Las Vegas, Here I Come

By On April 20, 2007 · 4 Comments · In Everything Else

Tomorrow I am going to Las Vegas to work a conference (sadly not for pleasure). Since I will be working the event I have long 12-hour days ahead of me. But I am not too upset about it because the overtime pay is great! I will be coming back 6 am Saturday so I can still set up Doughnuts and Art.

I am bringing my laptop this time, so I hope I can find some cheap or free wireless. I would like to still update this a few times next week. I hear that I might have trouble because nothing is free in Vegas. I know they say drinks are free, but how much money are you losing in the slot machine to get it? Wish me luck!

 
  • emily

    Don’t forget to take pictures so that I know what I’m getting into when I go this summer!
    Oh and I will try and not burn the house down while you’re gone. hahaha

  • Andrew

    I’m listening to your newest podcast and the VT teacher who sacrificed himself came up, and I thought I’d put this up.
    “It is only in emergency situations that one should volunteer to help strangers, if it is in one’s power. For instance, a man who values human life and is caught in a shipwreck, should help to save his fellow passengers (though not at the expense of his own life).” —The Ethics of Emergencies, Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn RandAnd [background:talking about saving a drowning person]“If the person to be saved is not a stranger, then the risk one should be willing to take is greater in proportion to the greatness of that person’s value to oneself. If it is the man or woman one loves, then one can be willing to give one’s own life to save him or her – for the selfish reason that life without the loved person could be unbearable.” I think that since he was a teacher, he valued his students greatly and would not be able to bear the loss, so it was a selfish thing to do to protect his students.

  • Dug

    I smell smoke

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