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A Writer's Life6 May 2005

2nd Vegas Stats

Current Location: Kitchen Table, Home, Las Vegas, NV Current Weather: 79F, In the shaded patio Current Reads: Thong stories Movies this week: Monster In Law Days in Vegas since the move: 20 Times I've played poker: At least 3 Times I've played bacarat: At least 7 Times I've played craps: 2 Money won: more than $200 Money lost: possibly more than $400 Poker players strongly suggesting I stay away from table games: 2 Cheapest price of unleaded gas I've found: $2.35 Number of restaurants I've been to since last post: 3 that I can remember Number of days till next poker tourney: 3 Number of friends I'll probably see there: 0 Where the poker players are: Lake Tahoe Most guys hitting on me in one night: 3 Biggest number of guys that were hitting on me at the exact same time: 2 Strangest place to get hit on: 99cent Store at 9:30 a.m. Requests to change 99 Nights from a diary to a memoir: 1 Biggest worry about new memoir: I need to have sex in order for it to be a good book 2nd biggest worry about new memoir: I'll be super picky the first 90 days and then not picky at all the last 9 Biggest worry that has nothing to do with the memoir: I'm going to trip running on the treadmill 3rd biggest worry about the new memoir: I won't have time to write it Number of people offering to ghost write it: 1 Number of women offering to ghost write it: 0 Chances of me staying in Vegas for through 2005: bet on it Number of predictions that haven't come true from the Irish Psychic: 1 Times I've thought about going to see the psychic at the Palms but didn't: 2 Days I've been so happy I was't concerned with what came next: All but one Number of these happy days I needed to be on stress mints: 3 Number of grouchy days: 1 Number of grouchy days I forgot to take my stress mints: 1 Women I'm picking up at the airport after midnight tonight: 4 Number of days this weekend I'll probably take my stress mints: 3 Favorite time of day: When I leave the house and see the big clouds Best time to see great clouds in Vegas: Late morning - early afternoon Number of times since the first 24 hours that I've had to get out a map to find out where I'm going: 0 Number times I've been to the new Wynn: 1 Times I drove around just to look at the strip: 1 Nights I got home before midnight: Lots, nobody is bugging me to go out Days I got up before 8 a.m.: Almost every day this week Best time for me to wake up if I want to be immediately happy: 6:45 a.m. Wifi Girl: The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Maryland Pkwy, Panera on Fort Apache Times I had to speed up just to be driving the speed limit: Lost count after 8 Times I was going more than the speed limit and got passed by an old lady: 1 Important letters/emails I'm behind on writing: 5 Empty weekend slots for a visitor this month: 1-2, depending on whose visiting What are you up to?

5 comments

  • miguel6 May 2005
    Southwest flights are $50 from LA. When can I come and visit?
  • Jen Leo6 May 2005
    I don't think you'll want to come until the last nine days of my trip. Go away. ;-)
  • Stan the Man7 May 2005
    I find this blog inherently boring. The writing style does not engage me.
  • gary9 May 2005
    Yeah, but at least she's tryin. Better to do and suck, than to not do and say, you suck. How hard is it to say, you suck? You suck for saying she sucks. See how easy that was? As I told my business partner once, there are two types of people in the world: those who fuck up and those who criticize those who fuck up. Which one is you?
  • Dusty9 May 2005
    Well said Gary. I am hooked on this blog. The market leads have been most helpful. Well, each one to his or her own tastes, I guess!