Was it something I said?

We got back from Vegas late Friday night. It was a long flight but not a bad one and I do like those Airbus planes for long flights much better than the 737s that Southwest flies. We were pretty tired, not the least because we walked everywhere on Thursday. We went from Ballys down to the MGM, walked over to NYNY then hopped the monorail up to the Las Vegas Hilton. Neither of us had ever been there and I wanted to check out their Sportsbook as I hear its the best one around. And it is one impressive sportsbook for sure.

After spending some time and some cash there we trooped over to Treasure Island for dinner. I had picked up tix for the Bill Engvall concert that night. We ate a pretty good meal in their coffee shop, goofed around on some games for awhile and then went to the concert. I actually made a couple of hands playing Video Poker at both TI and LVH though nothing too huge. Still it was a nice change considering how the rest of the week hand gone.

Bill Engvall was a riot. He is a little bit older than I am but we're pretty close in age. He talked a lot about getting older, losing patience with things, etc and the whole time while I'm laughing my ass off, my wife is pointing at me and saying "that's YOU!" And she was right. One of the things that was so funny is I can imagine myself doing and saying some of the same things he talked about.

It was a nice night so we walked back from TI to Ballys. A very pleasant night out though I almost put down one of those porn slappers near the Mirage after he entered my personal space. One warning was apparently enough. By then I was tired and a little cranky from a very full day. We got back to Ballys and gambled a bit more but had no luck to speak of. We didn't get a lot of sleep that night as we had to get started early to get ready to fly out. We used our players club points to pay for breakfast and most of the souvenirs we picked up including the snow globe that almost got me arrested at the airport. Whoda thunk a simple snow globe would be found on the banned substances list. Next time I'll bring some loose bullets or something to really make it worth getting arrested.

Saturday the Poker Queen wanted to play in the Saturday night tourney at Derby Lane. My bad luck continued there and I ran a J10 into KJ on a JJ5 flop for the rest of my chips. I played some no limit holdem but again I kept running into bad stuff. It seems like I can't shake the Vegas luck from my head yet. PQ lasted a good bit longer than I did but eventually succumbed when they got down under 2 tables left. We left right after that as we were both tired and I had a gun show to attend on Sunday Morning.

The gun show was good. Bigger than I expected and very busy. There were a couple of good deals I saw - almost picked up a Ruger 9mm or a Smith & Wesson .40 cal while I was there but wanted to look around a bit more. There's another gun show next month so I may buy then instead. Guy I was with picked up a nice little .380 automatic to use as a concealed weapon as he is taking the concealed weapons class next month. I may take that class, I haven't decided yet. Now I know a lot of people, including the PQ, are against guns in the house. I don't necessarily disagree. If you have children and cannot safely store your weapons so that they cannot access them while you are not home, you shouldn't have a gun. You are endangering your family and friends a lot more than you are protecting them from someone else. Just telling kids not to touch a gun is exactly what you shouldn't do. However if you do handle the weapons safely and teach your kids how to handle weapons and the rules for doing so, there is no reason why you can't have weapons in the home. I never felt confident enough to keep a gun in the home when the kids were young and I knew how much the PQ hated them. So I never got one.

Now with the kids gone, I feel it would be safer to get a gun. I know many people are anti gun and that's ok as we all have a right to our opinion. But I feel it is worse to need a weapon and not have one than to have a weapon and not need one. And when you need a gun, you really need a gun. So I am sure at some point in the not to distant future I will be buying a pistol and maybe even taking a concealed permit class. I don't want to be one of those guys who buys a gun and sticks it in a closet and forgets about it. I want to become practiced with it and feel comfortable enough so that I can not embarass myself with it and if I have to use it, to hit what I aim at.

Since Sunday I've played a little online poker, still mostly getting hosed there. Just missed the money in one tourney when my KK lost to 88 right before the bubble. What killed me was I raised preflop and got called by the 8s. Then I pushed all in after the flop of 10-4-2 rainbow and he called me for most of his chips. 8 on the turn sunk me. Vegas is still following me. Otherwise its a lot of work and I'm still kinda tired. Then again I could be sick like the PQ is now. She had a pretty bad cold before Vegas but she was fine there. Then she comes back and gets another cold. Anyway it's bed time for bonzo. Stay lucky you nuts.