Viva Las Vegas?
I put a question mark here because I'm not sure any city like that should be Viva'd (Look I invented a word!). I'm going with my sister and a bunch of her army cohorts. We'll be there for three nights and three days. Should be fun. I'm religiously obliged to not gamble...I think. I've never asked because I just assumed it was forbidden. I'll avoid doing it totally unless it's part of a group activity and saying no would be...well, if it would be to snub the entire group. I also don't know anything about it, and I honestly think (at least at the moment) that I wouldn't like it very much. ::shrug:: who knows though. My experience with it is limited to a few games of ad hoc craps in junior high and one quarter in a slot machine in the LV airport during a two hour layover on my way back home from a ski trip in New York....wow. I didn't realize just how cosmopolitan my life actually was untill I wrote that just now. Which is retarded because I'm realizing it while staring at a brand new 19 inch flatscreen computer monitor that I got from my parents for Christmas.
Though, to my credit, I do live in a crappy apartment, eat primarially noodles (or fast food en rout to or from work), and pretty much have to ask for money to do anything major, like car repairs. So I am legitimately poor, but I'm also taken care of...kinda. I'm expected to work my ass off for as much money as I can make to support myself, and as long as I'm doing that, the parental units tacitly agree to pick up the other expenses I can't handle alone.
Anyway, back to the discussion (writ: monolouge) at hand. The primary entertainment will be just bumming around the town for a few days. We'll probably catch one big show (Cirque de Solei or perhaps Blue Man Group) and try our hands at a few gaming tables just for kicks. In all seriousness, none of us have money to burn at gambling, so the activity is strictly for amusement. That being said, I think I'll be done being amused by losing money for litterally no return after the first couple of games. And I'm not allowed to do it anyway. It's really nice being Orthodox, because all the stupid (stupid, stupid, stuipid) stuff that other people do as social expectations (strip clubs/strippers at bachelor partys for example) is stuff that you've got direct instructions not to do, and ergo not only do you avoid (we hope) getting your soul dirty, you also don't stupidly waste money, time, dignity, etc... on pointless crap. Video games are my one indulgance in that area. I don't buy many of them, but the ones I do buy I use extensively. Hey, don't knock it, I live alone, and I have no friends that keep the same hours I do, it keeps me out of trouble.
Anyhoo, Lemony Snickett's: A Series of Unfortunate Events lived up to my movie expectations and even went beyond. Jim Carey is not a perfect Count Olaf, but nobody else in the world could even hope to do it as well as he does. And the kids cast as the Baudeliere orphans are exactly perfect. Blade: Trinity sucked. No pun intended, it just wasn't good. The first two were good, this one was hammy. Although...the scenes (most of them) where the arch-villan (no less than the origional Dracula) was ABSENT, were mostly very entertaining. The actor couldn't act. Which you woud think would preclude him from acting, but aparently this is not a requisite talent.
Alexey the Sinner.
Though, to my credit, I do live in a crappy apartment, eat primarially noodles (or fast food en rout to or from work), and pretty much have to ask for money to do anything major, like car repairs. So I am legitimately poor, but I'm also taken care of...kinda. I'm expected to work my ass off for as much money as I can make to support myself, and as long as I'm doing that, the parental units tacitly agree to pick up the other expenses I can't handle alone.
Anyway, back to the discussion (writ: monolouge) at hand. The primary entertainment will be just bumming around the town for a few days. We'll probably catch one big show (Cirque de Solei or perhaps Blue Man Group) and try our hands at a few gaming tables just for kicks. In all seriousness, none of us have money to burn at gambling, so the activity is strictly for amusement. That being said, I think I'll be done being amused by losing money for litterally no return after the first couple of games. And I'm not allowed to do it anyway. It's really nice being Orthodox, because all the stupid (stupid, stupid, stuipid) stuff that other people do as social expectations (strip clubs/strippers at bachelor partys for example) is stuff that you've got direct instructions not to do, and ergo not only do you avoid (we hope) getting your soul dirty, you also don't stupidly waste money, time, dignity, etc... on pointless crap. Video games are my one indulgance in that area. I don't buy many of them, but the ones I do buy I use extensively. Hey, don't knock it, I live alone, and I have no friends that keep the same hours I do, it keeps me out of trouble.
Anyhoo, Lemony Snickett's: A Series of Unfortunate Events lived up to my movie expectations and even went beyond. Jim Carey is not a perfect Count Olaf, but nobody else in the world could even hope to do it as well as he does. And the kids cast as the Baudeliere orphans are exactly perfect. Blade: Trinity sucked. No pun intended, it just wasn't good. The first two were good, this one was hammy. Although...the scenes (most of them) where the arch-villan (no less than the origional Dracula) was ABSENT, were mostly very entertaining. The actor couldn't act. Which you woud think would preclude him from acting, but aparently this is not a requisite talent.
Alexey the Sinner.
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