed split her aces and put up another $10. the dealer then dealt her the next cards, and BOTH were face cards! she got two aces, then two face cards, for two 21s blackjacks, on the one time she decided to bet $10. i'd say that's crazier than the guy betting $100+ per hand, just cuz.. what are the freakin odds? huh? seriously. crazy. she played another hand (which she won), and then cashed out. she left with +$30 after putting in $20 to begin with. nice.

best buffet, out of bellagio, planet hollywood, and sam's town: probably bellagio. bellagio had more stuff, like a lot of good fish (chilean sea bass, alaskan halibut, salmon, and marlin), but spice market at planet hollywood had 3 things i really really liked: soy mushroom salmon, cajun stuffed pork loin with baked apples, and fruit tarts. these 3 were the bomb diggity, as kyle would say.

pic is only of the label cuz there was no more fish left.


soy mushroom salmon is on this plate, lower right.

i noticed that there's a lot of christian rock music stations here. ok, there's like 2 or 3. but that's infinitely more than what's available in san diego, or anywhere else i've been.

speaking of music.. classical music is like the best music ever. it's beyond impressive, the sheer compositional and songwriting genius. second best is pop music, or any music that is catchy.

the cafe at mgm grand (next to grand wok and sushi bar) is pretty good. planet dailies at planet hollywood is like a smaller version of it.

after staying a bit far from the strip, i'm thinking it's better to stay on or near the strip. this is of course because i don't really know what to do so far from the strip. but yeah, having to drive like 15-20 mins from the strip to the hotel is pretty inconvenient. then again, driving along the strip with traffic being a constant thing might not be a whole lot better.

'O' was good, except there was a girl in the row in front of us who was extremely annoying. she would laugh out loud every time a little comedic thing happened. it was serioulsy every little thing.. even things that, from a normal person, would elicit maybe a mild chuckle via the nose. and i really mean she LOLed. like, imagine an LOL in real life. it's like a sudden, really loud and really fast HAHAHA, right? something that someone would do right when they realized the hilarity of a joke or something. well, yeah, that's what she did. it was so loud and piercing, you could just call it a cackle, cuz her voice was almost raspy when she did it. on top of that, she must've thought she was in a rock concert or something because for every little impressive thing, she would go "WOOOOOO!" or "WOO WOOOOO!", and it would echo during the quiet parts, so you could tell that she was the only person in the entire theatre who was doing it. the people next to her would look over and just give this "what the fuck?" look. man. i was pissed off at her and embarrassed for her at the same time. i blame her parents, who were sitting on either side of her. [video here]

it's almost 2 and there's still lightning outside.

gambling is really weird. i don't see how someone could get into it, unless they kept winning and winning.

a cool thing about vegas is that virtually anything goes. no one would be considered a weirdo in these parts, cuz people here have seen everything.

my execution in 3s is OK.. but i need to work on my mind games. there are the basic 50/50 setups, or even 33/33/33.. but the most important thing is to lull the opponent into doing something or into following a pattern.

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ok, now it's almost 6pm, and i'm at mccarran airport. i couldn't post what i wrote last night because there was no internet at the hotel. anyway, there is like no one here. i don't know whether it's cuz i'm just at a terminal where no flights will be taking off anytime soon, or because it's monday night.

i ate at capriotti's today. i had been planning on going to the paris buffet for lunch.. but i just didn't feel like a buffet. i think i'm buffeted out. fresh sandwiches just sounded better, and i wanted to go to capriotti's anyway. so yeah, i got the homemade roast beef, with everything.



it was really good. i highly recommend going there. i'll be going again fo sho.

driving around the back streets in vegas is trickier than i thought it'd be. i wanted to avoid the traffic on the strip, but ultimately got lost more than i saved time. it would've worked had i known the area better.

alright, time to board. i'll try to upload some vids later.. but probably not.

for the voracious reader: bookswim. netflix for books.

saw this on lifehacker.com: what your food cravings are telling you. it's a really straightforward table that shows you some healthy foods that have what your body is really craving when it is craving something.

turns out i always seem to lack nitrogen, calcium, chloride, and manganese.

some good advice on how to make a big decision.. like where to eat for lunch.

(3:55:42 PM) mike: oh no i can't find my chapstick...emergency
(3:55:54 PM) wuziq: oh no
(3:55:56 PM) wuziq: what a nightmare
(3:56:30 PM) mike: i can feel my lips cracking already then i'm bleed to death then die
(3:56:43 PM) mike: all because i didnt have my chapstick with me
(3:56:56 PM) wuziq: shit

kyle's brethren is in this match that just happened yesterday in japan:

he's the purple ken.