We’ve returned from our Vegas weekend.  We aren’t any richer, but we aren’t any poorer either.  We only gambled away three or four bills, which ain’t bad for high rollers like us.  And those bills were George Washingtons, not Ben Franklins.  Doni got bumped on her flight home and got a $200 voucher, so the way I figure it we won $200.

I enjoyed the trip more than I thought I would.  I must have been having a pretty good time; we stayed out until 1:00 every night, which is 3:00 KC time.  Quite wacky for us.  I thought about calling the Brooksider and seeing if they could kick me out over the phone, since I will almost certainly never stay out that late here.  We saw a concert at Mandalay Bay hotel while we were there, and THAT was cool.  Rather strange venue; they had a big stage out by the swimming beach, and they gave you towels to sit on when you came in.  There’s a very good chance my knees will never straighten back out from sitting on the ground for that long.  Actually, we sat through the Gin Blossoms and then went up front and stood in the pool for the Spin Doctors.  Very loud and a little wet, but fun.  We took a tour to the Hoover Dam too; that was very cool but we’d already seen it so nothing new.

Photos are up here.

Here’s the fantabulous new format for the current events page.  I’ve been resisting using this, mostly because it’s called a “Blog”.  Gimme a break.  Fat Boy Phil was blogging when blogging wasn’t cool, man.  I should have sued when they came out with that word.  It ain’t a “blog”, it’s “current events”.  Whatever.  You say tomato, I say current events.

Anyway… I’ve been slacking off a bit already on the updates.  BUT, the site has not been totally idle.  I’ve been working on “stuff”.  IMPORTANT “stuff”.  And then there was this thing with my “production” pc that shut me down for about two days.  I was out messing around on some rather nefarious websites, researching some rather nefarious information, see.  (No, not THAT kind of nefarious… I was looking for a particular sequence of alpha-numeric characters, relative to a particular program.  Get your minds out of the gutter.)  Next thing I know, I got browser hijacked like never before.  Holy smokes, it was nasty.  If you ever open Internet Explorer and your default homepage has been changed to “searchpage.html” and your Media Player no longer works, get ready to do some research.  Not as easy as changing your homepage back and running Ad-Aware, I’ll tell you that.  Bad stuff man.  Serves me right I guess.  All is well now though.

Doni is out in Las Vegas right now, some kind of work convention.  I’ll be joining her on Wednesday night, for a little vacation.  Being as I despise gambling almost as much as the word “blog”, I’m not sure how much I will enjoy it, but it should provide a little entertainment.  Sounds too hot for my taste.  I am hoping for some good food though, and we’re going to see a concert, so who knows.  Being optimistic and open-minded by nature, I’m sure I will have a good time.