Job Opportunity

Looking at the latest Harrah's blog update today and they mentioned that the Chippendales auditions are this week:

Seeking male LEADS with exceptional physical builds and the ability to learn fully choreographed production numbers. Must be at least 5' 10". Also seeing attractive MC's and VOCALISTS who move well.

Sounds like this might be perfect for some of you. I'm not coordinated enough for fully choreographed production numbers and Luke might not make the height requirement, but I'm sure he could make it as an "attractive MC."

Thanksgiving in Vegas 2009 Update

Just a reminder that Vegas will be giving away money over Thanksgiving. So far we've got:

JT and Lisa

Nunnrey and Kaci

James and Shey

Michael, are yall in or out?

The invite is open to anyone interested. We are staying at the Bellagio. I believe we all get there on Wednesday, November 25. Some of us are leaving the night of Saturday, November 28, and some are leaving on Sunday morning.

Vegas To Do Item

Deja Vu in Las Vegas has taken advertising to a new level. When in Vegas I'm sure you've seen the trucks driving around with the stripper billboards and all of the cabs with strip club ads, etc. Deja Vu now has a live stripper on a pole in a truck cruising The Strip. You can check out the video at Fox 5 Vegas.

Thanksgiving in Vegas

Starting to work on plans for another Vegas trip. Right now we're looking at heading out there for the Thanksgiving holidays. We (Nunnrey, Shey, me) did this in 2007 and it was great. We ate a buffet for t-day dinner and watched a lot of football while at the tables and slots. It wasn't very busy which made it even better.

Right now it sounds like JT and Lisa are in and Nunnrey and Kaci are in discussions. Anybody else interested?

Let Me Post That For You: Winna Winna Chicken Dinna

From Nunnrey's recent Vegas trip:

This pains me to write because I know the reaction that I'm going to receive...

The Vegas trip was pretty good, I think I calculated costs being between 400-500 bucks going into the last day of the trip (excluding airfare, including tickets to "Peepshow" and a couple room upgrades). At any rate, John and James, you owe me 25 bucks each for the gamblin'...which we'll call even because of the horseracing win you had last week ($33.00 profit) and because 4 hours before I got on the plane to come home on Saturday I hit $1800 on a triple wild cherry...

I've attached the pictures so you could virtually enjoy Vegas.... I didn't get in nearly enough gamblin', so I'll likely be ready again in a few months.

JT, I've added the additional pictures and audio for your entertainment... play yinyang.wav while viewing yinyang.jpg, it'll feel like you are there.

Few things:

• As I'm sitting in the hotel lobby I don't have an easy way to give you the audio file Nunnrey included, but it's some dumb (and racist) slot machine sound that is supposed to be an Asian sound effect.
• Not sure what reaction he was afraid of receiving...just give me my cut and we're good.
• Been chatting with JT/Nunnrey about the next Vegas trip. Will most likely be sometime later in the year. Been kicking around maybe spending Thanksgiving there if anyone is interested.

Wheel of Fortune

As some of you are aware, the Wheel of Fortune slots are an all time favorite of our Vegas crew.  Some chick won $2.4 million on one during her first trip to Vegas this week while celebrating the "remembrance of her grandmother's birthday."  You can read about it at FoxNews.com.

I guess that's a decent enough excuse to get to Vegas.  I wonder if she was using any of the Winning Slot Moves?

Vegas Wrap-up: The Outing

Some final ramblings from the Vegas trip:

• No luck on the $5 slots this time around. Lost half of the investment Thursday night at MGM Grand and then lost the rest of it the next night at The Palms. Gave it one last shot with $100 in a $5 Wheel of Fortune on the way out, but didn't hit jack.
• I earned 1700+ points at The Palms playing on the video poker machines. I might have a touch of carpal tunnel now. Total I think I racked up 3500+ points at The Palms including other slots.
• After two nights of losing at the tables I had all but decided not to play on my last night, but then I saw The Palms had a $5 blackjack table (yep that was on Friday night). I couldn't pass that up so I decided to try my luck with $100. Within 15 minutes I got up to about $190 and was set on walking away if I could get to $200. Well, you know how that goes...didn't quite work out that way, but I did walk away with my original $100 and a few beers in me.
• All in all we really enjoyed The Palms.

I guess I'll now explain the title reference to The Outing. Thursday night while watching some college football with Michael and his girl (Iris), she began telling us some more about Michael. Michael had mentioned that they had known and worked with each other for quite a while now, but they never really talked. Michael went on to say that Iris had a friend that was sort of into him, but Iris was steady talking her out of it. Then Iris chimed in that she was talking her friend out of it because she thought Michael was gay.

