Starting work today

Ready to start work, finally.  I suppose it would be easy to turn these few days into a real vacation and spend a bunch of money on "entertainment" - after all I am in Vegas - but I'm really here to work, not play.  My fun has been to play some poker while waiting for work to start.  I've played in two small tournaments and several cash games at the lower levels and broken just about even so far.  Disappointing, I know.  I was hoping to win about $500 prior to yesterday and then play in the casino employees' tournament that kicks off the World Series, but I just didn't play well enough to do that.  Most of the time I spent hours struggling to grind my way back to even after blowing my initial buy-in.

I found an Apple store on line.  Actually there are several here in Las Vegas.  The email app on my iPhone had been acting up.  It wouldn't allow me to delete several "This message has no content" spam emails, so I decided I needed one of those Apple Geniuses to help.  Barry went with and used his Phone's GPS to direct us to the nearest Apple store.  It only missed by a few miles giving us directions to Fashion Mall on the strip rather than to the Town Center a mile or so away.  Fashion Mall is fun anyways.

While waiting for my Genius (there was an hour long wait) the store manager came up to say hello.  It took him about a minute to re-cycle re-start my email app and that solved the problem.  Cancel the Genius.

In the mall there was a kiosk selling iPhone screen protectors.  This is a 99 cent item they sell for 9 bucks.  Sounds like a ripoff, huh?  Not until you watch them install one.  She did such a nice job.  She cleaned the screen first and used a little tape to remove a few specks of dust then perfectly aligned the cover and made it look like it came from the factory.  Took about 10 minutes but was well worth the money for such a perfect installation.  Now I have a non-glare screen and my phone's glass is protected.  Highly recommended.

Back home to make some Country Style Pork with Asparagus and a salad.  All part of a good low carb diet.

Full from dinner we just sat around and watched movies - one pretty bad one called "The Other Guys" with a great cast (Will Farrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Heche, Eva Mendez) but not a great script.  After that Al, Sara and I watched "The Hangover".  Now, I suppose, I need to visit the theater and see the sequel which just came out this week.  Seems they made the same movie again, but this time set it in Bangkok.  I'm betting the same jokes are funny again in a different setting.