My Boyfriend's Back

Did everyone see??? He's back!!! I'm so excited. Maybe I'll just have to buy a new jersey!! I'll have to start going to the bars to watch hockey now.
I may have lost Bubba (Poor Bubba Franks was cut from the Packers, if you didn't see,) but now I've got Peter back. It's a tough trade-off.

An Everyday Occasion

I'm sure that everyone saw the news about the Monte Carlo fire a month ago or so. On that day, I happened to pull into the parking lot I always park in, at UNLV at right about eleven a.m. As I was pulling in, P&AF happened to call me. I also happened to look up towards the strip and see tons of black smoke pouring from the direction of New York New York (I could see New York New York, but the Monte Carlo building was hidden from my view by the MGM residences.)

M: "Wow, there's tons of black smoke coming from the strip."

P: "Yeah, I guess the Monte Carlo's on fire."

I am totally serious when I say that his tone was about like what you would expect of someone telling you that they went to work on a Monday.

M: "What? The Monte Carlo is on fire????!!!"

P: "Yeah, the roof or something. We might get some patients in here because of it. So how is your day going?"

Apparently it wasn't much of an event to him. I on the other hand had to hang up to make phone calls to people who actually would find the information as crazy as I did. I had to get a closer look and walk until I could see around the Residences. To him it was sort of like, same-old, same-old, a huge casino is on fire, there are sirens and helicopters everywhere, whatever...

Another Casino Fire?

We were recently at the slot machines at the Orleans. It was pretty late, and as we were sitting at the machines, I noticed a group of people creating a bit of a commotion nearby. It wasn't the yelling and whooping sort of commotion that usually signals someone winning a good jackpot; it was more like a slightly concerned, staring at a trash can and talking worriedly commotion. I looked at the trash can in question and saw that there was smoke coming from it. One of the guys at the slot machines near the trash can got up and started pouring all the leftover drinks he could find in the trash can. Someone else went to find help. That person returned with a custodial person. The custodian proceeded to throw other trash on top of the burning trash. He also collected more drinks to throw on the fire. A few minutes later, a security guard walked up. He had a new bottle of gatorade, so he poured that entire bottle into the trash can also. It seemed like a slightly haphazard manner to use to put out the trash fire.