Iris went on to explain that it was somewhat common knowledge around the workplace that Michael is gay. Iris said she even asked her gay boss to use his super gaydar powers to get the truth. The boss confirmed, Michael is definitely gay.

I don't think Michael appreciated Iris running her mouth since he specifically thanked her (sarcasm inserted) for telling me. And I believe he said something along the lines of, "...now he's going to blog about it and all of my friends will be giving me sh!t for months to come." Michael doesn't know us very well. We won't be giving him a hard time for months to come. Just ask Nunnrey...he's been hearing that chicken lover story for over 8 years now.

Anyway, Michael seemed happy and Iris seems to be doing a good job of converting him straight. Try to take it easy on Michael's gayness. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Vegas Report

Observations from the Vegas trip so far:

• Our room at Hooters smells like chicken wings. I sort of like it.
• Our first room at Hooters smelled like skunk and didn't have linens. Didn't really like that which is why we moved to the chicken wing room.
• Our room at The Palms is nice...too bad it's so far away. And yes, we're high rollers like that with two rooms. They both offered up some free rooms and free play so we booked them both. We stayed at Hooters last night so we could be closer to Michael over at Planet Hollywood.
• New York-New York is not the way I remember it. The Big Apple Bar is under construction to be something new. The middle of the casino is walled off and they are building something in there. The rest of the casino has been re-arranged. I do not like it.
• Nunnrey is still texting me thinking he is going to actually show up out here this weekend. Frankly, I'm not sure what the hold up is...I already found him tickets for < $300 and he has some free/cheap room deals.
• Michael did the smart thing and got him an Asian girl. We already have an immediate bond and can point and laugh at the two crackers we're with.
• Slot report: not to shabby so far. Have played Wheel of Fortune at 3 casinos and they've all been friendly enough to let me walk away even. Shey...not so much.
• Against my better judgement after everyone went to bed I went back downstairs to play some blackjack. Hooters has $3 blackjack 24/7. Of course that table was full so I decided to sit at the $10 table. Was down $100 in less than 5 minutes, but wanted to give myself a chance to grind it out and get back to even. Well, let's just say the only thing that was ground out was my chip stack. I couldn't ever get back up to even (probably $50 shy at best) and I finally gave up $150 down because I was falling asleep. The one thing I did win...a DVD. They have some promotion going on that if you get a suited blackjack you get What Happens in Vegas. That might be the most expensive DVD I ever purchased.
• Let's hope for some big money when we play the pooled $5 cherry. Nunnrey...you could come do it in person tonight if you want. Don't be scared.

Winning Slot Moves

I'm headed to Vegas tomorrow night to meet up with Michael. Because of this I'm reading up on my Vegas news and I ran across an article called 100% Guaranteed Slot Machine Voodoo Maneuvers. It includes some techniques like: The Wipe, The Knock, The Sit, The Peekaboo, etc. While these are entertaining (and I may try some of them out) I think they are missing some of the proven winners we know and love:

• Hello New User: When you are on a bad streak using pooled money you simply swap out the player cards to trick the machine into thinking a new user has sat down. You'll also need to say in a computer voice, "Hello, New User" when the slot greets you on its electronic display. Advanced: Cash out the ticket and then re-use the same ticket after the card swap.
• The Massage: Just like a woman, a slot machine needs to be caressed a bit before she'll pay out. Give the machine a nice rub down.
• The Claw: This is Shey's favorite, but it's worked for me on several occasions. Pull the lever and hold it in the fully engaged position until all reels stop spinning.
• The Smoker: Have your smoking partner blow smoke at the machine while playing. Slots love to smoke. A slot that isn't afraid to smoke isn't afraid to pay out.

And of course there are others, but I don't want to spill all of our secrets.

Lance Armstrong must run our lawn service

This morning when I arrived at work it was raining. I noticed that the water sprinkler system was still on full blast as well. Makes me wonder if Lance Armstrong runs our lawn service since he likes his water.

In other exciting news the Vegas trip is coming up next week. Let Michael and I know when you are getting there. I hear they will be giving away tons 'o money while we're there.

August Vegas Trip

Sounds like a small Vegas trip is brewing for late in August. I'm looking specifically at Wednesday, August 27 through Saturday, August 30. College football starts that Thursday. If you are interested let me know.