God damn!
Tried to post this quit awhile ago but I had to jump through hoops with this new blogger crap.
So anyways, here's a blog that's a few days old:
Blog 030907
The casino was fairly fun I must say. I went down with a plan, stuck to it and made a small profit. The trip down kind of sucked because I was running on about 3 hours of sleep having worked the previous night. They played Kevin Costner’s The Guardian for a movie. It wasn’t great but wasn’t bad. I liked the training parts of the movies and liked the characters. The ending was ‘Hollywood’ and the movie had a feel of ‘been there, done that’ if you’ve seen ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’. Of course, that movie is around 20 years old now so maybe The Guardian seemed fresh to younger movie goers.
I will not deny that I rather enjoy looking at the females dressed up for the casino. My favorite of this trip was a young woman with dark or black hair pulled back sort of into a ponytail but from the top back of her head. She wore what I call a sweater dress. It was a sweater knit material that clung to her body and ended at her mid thigh. It was a pleasing shade of white – not to bright nor harsh on the eyes. The sleeves were either three quarters or she had then pushed up on her forearms, I can’t recall. She wore no belt. The sweater dress gave way to black stockings and black knee high boots. Her boots had a design stamped into the leather or something along with some metal studs I think. The heels were ice picks and very high, I’m thinking four inches. She was a fast walked considering her boots. She had a guy with her but I didn’t bother looking at him. She was literally turning heads. I turned to look and noticed at least one other guy too.
There were more too. Most of the people at the casino dress casually like they are going to the mall but there are enough that dress up to make things fun to watch. I liked an Asian woman in leather pants and a black shirt and cute to boot. There was a couple maybe in their 50’s or 60’s and the lady looked pretty good for her age. The guy was white haired and wearing a brighter shad of a blue or gray suit. She had blond hair cut stylishly short, a brownish dressed that showed her arms and legs and suede looking boots. She looked and her exposed flesh looked good. She had decent legs and her arms seemed decently toned for her age – no jiggling flesh or cellulite. It made me wonder if they were rich or just well dressed middle class. They looked sort of rich or upper middle class but who knows. They were after all, just walking around the whole time I saw them.
I did laugh a bit at one lady. Her outfit looked pretty good – tight gray dressy jeans, a fitted black leather jacket and some what ugly ass pumps with skyscraper heels and those toes that extend so far out from her foot that they looked like ancient Arabian shoes that had uncurled. But her face was a little rough and she had what I called a poodle hair cut. It’s where a woman’s hair is completely full of curls but the bulk of her hair seems to be like a mountain on the crown of her head. It had a very 1980’s feel to it. Her husband/boyfriend was a big guy with black hair. He reminded me of a younger version of Pussy from the Soprano’s. Maybe they were mob?
I only recall one woman in an evening dress. She was a young blond, I think I never really saw her face close up, in a red dress that showed a lot of flesh but mostly arm and back. She had on red pumps that looked like 5 inch heels. While she was good enough to remember, there was something about her aura or something that didn’t really impress me. Maybe it felt like she was over dressed since no one else looked like her.
I noticed that all the beverage serves/waitresses where middle aged women and usually a little rough looking in the face. I think most of them seemed in their 40’s or early 50’s. I was rather surprised by that. It seemed like the younger women employees were all dealers. There were a couple of cute ones too.
I might stick the white sweater dress ensemble on my super heroine Shadowdancer at some point. LOL!
Chow was okay. Dessert was better. I took some Black Forrest Cake, vanilla pudding, Jell-O, and a lemon marang (sic) pastry cup. I was sorry I was full because I missed the apple cobbler that I enjoyed last time and there was a white vanilla cake that looked GOOOOOD!
Supper was pork fried rice, mashed paper that had peppers in them (or something like that), ziti, and home fries.
I had a pretty good night gambling. I won way more hands than I lost. I always get a little ancy when deciding what to play and how to part with my money. I watched some of our group play before sitting down to play some Blackjack alongside my brother-in-law and family friend. I hit Blackjack once or twice which was cool. My system was that I had $60 for table games and anything I won went into my pocket. My $60, win or lose would take me as far as it could. After I lost my $60, I cashed out and was surprised to learn that I won $112! Not bad. All the $5 chips in my pocket were like a huge tumor on my leg. So it was cool to see a $100 bill being slipped back in my direction.
