Talk Is Cheap

As I type this, it’s Day 70 of the “Disaster in the Gulf”.  This thing has been botched by BP, congress and our President.  It’s something that never should have happened, but for so many reasons other than the obvious.  We sit and wait for the oil to make landfall on our beaches.  It’s not something we are looking forward to, but something that is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’.

It will only take a tropical storm or a hurricane to splatter oil all over everything within 2 miles of the beach (my apartment sits just under a 1/2 mile from the beach and I work on the beach).  Tropical storm Alex will most likely push oil onto our beaches, but won’t come close enough to send it airborne.  There is talk that 3 casinos that are on the water (Beau Rivage, Hard Rock and the Isle) may be shut down once the oil gets here, for safety reasons.  Is this good news for those of us that work at a different casino or will this spell doom for all the casinos?

When I left Kansas City in May 2008, I knew I would be facing hurricanes.  I knew I would never need to shovel my driveway or scrape 1/2 inch of ice off my windshield ever again.  But I didn’t know that I would be driving on roads covered with oil.  I didn’t know that I would be smelling oil every waking minute of the day.  I didn’t know that such a beautiful place still struggling to rebuild after Katrina would have oil wash up on it’s beaches.  I don’t regret leaving Kansas City and I don’t regret moving here.  But I fear that I may have to move if Biloxi is hit again with one more disaster.

Here is a little (Ok, pretty long) entry from my blog that I’ve been working on. I think I’ve got most of them but would still like your input…

In the few years that I’ve been in the casino business, I’ve met such a diverse group of personalities that are entertaining, annoying, aggravating and/or just weird. I’m going to attempt to describe to you what we (the clowns in the yellow shirts) have to deal with on a daily basis. First there’s the….

“I Know More Than the Dealer” Players
-This type of player is just annoying. They throw you $15, say give me a $6 six and eight, three change! For starters, if we are so ignorant to not be capable of figuring out the $3 change, why would you be on our table? If we are that incompetant, why would you trust us with your money that is bound to lose anyways? Oh, wait! We aren’t incompetant! You just want to look like you know more than the dealer! I like it when they press it up so much that their math skills suddenly go out the window and mum is now the word. Not so smart now, are you?

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A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary. So he decides to buy her a cell phone.
She is all excited, she loves her phone. He shows her and explains to her all the features on the phone.
The next day the blonde goes shopping. Her phone rings, it’s her husband.
“Hi hun,” he says, “how do you like your new phone?”
She replies, “I just love it! It’s so small and your voice is clear as a bell but there’s one thing I don’t understand though.”
“What’s that, baby?” asks the husband.
“How did you know I was at Wal-Mart?”

If you are here around this time.. things might look a little crazy.. I’m changing a few things around.

Wound up with 41 wins in a row in Empire at War ladder skirmish.  It was kinda bogus though because I lost to the number three dude in my 29th game, but the win/loss didn’t register with the ladder.  Two losses today (to Redi_Soljah again) and somebody near me on ladder dropped me way back down under 1500. =(  I used to be stuck in 11th or 12th spot, now I’m stuck in 21st to 24th spot. 

That’s right.. I sent and email and had it post to the website!
Pretty darn snazzy if I do say so myself.

Scott