The Early Years

Ah, Poker night. Well - at least I assume it was. Our regular poker crowd was honestly all but absent.  Still, given the good weather holding, I can't hold it too much against them.  It was another quiet evening, honestly, but that's good, as it afforded me lots of time to play around with and&he...

To account for the past few days, let me briefly just quote Mel Brooks: "Politics, Politics, Politics, Politics, POLitics!"   That covers it, really.   Saturday night was slow but steady, our overall population in the casino hindered by all the beautiful weather we'd had going outside. ...

Tuesday arrived as Tuesday often does - busily, and with a vague sense of weariness to it, largely tied to the new policy issues mentioned the other day. It was a reasonably steady pace though, and a lot of our usual but recently missing poker crowd was in attendance for the weekly tournament. Fu...

I went in to work in fair spirits, having had a modestly productive day in the real world - but it was soon turned into a night filled with preoccupation as my supervisor clued me in to the new round of stupid heading 'round the block, so to speak. I'll spare you the morbid details -…

Pardon the lapse there, folks - Life got - and continues to be "Hella Busy.  I'll keep up as best I can, but there probably will be repeats of this time to time. At any rate - a brief run down of last night.  It was an interesting evening, really.  One of our bartenders had…

Keeping with the trend for the week, our designated supervisor was out for the night due to class stuff, and standing in as a guest supervisor? Slowpoke Rodriguez. -.- Seriously. -sigh- The night started out slowly, but did thankfully pick up somewhat at least.  TV was pretty dead though, as the ...

Not much to say here. With all the politics in the air, it feels a bit like walking into a minefield, but.. do what you have to do. Had a special guest supervisor this evening, as the expected had a class in the morning or something and wasn't there.  I did get one bit of…

Ah, Derby Day!  I haven't worked one of these in the lounge in a while, so it was fun to see that I was getting the 4pm shift.  The Kentucky Derby (as are the Preakness & Belmont Stakes) are unique for us in that they're the only three gambling events that casino staff are allowed to particip...

Friday at the service bar! Weird Friday at the service bar, more like it. Apparently over Wed & Thurs, the heavy politicking in the office had a plethora of cluter-bomb like donations, and thus - multiple faces are now either gone outright, or temporarily pending investigation.  I won't bore ...

Just catching up here a bit so pardon the previty, folks. Tuesday was pretty blah, really. Business was slow, and office politics was at a high water mark, so  I largely just kept up with the new courtesy of my supervisor, waited on the few guests that I had, and enjoyed the season finale of Top&...