My brother and I wandered around for awhile and I check on my Keno winnings and played more Keno. The bus trip is $14 and in that you get a $20 buffet dinner and two $10 vouchers coupons for Keno. I won $15 off those. Some my ticket was paid for. I dropped $22.50 on more Keno games. I played 10 $1 games of 5 numbers. I also did ‘high stakes’ Keno which I bet $1.25 per play and I did 10 plays on 15 numbers. Top innings for that is $40,000 for all 15 numbers. I hit 7 for a $9 win and got $2 on a win for the 5 play. So I lost $11.50 on Keno.
I played $10 on a 25 cent, 75 cent max bid slot machine. I hit twice for around $3 a pop and put it all back into the machine.
My brother and I got a little bored and had lost our group for awhile. We stopped to watch a band for a minute and sat around for awhile before searching out our group again. We located them and watched them play Caribbean Stud poker. The family friend got up and had me play her chips for awhile. I won money on all but one hand. Caribbean Stud poker at this casino works in that you ante $10 (minimum at this table) and then there’s a $1 sucker bet where maybe you can win a lot more of the stars align in the sky. I have yet to see anyone win the sucker bet. You get your five cards and decide whether to bet. The beat is always double the ante. So I was betting in essence, $30 a hand ($10 for the ante, $20 to bet). The dealer has to get a king or an ace to qualify. Qualifying means the house pays the wage of the player if the player beats the dealer. Otherwise, if the house doesn’t qualify you get the ante back and the same amount from the house. You ’win’ your ante amount. What I’m not sure of is if you have to beat the dealer to win the ante amount when the dealer doesn’t qualify.
So using the initial $15 she gave me, I walked away with a healthy stack of $5 chips because the bus was waiting. I think I lost only one hand during the playing. I cashed out and got a $100 bill again! Sweet! The family friend only wanted her $15 and that’s all she would take. She had left a few more chips on the table and some I had given to her dad who was playing so I think I really owed her a total of $30 but she would only take $15 back from me. She’s owned her own insurance business for a long time so she’s not really hurting for money but it was still really nice of her to do that for me. So I cleared $85 profit in the final 15 minutes or so of playing.
So in the end, I believe I walked away with about $180 in profit. I’ll take it. J Of course, if you count that I lost a night’s pay, then I really lost in the end but only like about $30 for a decent night out. That’s pretty good in my book.
Work is as unstable as ever. The pant just laid off another 29 people. As of this writing I’m not sure I even have a job. I’m pretty sure I do but it may not be in the same area or the same shift. I’m pretty low on the bumping chart with only a few people in my current room with less seniority. So I may have been bumped. This could actually be great news in a way. I severely dislike stamping. If I got bumped I should be able to bump someone else which would put me into a new job. It could also mean a change in pay or shift.
I also let it be known that I was interested in an office job. The custom logo department has an art room. It is where Top Flite transforms the image provided by the custom into a useable digital file that’s then burned to a small printing plate about the size of a legal envelope and used in the stamping machines. It could actually be yet another pay cut but it’s something I pretty much learned to do in college and at over printing type jobs I’ve had.
Top Flite also fired the plant manager and escorted him out of the building. The escort is apparently a common thing. Some people feel that it was more of a political decision rather than a performance issue to get rid of the plant manager. Of course, with the employee lay-off’s and the saying that we have to much stock, it sounds very familiar to what happened to Strathmore Papers just before it was sold off and moved out of state. We’ll see. I had hoped to work at Top Flite for 5 years but I might not make it.
A note on the art room office job. It’s not union. That could work for me as well as against me. There’s no one to bump me but I can be fired on the spot. I’m also not sure what holidays I would get. And the job is salary. If I get stuck working 60 hours on week, I get my standard weekly pay. I’ve never worked a salary job before so I know that if I worked over time I would be pissed. LOL!
