24 August 2009 «Necessary Mutilation

More Moolah, Meals, and Margaritas for Me

Weight: 242 lbs.

At the risk of having this sound like a gambling rather than a WLS blog, I must make reference to another “double points day” at the casino. Although I woke up rather dreading the ordeal of spending time traveling to and from two casinos to cash in on freebies and vouchers, how really can one resist “free” money?

So, first we drove across the border to redeem vouchers for $28 (me) and $15 (Tom) plus a whole toilet-wipies box full of assorted Canadian change that has been hanging around unused forever. All told, this amounted to $92 American — plus the heartache of walking past other people’s winning machines to the exit, without passing “Go.”

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