I woke at at Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas at 6:00 AM, fiending gambling. Great.

Went to Starbucks and then attempted to play at The Chandelier Bar. I never play here. But there was a large group on drunky drunkertons so I opted to go elsewhere.  Take THAT drunky drunkertons.

Did my usual rounds of Ultimate X video poker and Cleopatra Keno. I cannot believe this Ultimate X machine hates me so much. WHY.

Cleo was kinder, but nothing big enough for a photo.

Grabbed a honey biscuit from Hattie B’s and since I still have resort credit left, paid $15 for a bottle of water that is smaller than the one I got for $2.99 at Walgreens the night I arrived.

Out on my balcony to smoke and burn in the sun. I wish I had my straw hat i wear when traveling to insanely burning hot places. Bangladesh,  I’m talking to you.

I never did post about that trip. I probably should.

My buddy Royal Flusher has been keeping up with this blog (hello sir!)  He informed me that if my refrigerator is unplugged, it will fill with mold if the door is kept shut. Quick text to the landlord saved my refrigerator and also saved me more money than I’ve lost already because my refrigerator didn’t come with the apartment,  I had to buy it.

Going to nap before packing and moving to Rio. I have Cosmopolitan booked tonight so I don’t have to check out at 11. Woo.

Woke up from my nap and showered and packed. I will miss being able to smoke in my pajamas.

Didn’t check out, just left. Let’s see if I regret this as I cannot see my bill anywhere.  By my math (and I have the receipts!) I charged $98 to the room with $100 resort credit.

While in an Uber to Rio, we passed a Cartzilla cart.  GUYS!   What the fuck is this and how did I not know it existed?  It is a vehicle that is a shopping cart.  Like a tour bus BUT IT IS A SHOPPING CART LOOK AT IT: https://cartzillaride.com/

Checked into Rio for the first time in well over a decade.  I got an offer match – 4 free nights + $125 freeplay and $150 resort credit.

There was a line to checkin.  They also have kiosks which I am down to use since I am not one of those “must have this specific room/view/floor/wah pay attention to meeeeeeee” types of people.  But they were all showing a print error message.

I get to the front and she confirms I have a nonsmoking room.  Do you have…smoking rooms?  “You have a nonsmoking room.”  Yes, but do you have smoking rooms? “You booked a nonsmoking room.”  Do you, or do you not, have fucking smoking rooms?  “All of our rooms are nonsmoking.”

Then she asked me if I wanted an ugrade to a suite with a Jacuzzi tub.  I asked if it were free and she said no, and added if it were free, she would just give it to me.  Well no, I am not paying for it.

The room appears fine.  The refrigerator has a temperature control, I set it to medium.  Let’s see if it takes.   The room has 2 light switches when you first walk in, for the entrance and bathroom/dressing area, but none in the actual room.  So when you return to the room when it is dark, you have to make sure to not walk into anything before finding the first lamp to manually turn on.

I have mountain view, which I am more than fine with.

I have $125 freeplay with my offer and an additional $50 freeplay from an email offer. They loaded the offer for me and I had to use the kiosk to get the $50 email offer.  And wouldn’t ya know it.  I have offers for free tickets for Penn & Teller, Wow and the comedy club.  My offer came with discounted show tickets.  Kiosk is 100% free.  I did purchase tickets for the comedy show so I am almost not really mad about that (I got them via the vegas.com promo so kind of free) but am super glad I didn’t purchase Wow, which I almost did.  I would have purchased Penn & Teller except the show is dark when I am here.

I decided to play $75 of my $175 free play before heading to Palms. I got a double bonus on Huff and Puff and this was the end result.

Cha-ching!

I cashed out and heading to Palms. Palms loves sending me offers. LOVES it. I’m not sure why. On my first visit, I hit a handpay on Moolah with a Unicow. Okay so they want their money back.

But it’s been 2 years and I did visit and low played last year. So why do I still get several pieces of mail clogging my mailbox every month? Either put all the promos one mailer OR try sending via email for crissakes.

I had $50 freeplay and a gift, which I likely would not want.  And luck was on my side as they were out of gifts and gave me an additional $25 freeplay instead.

I played Ultimate X single line, which Palms also has on dimes.  I hadn’t seen that before.  Score!

I went for dinner at Serrano Vista Cafe to use my comps.  There was either a wait or bar seating.  Normally I would opt to wait but I was way too tired so I tried the bar. I got a sandwich which came with fries that I did not want.  He offered I could have berries instead.  I meant to say yes but accidentally said no and now I am craving berries.

After eating, I went back to Rio, falling asleep walking.  So tired.  Did want to gamble the rest of my free play.  Maybe I should have gone to bed and saved it.  But also cannot smoke in the room so why not use it while smoking?

I couldn’t stay awake. So I decided to buy a $60 bonus on a Buffalo game.  And I won….$14.  You know, for someone who was on punishment and was only allowed to put $20 in a machine at a time, I have no right to be buying a $60 bonus so I deserved that $14 win.

I was in bed at 7:11 with a book, fell asleep also at 7:11 without even opening the book.  Slept through until 4:30 AM like I was dead.  Because I was.  THIS is the book, if you are interested.  I buy books by the pound on eBay and they send me a box full of books in the genre I pick.  This was in one of my recent purchases.

(Required ramble – I am an Amazon associate and if you purchase anything through my links, I get pennies to put in my bra for good luck while gambling.)

Also speaking of Amazon, I recently started using an iced coffee maker at home – specifically THIS ONE.  I wanted to bring it to Vegas with me for ease of having iced coffee in the morning.   It doesn’t really save me money because I have comps that cover my addiction.  But it is supposed to ease my stress of waiting online and being on time for work.  But I am also scared to use it because it is glass and if it freezes in my hotel room refrigerator, it is going to be catastrophic.  But the items I currently have in my refrigerator did not freeze overnight so I shall try this today and see what happens.

Side note: Cosmopolitan sent me a link to check out this morning and it will not load.  So I still cannot see if they correctly applied my resort credit.  I will be checking my credit card statement for the next few days.

I didn’t post this up last night as I fell asleep and finished it this morning.   The wifi at Rio is kind of terrible and I keep freezing on video calls so I am using my hot spot on my phone.  I know other people have worked from their rooms at Rio without incident so I am just unfortunate in more than just gambling (I say as I am coming off a big win day.)

And the itinerary – I did everything on it!
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