So anyways, here's a blog that's a few days old:
Blog 030907
The casino was fairly fun I must say. I went down with a plan, stuck to it and made a small profit. The trip down kind of sucked because I was running on about 3 hours of sleep having worked the previous night. They played Kevin Costner’s The Guardian for a movie. It wasn’t great but wasn’t bad. I liked the training parts of the movies and liked the characters. The ending was ‘Hollywood’ and the movie had a feel of ‘been there, done that’ if you’ve seen ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’. Of course, that movie is around 20 years old now so maybe The Guardian seemed fresh to younger movie goers.
I will not deny that I rather enjoy looking at the females dressed up for the casino. My favorite of this trip was a young woman with dark or black hair pulled back sort of into a ponytail but from the top back of her head. She wore what I call a sweater dress. It was a sweater knit material that clung to her body and ended at her mid thigh. It was a pleasing shade of white – not to bright nor harsh on the eyes. The sleeves were either three quarters or she had then pushed up on her forearms, I can’t recall. She wore no belt. The sweater dress gave way to black stockings and black knee high boots. Her boots had a design stamped into the leather or something along with some metal studs I think. The heels were ice picks and very high, I’m thinking four inches. She was a fast walked considering her boots. She had a guy with her but I didn’t bother looking at him. She was literally turning heads. I turned to look and noticed at least one other guy too.
There were more too. Most of the people at the casino dress casually like they are going to the mall but there are enough that dress up to make things fun to watch. I liked an Asian woman in leather pants and a black shirt and cute to boot. There was a couple maybe in their 50’s or 60’s and the lady looked pretty good for her age. The guy was white haired and wearing a brighter shad of a blue or gray suit. She had blond hair cut stylishly short, a brownish dressed that showed her arms and legs and suede looking boots. She looked and her exposed flesh looked good. She had decent legs and her arms seemed decently toned for her age – no jiggling flesh or cellulite. It made me wonder if they were rich or just well dressed middle class. They looked sort of rich or upper middle class but who knows. They were after all, just walking around the whole time I saw them.
I did laugh a bit at one lady. Her outfit looked pretty good – tight gray dressy jeans, a fitted black leather jacket and some what ugly ass pumps with skyscraper heels and those toes that extend so far out from her foot that they looked like ancient Arabian shoes that had uncurled. But her face was a little rough and she had what I called a poodle hair cut. It’s where a woman’s hair is completely full of curls but the bulk of her hair seems to be like a mountain on the crown of her head. It had a very 1980’s feel to it. Her husband/boyfriend was a big guy with black hair. He reminded me of a younger version of Pussy from the Soprano’s. Maybe they were mob?
I only recall one woman in an evening dress. She was a young blond, I think I never really saw her face close up, in a red dress that showed a lot of flesh but mostly arm and back. She had on red pumps that looked like 5 inch heels. While she was good enough to remember, there was something about her aura or something that didn’t really impress me. Maybe it felt like she was over dressed since no one else looked like her.
I noticed that all the beverage serves/waitresses where middle aged women and usually a little rough looking in the face. I think most of them seemed in their 40’s or early 50’s. I was rather surprised by that. It seemed like the younger women employees were all dealers. There were a couple of cute ones too.
I might stick the white sweater dress ensemble on my super heroine Shadowdancer at some point. LOL!
Chow was okay. Dessert was better. I took some Black Forrest Cake, vanilla pudding, Jell-O, and a lemon marang (sic) pastry cup. I was sorry I was full because I missed the apple cobbler that I enjoyed last time and there was a white vanilla cake that looked GOOOOOD!
Supper was pork fried rice, mashed paper that had peppers in them (or something like that), ziti, and home fries.
I had a pretty good night gambling. I won way more hands than I lost. I always get a little ancy when deciding what to play and how to part with my money. I watched some of our group play before sitting down to play some Blackjack alongside my brother-in-law and family friend. I hit Blackjack once or twice which was cool. My system was that I had $60 for table games and anything I won went into my pocket. My $60, win or lose would take me as far as it could. After I lost my $60, I cashed out and was surprised to learn that I won $112! Not bad. All the $5 chips in my pocket were like a huge tumor on my leg. So it was cool to see a $100 bill being slipped back in my direction.
