right on bro!

Went on a quick trip to Vegas over the past day with some friends. Left Thursday night, and came back last night. It was really fun, despite that I’m still not over this retarded-ass cough, and the dry desert air and lots of alcohol & cigarettes just made it worse.

I did, however, get absolutely slaughtered at the tables this time. These guys I went with are pretty gambling-oriented, and we played a lot of blackjack. Usually I walk away with paying for part of the trip, or maybe a few bucks down at the most. But I couldn’t catch a break at all this time. I think I had maybe four blackjacks total in about eight hours of play. Ouch.

Stayed at the Sahara for the first time. It’s not bad for the rate that we paid for it. We were in the recently renovated (in 2002 I think) towers. It was pretty much a standard hotel room, better than, say, the Tropicana or Excalibur, but not as nice as Caesar’s Palace or the Palms. The room had a really great view of east Vegas. I took a couple of 6 A.M. photos from my disposable camera of the sun below the mountains, so when I get them developed I’ll probably put one up.

Now that I’m back in L.A….I’m going to take an extended break from smoking cigarettes for awhile. It’s pretty hard not to believe that smoking had nothing to do with me getting sick over the past two months, and if anything, the amount of cigarettes I’ve smoked per day has gone up quite a bit lately. I’ve pretty much been feeling like crap for the past two months so it’s probably time to put a leash on some of the self-destructive behaviors. I doubt I’ll ever quit completely but it would be good to at least not smoke on a daily basis.

There may be a lot of things I hate about this world, but I’m not quite ready to leave it yet.