Reflections on Las Vegas

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I have no clue what people are thinking bringing their children to “Sin City” and expecting… What? No booze, prostitutes, gambling?

We accidentally offended some woman coming back from the pool with her kid.

She saw us as we got to the bank of elevators leading to our room. As we approached, she stormed into an elevator and we followed her in.

We didn’t even realize she was stressing until we were in the elevator. Wow, what a tense situation.

I’ll admit it took me a bit to figure out why she was shooting daggers at us and keeping her kid from looking around.

My Brother and I were both looking a little raw, and he was carrying a big ol plastic cup of booze. When I finally had the “Ahh Ha” moment all I could do was smirk.

Come to think of it we both probably smelled a bit boozy too. I think we were coming back from a shopping trip that included whiskey, rum, stetsons, lunch and beer. Hey, you only live once and we were having fun.

It’s not like the hotels have a “Boozed Up” elevator! We have the right to get to our room too. What the hell did that lady expect? It’s VEGAS, you know, it’s for adults!

She should count herself dang lucky we didn’t have some companions for the evening. Her kid would have gotten a real education!

If you want no smoking, no booze, and no guys walking into an elevator looking like they’d been rode hard and put up wet, then just 4 and a half hours southwest by car is a place designed for good clean family fun. Have at it! They call it the “Happiest Place on Earth”.

Eh, maybe, I like the house of the mouse but only in small doses, separated by decades. I prefer the mouse house in Florida if it comes to going there.

I think I prefer the more adult diversions, lord knows, Las Vegas has those in abundance.

There’s an entire side of Las Vegas that I haven’t sampled yet. The next time I go, I think I’ll explore it.

Hopefully I won’t get in too much trouble.

Its Vegas Baby!

20140117-101803.jpg Before you get the wrong impression. It’s not been a trip of debauchery, not yet anyway!

Hanging with my Brother has been great.

Vegas is a strange place, it truly is configured as an adult playground.

Everything is designed to make all your common sense go out the window and make you more likely to spend money in one way or another.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, it’s just interesting to note.

Connectivity is hit and miss. I was thinking that was strange, but then again the last thing the hotels want is you looking at your iPad or computer. They want you wandering in the shopping areas, or casinos.

As I’ve wandered around I can’t help thinking this is a proof of concept for our future in space or a future on a hostile planet. It’s possible to go from hotel to hotel without ever seeing the light of day.

The movie Wall-e springs to mind.

Today’s picture is from the hotel room.

Those mountains look inviting.

The noise and hubbub of the city is something I don’t think I could put up with for very many days.

His journey to the dark side is complete!

My friend who’s a new iPhone, iPad user has in fact taken quite well to the conversion.

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How do I know this?

A running conversation through airports across the nation. via iMessage; Messages sent at oh dark thirty (his time) from his iPhone. 

And the final proof!

A status email sent this morning that ended; “sent from my iPad”

Muhahahahahahaha!

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Welcome to the dark side my friend.

You’ll enjoy the products and I’m sure that more Apple devices are in your future.

Your expression when I showed you what an iPad and Apple TV could do together, told me you’ll have a couple within the month. That didn’t even include my showing you how to manage porn.

I also suspect that you will replace your Windows computer with a Mac of some kind. It’s inevitable.

I love it when not only do I convert someone, I’m especially gratified when they take to the conversion like ducks to water!

Now if we can just get you over that pesky data cap fear.

 

Christmas Eve

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Many folks will be off work, others will be doing 1/2 days. Those in Retail will of course be working their fingers to the bone!

I’m planning on going to a party then being home pretty early.

The other half is going to be at a couple of Christmas services. then we expect to be home for Christmas.

We’re hoping it will be a quiet couple of days.

I like Christmas, but I also look forward to the season being finished.

It just gets so crazy that unless I’m taking really deep breaths, or I have a love lunch & drinks with a friend prior to shopping I get and stay really grumpy until Christmas eve night.

I’m going to take the rest of Christmas Eve and all of Christmas day off, from technology. I may have the computer on, but I’m not blogging, or Tweeting.

I’m just not going to be up for a tweet war during the holiday.

Have a safe and very happy holiday.

All the best.