My brother and I wandered around for awhile and I check on my Keno winnings and played more Keno. The bus trip is $14 and in that you get a $20 buffet dinner and two $10 vouchers coupons for Keno. I won $15 off those. Some my ticket was paid for. I dropped $22.50 on more Keno games. I played 10 $1 games of 5 numbers. I also did ‘high stakes’ Keno which I bet $1.25 per play and I did 10 plays on 15 numbers. Top innings for that is $40,000 for all 15 numbers. I hit 7 for a $9 win and got $2 on a win for the 5 play. So I lost $11.50 on Keno.
I played $10 on a 25 cent, 75 cent max bid slot machine. I hit twice for around $3 a pop and put it all back into the machine.
My brother and I got a little bored and had lost our group for awhile. We stopped to watch a band for a minute and sat around for awhile before searching out our group again. We located them and watched them play Caribbean Stud poker. The family friend got up and had me play her chips for awhile. I won money on all but one hand. Caribbean Stud poker at this casino works in that you ante $10 (minimum at this table) and then there’s a $1 sucker bet where maybe you can win a lot more of the stars align in the sky. I have yet to see anyone win the sucker bet. You get your five cards and decide whether to bet. The beat is always double the ante. So I was betting in essence, $30 a hand ($10 for the ante, $20 to bet). The dealer has to get a king or an ace to qualify. Qualifying means the house pays the wage of the player if the player beats the dealer. Otherwise, if the house doesn’t qualify you get the ante back and the same amount from the house. You ’win’ your ante amount. What I’m not sure of is if you have to beat the dealer to win the ante amount when the dealer doesn’t qualify.
So using the initial $15 she gave me, I walked away with a healthy stack of $5 chips because the bus was waiting. I think I lost only one hand during the playing. I cashed out and got a $100 bill again! Sweet! The family friend only wanted her $15 and that’s all she would take. She had left a few more chips on the table and some I had given to her dad who was playing so I think I really owed her a total of $30 but she would only take $15 back from me. She’s owned her own insurance business for a long time so she’s not really hurting for money but it was still really nice of her to do that for me. So I cleared $85 profit in the final 15 minutes or so of playing.
So in the end, I believe I walked away with about $180 in profit. I’ll take it. J Of course, if you count that I lost a night’s pay, then I really lost in the end but only like about $30 for a decent night out. That’s pretty good in my book.
Work is as unstable as ever. The pant just laid off another 29 people. As of this writing I’m not sure I even have a job. I’m pretty sure I do but it may not be in the same area or the same shift. I’m pretty low on the bumping chart with only a few people in my current room with less seniority. So I may have been bumped. This could actually be great news in a way. I severely dislike stamping. If I got bumped I should be able to bump someone else which would put me into a new job. It could also mean a change in pay or shift.
I also let it be known that I was interested in an office job. The custom logo department has an art room. It is where Top Flite transforms the image provided by the custom into a useable digital file that’s then burned to a small printing plate about the size of a legal envelope and used in the stamping machines. It could actually be yet another pay cut but it’s something I pretty much learned to do in college and at over printing type jobs I’ve had.
Top Flite also fired the plant manager and escorted him out of the building. The escort is apparently a common thing. Some people feel that it was more of a political decision rather than a performance issue to get rid of the plant manager. Of course, with the employee lay-off’s and the saying that we have to much stock, it sounds very familiar to what happened to Strathmore Papers just before it was sold off and moved out of state. We’ll see. I had hoped to work at Top Flite for 5 years but I might not make it.
A note on the art room office job. It’s not union. That could work for me as well as against me. There’s no one to bump me but I can be fired on the spot. I’m also not sure what holidays I would get. And the job is salary. If I get stuck working 60 hours on week, I get my standard weekly pay. I’ve never worked a salary job before so I know that if I worked over time I would be pissed. LOL!
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