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Nice surprise

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Work does something very cool that no other jobs I’ve worked at have
done. When I work on a holiday, I get tripple my hourly sallary. If the
holiday falls on my day off, I get an Alternate day off (paid) so
either way, whether I work a holiday or not, I get a benefit!

I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon when I checked my calendar
and found that I have off tomorrow. This is also good because I wanted
to attend a LIBN event being held at 8AM thurday morning and this will
give me a chance to get to sleep early so I’m not wiped all day Thu.

JaypoCON 2005 – Part 4 – In closing

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JaypoCON 2005 was eventfull and loads of fun. I had a great time, and I think all my friends did too. The gears are in motion for JaypoCON 2006 but I think I’m going to plan something more local. The only downside of the AC trip was that a lot of people couldn’t make it because of the distance and conflicting schedules.

If you’re interested in reading about JaypoCON 2005: This Link brings you to all the posts in the right order.

Until next year…..

JaypoCON 2005 – VINCE STORY UPDATE 4

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The Adventures of Action Vance! Part 2

Walking through the casino, Action Vance’s mind explodes into action again. He makes the arrangements with the 2 girls in our group. He makes his way ahead about 300 feet and leans up against a column directly across from the Table games (Blackjack, Craps, etc..) and pretends to be planning his next big movie on his cellphone. All of a sudden, the girls charge at him screaming like loony fans and ask for his autograph. Janna even had Laura take her pic with Vince on her cellphone.

The girls ran back to me and Josh as we continued on towards the Buffet. We had to shrug off the dealers and pit bosses who were really curious who the “star” was. They’ll always wonder who that star was who was in their casino.

JaypoCON 2005 – VINCE STORY UPDATE 3

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The Adventures of Action Vance!

We’re in tThe lobby of Bally’s “Wild Wild West”, a casino with a cool landscape scene blocked off to the public. Action Vance wanted an action shot with the cacti on this set. He sent the group to distract the guard in the casino while he jumped up on the ledge and I took a picture in the scene with a cameraphone.

 

JaypoCON 2005 – Part 4 – Hail Ceasar’s

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We spent the day in Caesar’s gambling. I played at the tables for the
first time and didn’t do too bad. The cheapest blackjack tables started
at $15/hand, so I sat down with Shawn and we each dropped $60. I didn’t
do too bad. I started out pretty good and almost trippled my money. Of
course, AC wouldn’t be in business if everybody won, so I kepy going
until I lost most of my winnings. I kept about $30 or so above my
initial $60 so I didn’t make out too bad.  Later on, I was just
playin’ around with the nickel slots. Stuck $5 into Slingo and walked
out with $27 only a few minutes later.

It’s great playing cheap slots in the Casinos… You can sit there and
play all you want and the drinks are free. We need somewhere like that
here in NY. Somewhere you can sit down at a quarter-video-poker machine
and drink all you can. Hell, Friday night I put $10 into a Video Poker
machine and had 3 drinks while losing only $2.00 in the machine.
Tipping per drink, It was cheaper to have all 3 drinks and play poker
than it is to buy one drink here in NY!