Thursday, October 05, 2006

Elmo vists the gardens

Elmo wanted to see the garden at the Belagio... it 's fall, so they display reflected as such.

The gardens were beautiful. I have a few more pics, but here's the ones he wanted you to see.


Wow, those are big melons

I want these snakes off my mutha fucking fountain!

Ah Gay Paris!


Somewhere over the rainbow!

Wait, what company made that movie? :)

There was this cool thing that was projected on the ground in the MGM and when you walked onto the floor space the video would react. In this shot it's water movement, it's pretty cool.

And here is where we are staying this week...


Tomorrow... the Sahara and the Nascar fun... maybe the ford racing... and if I can manage it the dancing water... although the coke and mentos thing is just as good...

Side note...

On a side note... my wife's grandmother passed away today... we techincally yesterday at this point... but still....

I feel like sleeping with a flashlight tonight...

(if you knew her, you would know why... nothing horrible mind you... it's just that I have a large collection of them thanks to her)

However... I can never find one when I want it... strange how that is...

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Elmo wants to hit the hilton

So I'm sitting here last night and Elmo says he wants to go to the Hilton...
So I hide him in my pocket so that I don't have to get two tickets for the monorail and we go to the Hilton.
We decide to hit Quark's Bar and try the Jambalia... good stuff... but first....I thought it a bit much for him... but he took it pretty well... I had to match him of course... and damn was that "mind meld" like a damned train hitting you in the head. I lost $20 at the slots... we did well at first... but Elmo wanted to play the Starwars slots too much and we lost... Damned light side slot... I was doing better when we played the dark side... luke had on these stupid goggles on his head... and why the hell is a starwars slot machine in the same place as the Star Trek Experience? I mean... isn't that like a hole in the space time continum?

After I got a shirt that said "Old School Wireless" and had the Original Star Trek communicator and some Romulan Ale that Elmo insisted I get...

We went back to the hotel room to get pissed, so back to the monorail.

Did you know that the monorail was built without a single cent of tax payer's money? Hmmm... I wonder how they paid for it...


Here are some of the hotels around where we are staying... tomorrow I plan on showing elmo more of the town...


We finally made it back to the room and proceeded to get pissed!
Well, I went to bed, that mind meld hurt... Elmo on the other hand...





He made a night of it...

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

How I spent my companies money

Day 1
Got here registered for the conference and checked out my hotel room.
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Forgot to mention the fact that the cab driver gave me a card for escort service... I didn't have to make it to the strip for that...
Took elmo out and showed him the room and the view

This room is about the size of my apt. approx 500sq feet.
Went down stairs and promptly lost $20
At at this shitty pizza place in O'Shea
Checked out the layout of the hotel and went back to the room to play WOW

Day 2
Woke up and went to class... damn it's full.
Breakfast was muffins hmmm poppies and an apple
Lunch was Burger King at O'Shea's and promptly lost $10
Back to class, learned we should probably reward people for filling out NAC form...
Snack was chocolate chip cookies
Sounds like I need to watch my systems a little more... for the most part I know what is "normal"
After class walked over to Bally's and wasn't impressed
Lost $10
Walked over to Aladin to look for food... ooooh a La Salsa... bad... it was a sit down resturant
Walked back over to O'shea's and ate at Subway (Quality Vegas food here so far ;) )
Lost another $10
Checked e-mail... Chicken Little (CL) is asking about making a tool that I already created... WTF? I think he's doing it to impress our new "boss" somehow.
Back to the hotel room to play WOW

Day 3 - so far
Class, learned that I may need to make sure the robots.txt is up to date. Need to scan the website and make sure that things are not being listed publicly.
Breakfast was fruit danish... two apple and a cherry, hey they were small
Lunch, Vendor expo had a buffet lunch... so make your own sandwhich, good stuff.
Checked e-mail... bad thing... CL is a dick he's asking about netflow tools, which we already use...
Back to class... never checking e-mail at lunch again... just pissing me off.
I swear the OSI model has to be taught in all of these classes... it's must be federal law or something...
Dude next to me is just surfing the web on his cell network... damn that's a ton of hours...
DM over at reslife doesn't know his head from a hole in the ground... explained things to him several times, serveral ways... and yet he still doesn't get it.
Break ... this time chocolate cake thingy... I went to my room and took a nap... they are going over scanning tools, which I use almost every day...
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Went to quarks bar... got blitzed on one drink... granted it was an $8.00 drink... but still... feeling it right now still... had some good jambalia... wish I could have taken that home... hope I'm not allegric to the shrimp in it... although my stomach hurts...
Got a cool shirt and of course a shot glass... along with some romulan ale... home I can take some of that home... lost $20 at the slots... but it took me over an hour to do so...

On to some WOW before I loose more money
more pictures tomorrow