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.
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!
Guess which is the pineapple!
Saturday was much better! I woke up at 9AM and called the mechanic. The car was going to be fixed that day, and it cost less than I expected to fix so I was in a better mood already. We went to Ceasar’s for breakfast. We missed the Breakfast Buffet by just a few minutes, so we went to the small Cafe next door.
I got the breakfast Buffet, and being I could take “anything from the buffet” I was nearly dared to take the Pineapple from the buffet, so…. I did. I brought back a plate of eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, a danish, and one full pineapple.
We got to A/C around 9 at night. Unfortunately I had lefy my phone’s home charger at home and left the car charger in my car so my phone was about to die. We tried to foward my number to another number and screwed something up. Now my phone was stuck pointing to an invalid number, and we didn’t know how to turn off the fowarding. That, plus the fact that it was dying, I just gave up and put the phone in my bag. We’re lucky that everyone was able to find me! Some people almost didn’t!
We all finally did meet up and headed to the Hard Rock Cafe… After offending a neighboring table (with kids) and enjoying a good meal, we headed to the casino to play some games then headed to bed!
Vince’s Duct-Tape Coffee Holder
Stuck in Sunoco at the Airport Circle in New Jersey, just 15 minutes from Atlantic City, Vince demonstrated his ability to adapt in any situation and the absolute versatility of duct tape!
The coffee cup was hot to the touch so using the duct tape and napkins as insullation materials, Vince wrapped the cup to keep it’s contents hot and his hands cool. He even made sure to cover the top and bottom of the cup to reduce head dissipation!
Then using the last of the duct tape and the roll on which it came, he proceeded to create a Ketchup dispenser. lol….It was about time that the tow-truck got there!!!
