A Whole Hour, WOO HOO!!!

Good morning everyone.  I've got a bonus post for you today because I've figured out how the library works and I am coming at you with a full 60 minutes in my arsenal.  Just shove aside an elderly lady, a few small children, and a puppy dog...  (just kidding - I would never be mean to a puppy dog)...  ;)  I thought that since I've been running errands all morning and that I've got so much to say, I would stop by and visit my readers before I got into the apartment and job search.  This library actually will allow me to use the computer for an hour each day, and they are open five days a week, AND you are allowed extra time if you notify the reference desk that you are filling out an application, so you're stuck with me.  By the way, this session is also cool like yesterday's in that there is a clock at the top of the monitor counting down my minutes.  I know FOR A FACT that if I had a countdown clock at the top of my desktop on a full-time basis and stuck to an hour each day, I would have a much more productive life...  :P 

Let's make poker our first topic, since that will be my topic of choice tomorrow (I HAVE to get my teaser in here again).  Tomorrow will be the entry where I talk about the ONE no-limit hand that got me even (actually ahead) in poker since my arrival back in the desert after more than 20 hours of limit sessions, but I will give you a few poker tidbits since you were kind enough to stop by today.  First, the M Resort & Casino has some GREAT promotions running this month (they actually run good poker room promotions every month, but I returned just in time for August)...  :)  I would love to work there if the opportunity presents itself in the future, but short of that, it will definitely be a room that I frequent often, especially if I can find a place to live in Henderson or Green Valley.  For those of you who don't have a map of the valley handy, Henderson and GV are both just to the south of Las Vegas.  Henderson was actually the first place that I lived that last time that I was here, before moving just east of the Strip to be closer to my job.  One promotion that I cashed in on already was receiving a bottle of wine for playing two hours on Sunday morning.  That session came at the end of an interesting Saturday, which followed an interesting Friday.  For some reason Coach operated on four hours of sleep for a few days in a row during the past week.  The reason was actually very good, in that I coincidentally had two different groups of friends visiting town the EXACT SAME WEEK that I moved back.  Anyway, my no-limit hand occurred early Saturday evening, before I met friends to play at Excalibur, before I went to their room at the MGM Signature Towers and dined and took a five-hour nap, BEFORE I went to the M to pick up my wine.  The floor person was nice enough to sit in the game with myself and a couple so that we could start accumulating our two hours at 7:30 on Sunday morning - like I said, very nice room...  Okay, more of that poker stuff tomorrow.

At this point I am realizing that I will most likely post both tomorrow and Thursday since this library is closed on Friday.  It seems that budget cuts are responsible for the library's odd hours (opening at 10:30 Monday-Thursday).  Okay, so for the time being, that will mean rambles on Mondays, poker/Las Vegas on Wednesdays, and sports on Thursdays.  I will also give you a little sports teaser right now since I have just tons to write about.  SOMEBODY found the baseball parlay cards at Aliante Station last night.  Minimum bet of 2 dollars, and minimum of 3 bets in your parlay.  I filled out a 5 dollar parlay card with 4 bets.  Tigers, White Sox, and Dodgers (all had to win by at least 2 runs), and over 10 runs total in the Rangers/Red Sox game.  So it goes Tigers 7-2, Boston 9-2, and Chicago 4-2.  So now I am at the point that if the Dodgers beat the Rockies by at least 2 in Los Angeles, I get back 55 dollars for my five bucks.  I did not hedge this (bet the Rockies to win for 10, 15, etc... dollars) because I had returned home to eat and take a nap an hour before the Rockies and Dodgers started (also in my defense, the White Sox scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th to break a 2-2 tie, at which time the Rockies and Dodgers had already started)...  ANYWAY, after the Dodgers left TEN men on base and got jobbed by the umpires a few times, they ended up losing the game 2-0, and I have my first losing parlay ticket of 2012.  On the topic of parlay tickets, let me say here that the funniest thing about catching up with my sports betting cocktail waitress buddy on Saturday was that once we got on the topic of football parlay tickets, she just LIT UP and wanted to talk about those, and Peyton Manning, and Tebow, and the Cowboys (her team), etc, etc, etc...  This is while I was honestly there just to see how SHE was doing and catch up...  :)  This is the same cocktail waitress from the "I'll Just Take The Money" post that I wrote a little while back - always makes me smile...

While I'm at Aliante Station with a big bank of t.v.'s in front of me, I am able to use my phone to get locations of apartments and rooms for rent, which I am still sifting through (no need to rush into a bad choice thanks to Miss Carmel), so don't worry that my timer is now on 22 minutes...  :)  Actually, re-charging my phone was another reason that I returned home yesterday, because I had been intermittently using my phone to hunt for a home from 2:00-6:00 at Aliante while watching the Olympics and figuring out my 75% of a great parlay yesterday...

I think that is enough for you to digest for today, so I will be back tomorrow with poker, Thursday with sports, and then on Monday with my ramble (the new posting schedule, until further notice).  Thank you for all of the well wishes upon my return to the desert - I will see you again tomorrow!  ;)