Wednesday, November 13, 2024

shuffle and deal

 According to my west coast brother today is "National Bread Pudding Day."  I do love bread pudding, and the adventure I associate with it.  When I was much younger and fairly new to the real estate game my boss and I went to a national Century 21 convention in Las Vegas.  We stayed at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on the old strip downtown and it's still one of my favorite hotels ever, although I admit I haven't been back for a long time.  In addition to introducing me to bread pudding, which I had never heard of before (it was delicious), my ever thoughtful boss also introduced me to the joys of Black Jack, still my favorite casino game.  She was very good at Black Jack and took time to teach me the basics of the game.  Don't worry, I didn't become addicted and I didn't loose great gobs of money, but I did have a fine time and never lost more in an evening than the cost of a good dinner.  I still follow that rule, or try to.  $5.00 tables are getting harder and harder to find.  I would rather gamble in Las Vegas than anywhere else, which means I haven't gambled much in recent years.  I did think about gambling on our cruise last year but the casino was the only place on the ship that allowed smoking, and breathing that air was a gamble I wasn't prepared to take.  I was interested though to hear that a casino is going to be built in New Haven, only a few miles from where we live.  Maybe my ever patient spouse and I will give it a try sometime, but only at non-smoking $5 tables, and only if they serve bread pudding at the buffet. 

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