Just because I travel for work doesn't mean I can't travel for fun!  Sometimes it's nice to stay home and chill out when I can, but Drew & I got an invitation to stay at the NY/NY for free plus some free goodies thrown in for any weekend in January.  Since this past weekend was the only weekend where we weren't going to have company and we were both heading to nearby directions, we headed to Vegas.

Well, right off the bat, everyone knows that nothing in life is free.  I should have taken the free weekend as a sign that we will lose, lose, lose.  I also should have known that since the Consumer Electronics Show was still occuring (which we attended last year and got stranded in Vegas for an extra day due to a four hour security line) AND that it snowed in Vegas on Friday, we should have stayed home.

However, we decided to book free tickets on United using USAirways frequent flier miles seeing as we don't have much faith in their future survival anymore (I personally have burned over 400K miles in the last few months).  We headed to Vegas.  The first sign of "stop throwing money away" should have been that the one casino where I NEVER lose at the slots, the Westin Causarina (just off the strip near Bellagio/Ballys) - is I lost about $20.

$20 you all say - whoopee!  Well, combine that $20 with a few other misadventures at Pai Gow Poker and Blackjack at the NY/NY and MGM Grand ... oh and then the Bellagio, and you add up the House always wins ... nothing in life is free ... and it goes on and on.

Anyway, we still had a good time - despite the pouring rain, the losses, and the surrounding geeks.  And, it was the first time we had left in the negative in almost a year (at least so Drew tells me), so I guess we're almost even - but, I hate to lose.  I don't know why it bothers me so much but it does.   Insert big sigh here.

Now I'm in Los Angeles.  Home to Hollywood and sunny beaches.  Oh wait, make that home to Hollywood & rain.  It's really not what I imagined, but my company has a SWANK SWEET office.  It is decked.  I'm a little jealous.  Oh well.  I live in the Bay Area - overall, a better package in my opinion.

Anyway, it would be great if these various college career centers would take employers trying to hire their students for full-time jobs and internships a little more seriously.  The number of schools that refuse to still use email (!!!) or fail to return phone calls to set up college visits, is shocking - and these are technical schools!!  I'm scared to find out what happens at non-tech places!! 

One other thing ... is there anybody cooler than Sidney Bristow on Alias? Oh my gosh.  I wish I could be her.  Jennifer Garner rocks.  If you do not watch this show, you are lame.