Jul
15
2007

Casinos entice
Flashing lights, chinging noises
Come spend your money

I actually gambled yesterday, although I didn’t really know what I was doing. My Mom had given me $5 to play in the slot machines for her, so I put a $5 bill in an Alien slot machine at the Tuscany Casino next door, and pushed the “Spin” button a few times. There were too many buttons! I didn’t know how much I was betting or on what. I stopped after a couple of spins and got my money back: $5.25. I’d won a quarter! I cashed it all in on quarters, planning to go find one of the old-fashioned machines where you stick in a quarter, pull the handle, and either get some quarters back or not—but they didn’t have any like that there. So I came home with my quarters. There are two slot machines in the lounge here at our hotel, though, and they’re the kind you can put a quarter in and pull the handle, so I’ll sit at one of them later and run some of Mom’s quarters through.

Yesterday was a good day. Panels attended were: “Flirting with Darkness: Do Edgier Shows Make Edgier Fandoms?”, which turned out to be mostly about Supernatural, then “LJs and Other Options,” where people talked about post-Strikethrough07 journaling. Pretty much everyone agreed that they’re staying on LJ despite misgivings, because that’s where everyone else is. If fandom is going to move en masse to another journaling site or whatever, it has to be better enough to really pull people there, and right now there is not a good alternative.

I’d meant to go to another panel or two, but I was very tired and ended up going back to the room and sleeping all afternoon, until around 5:30 when it was time to get up and get ready for our dinner at Lawry’s Prime Rib. I had their fish of the day, which turned out to be salmon, and it was extremely delicious, served with scalloped potatoes and beans and carrots. Yum! Then I had a hot fudge sundae for dessert.

We almost went to the movies to see Transformers last night, but it was not to be. Some people were showing movies here at the hotel, so we went there instead. We wanted to see Black Sheep, a funny horror movie about killer sheep, but they were showing some strange and very bad retelling of Pilgrim’s Progress, starring a very young Liam Neeson, first. It was funny-bad at first, but then it just got to be excruciatingly bad. I sat through it, but the chairs were hard and uncomfortable and my back was starting to hurt, and I wanted to come up to the room and wrap my arm, so I skipped the sheep movie and called it a night. Still, it was a fun fannish evening.

Here is a photo of the entrance to the Star Trek Experience.

Star Trek Experience

Written by Cody Nelson in: daily ramble,las vegas,vacation |

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