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I am up at 7:00 and out by 7:45.  Today I am going to revisit the Strip.  I am smart enough to have thought ahead to getting Dunkin Donuts last night to keep in my refrigerator so I could have a large iced coffee while playing at Bellagio this morning.

It is fucking HOT outside.  Like the hot where the sun burns your eyes and they really hurt.  I had to wait 17 minutes for my Uber.  This is abnormally long for this trip, albeit at this time last year, I would have been psyched just to be able to get one at all.

I watched as my driver passed by me on his way to drop off the person before me at Four Queens.  Please pick me up on the way, I need air conditioning?

My plans for Bellagio are to play the Dancing Drums machine I won on last trip, play some Cleopatra Keno and some Buffalo.  I have enough comps for the buffet.  Even though I am not a fan of it, I am less of a fan of leaving comps on the table.

I play Dancing Drums.  Woo hoo, this is going to plan!
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Oh wow what a morning here at Fremont.  I slept horribly.  I had so many dreams about work, oof.  The last dream was one of my former employees was trying to kill me.  As his knife is coming down towards my chest, I jump up awake, heart pounding.  Sweating.  Then I realized I was almost 2 hours late to work!  Holy shit, I slept in big time and simply missed an important meeting with my former manager, while dreaming about being stabbed by a former employee.   Way to be an adult.  I also missed 2 meetings with my employees.  Damn all of them for thinking something was wrong and I was in the hospital, rather than thinking I had won a million dollars and quit my job.

Ran down to get Dunkin Donuts.  God bless the mobile app.  Now I am going to be starving all day because I have back to back meetings. I still need to shower before going out after work.  At least it is my Friday?

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I woke up at Four Queens at 4:30 AM.  Shower and out to Dunkin Donuts.  Lost some money around Fremont.  Would be losing money to earn my keep at Four Queens, but more than half the casino is still blocked off while they replace their carpeting.

Normally the incidental hold on comped rooms at Four Queens is $20.  They have a hold on my credit card for $201.70, which makes me think I am going to have issues at checkout because it looks like they are charging me for the room.

I went to get breakfast at McDonalds because it is the easiest thing to grab before work.  Well today is was the opposite.  All the credit card readers are down so you have to pay in cash.  But the cash part is down too.  The poor cashier has to add up totals manually and figure out change manually.  She has to keep going in the back to get change.  I don’t know why they didn’t pull the drink guy to help, he was just standing around as the orders were going through insanely slow due to the paying issue. But I don’t manage McDonalds so I am sure there are reasonings I am unaware of.

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Woke up at Cosmopolitan, late for work, probably due to being a gamblor of the degenerate family last night.

Down and lost $300 on Buffalo Max, before hitting Starbucks.  I stocked up on drinks here.  Trenta iced coffee, please!  Also Trenta Pineapple Refresher WITH WATER.  And the largest iced water you can give me.  YAY.

Then back to my room where I have a three hour meeting.  THREE HOURS. Would have loved taking it on the balcony but WiFi and mobile hot spots are too weak out here.   The mobile hot spot maybe because I am so high up?

At some point at the end of this meeting, we get an email from the company owner announcing layoffs are coming by the end of September.   So now I am not free due to this three hour meeting ending.  I am now being pinged by so many of my employees asking if they are being laid off.  I don’t know, I got the news the same way you did.  Yeargh.

Even though I am booked at Cosmopolitan tonight, I have to move tonight.   I packed my shit and stopped by Dancing Drums and MY Ultimate X video poker machine on my way out.

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I wake up to see my room at Luxor is ready.  I am not staying at Luxor.  I booked it for the dining credit and free play.   I have been trying to burn MLife forever.  But the MyKonami free plays + degenerate keep the offers coming.

I walk over to Aria for breakfast, charging it my room at Luxor  I get an iced coffee to go.  First stop, loading MyKonami free play.  I play at a machine that will not give me money. Not at all.  A woman sits next to me and she plays Wolf Run and she keeps hitting bonus after bonus after bonus.  I get mad and leave.

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I slept in today, in my Cosmopolitan Marshmallow bed.  I love these beds so much.   No sunrise photo because I slept through it.

First stop is Starbucks.   The line here is so long.  It does move fast, but I hate anyway.

I went to MY Ultimate X video poker machine and she ate $300 without giving me anything, not even one four of a kind.  She must still be recovering from that guy beating her up last night.

I have accumulated some free play so I put it in Dancing Drums and played max bet.

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I am absolutely fucking exhausted.  It doesn’t help that I am at Cosmopolitan burrowed into a marshmallow bed when my alarm goes off at the ridiculous hour of 5:00 AM. But I am able to get out of bed because gamblor + Starbucks that opens at 5:30.

Lost $200 in Buffalo Max before work.  This would be not really okay normally but I played the last $100 at $7.50 which is less fun degenerate and more dangerous degenerate.

I am starving again mid morning so I go down to District Donuts.  The line is insane.  There are so many groups of people ahead of me.  I had my phone with me which was good because I had to reschedule a work meeting while waiting in this line.

Once work was over, it is time to play!  I love this fucking machine.

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I am up naturally at at California at 4:30 AM.  Decide to gamble before work, always a great idea.

Over to Main Street Station to cash out my TITO from last night and of course, to play some more 50 cent Double Double Bonus video poker.  I lost $100 but I played a bit.  I love the casino on these early weekday mornings.  It is quiet.  There’s few people. I wonder about the people I do see.  Is that woman getting ordering beers from the cocktail waitress still up from last night?  Is that guy up because he lives on the East Coast and cannot sleep past 9:00?  What about that other guy?  Was that his suitcase in my room the other night?

I stopped to get Lapperts on my way back to my room.   The donuts are just being delievered now.  I need a donut.  The nice woman behind the counter was willing to dig through the boxes for me.  I told her to just grab whatever is in the top box.  Maple.  Meh.

Went to get a drink from the vending machine. I went in my pajams, no bra and wearing slippers.  Aaaaaaand I realized too late that I did not have my room key. Normally when I go to the vending machine, I bring a change purse full of all the change I have acquired on my trip, rather than my wallet.  Thankfully today for no reason at all, I had my wallet.  Which I needed to show my ID to get a new key.  I had to walk through the casino in my pajamas, no bra, wearing slippers.  No one batted an eye at me.

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I woke up at 6:03 AM, which makes me 3 minutes late to work.  Thankfully I have coffee in my refrigerator from last night.  No time for anything today as I have back to back to back to back to back meetings.  Breakfast was a banana I took from the Wynn spa 3 days ago.  This is one of the top things that grinds my gears while working in Vegas.  Having to forage for food.  I want to sleep in leisurely and go out and order whatever I want for breakfast in a restuarant.  Not scouring my bags to see if there are any edible items in there because I am starving.

Sunrise:

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Woke up naturally at California right before the alarm went off.  Las Vegas sunrise:

Had enough time to go and get real sit down breakfast but then didn’t.   I went to Lapperts.  I dropped my donut and ate it anyway.

Work.  I took a well needed gamble during a break.  I sat down and realized I left both my cigarettes, and my phone in the room so this is going to be very quick.

I am not allowed to play dollar video poker anymore at California but did so anyway.

I got my first $100 up to $140 and then lost $80 and just like that, back to work.  I was gone for less than ten minutes total.

Work all day, hate.  I just want to be on vacation.  I don’t know if I can even whine anymore about how much I have grown to hate working in Vegas.  I want to be free.

I went to get lunch at Circa.  I wasn’t sure if I was going to get Saginaws or Victory Burger. Both sound good right now.  I sit down to play while I decide and got a win on a game who’s name I do not know.

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