Doug called me at about 4:25 AM to tell me that Carson had been born at 1 AM PT on March 8, 2006. He’s 8 pounds and 20 inches long and it sounds like everyone is doing fine. More later
I took what is being perceived as the cliche “sick day after coming back from Las Vegas” today, but in fact, I am really not feeling great. I think it’s a combination of the lack of sleep and all of the smoke in that city, not to mention the travel that did me in. Whether…
I am sitting at LAX at the moment, waiting to get on the flight that will take me back home. It has been a long, fun weekend, one filled with everything except sleep. I didn’t have time to update this blog in “real time”, but will be backdating the entries for the last three days,…
We ended up at In ‘n’ Out, which I hadn’t had in a very long time. I ordered a Double-Double combo and fell on that burger like a wolf on a lamb. The fries too. I added in a chocolate shake for dessert. I watched Vicky dip her burger in ketchup, which is something I’d…
Norm, Vicky and I headed out to Red Rock Canyon to do some hiking and geocaching. It was about a half hour drive outside of Las Vegas. We stopped at the information building to get a map, as well as some water (which we had forgotten to bring), and then set about driving “around the…
I had an afterthought this morning about the bathroom in Olympic Gardens. It was an interesting bathroomin that it was “attended”. In other words, there was a man in the rest room, who made sure the sink was clean and dry and would provide you with towels, and to whom you could give a tip.…
As luck would have it, I slept about 2-1/2 hours and was up, tossing and turning at 7:30 AM. I was stressed about going hiking, and going to breakfast, and decided that what I needed to do was take a shower. I still smelled like smoke from a few hours before, and while I felt…
This was the highlight of the trip–the part that everyone had been waiting for. After the girls left us downtown, we six guys piled into two taxis and headed to a placed called Olympic Gardens which bills itself as an adult caberet. (Trevor, close your eyes if you are reading this.) There was a $20…
We ended up meeting for dinner at 10 PM at P.F. Chang’s, where I ordered what I thought was a small salad. I turned out to be one of the biggest salads I’d ever seen in my life. After dinner, we literally squeezed into two taxis and headed “downtown” to Fremont. Some of the guys…
Today was my first real, prolonged exposure to casinos. They are a bizzaire phenomenon, an interesting evolution of architecture, desire, hope, and dispair. If I believed in an afterlife, I would think that a large casino floor would make a perfect hell. First of all: the huge, tremendous spaces. From one end, you can’t see…