Twittering In Vegas
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
I'm back from the Vegas trip and still recuperating actually :) because I went big, wrapping up the last day and a half by staying up 48 hours with a 3 hour nap break. I did okay poker-wise, ending up cash positive for the week with some monster winning sessions at the MGM Grand. A coworker today confirmed that they have a soft poker room there - his buddy is on the WPT tour and came up as a pro in Vegas taking tourists at MGM's loose games. I got to hang out with fellow 3ones brother Christian Spinillo for the first time - it was great to actually finally meet one of my digital tribe face-to-face. He also did pretty well poker-wise the last time we talked, mainly at the Palms I think. The Adobe conference itself was hit and miss - I'm putting together a presentation with the coworkers that I went with, so I'll repost here later this week or next for the nerds.
Also while I was away, I sent status updates via my Twitter page. Twitter is a neat service, one I've been utterly addicted to in the last few months. Looking back on the updates I sent during last week's trip, they give a little bit of a hint of the rollercoaster ride that was last week:
- doing one last crucial batch of laundry before heading to Vegas for the bigass Adobe conference.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/47407
- walking through my neighborhood pre-dawn like a thief in the night and commuting out to SFO. And starting to get excited for the week's adventures.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/47551
- totally repulsed by all the sales and marketing types I'm meeting at the Adobe conference. My three coworkers and I have made ZERO geek friends here.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/48456
- enjoying my winnings after my first poker session ever in Vegas, about to head back for more.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/48645
- walking around the Caesar's mall with Christian from 3ones while he does hubby shopping duties.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/49138
- finally sitting with some genuine sharks at Caesar's poker room and just barely staying even while watching them bully everybody around.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/49353
- just waking up from a 3 hour nap after an all-night poker session, about to go on an even bigger bender for 24 hours with no sleep until I fly back.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/50227
- wishing Kelly Abbott was playing poker with me here in Vegas - I've only been robbing strangers until now.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/50562
- just leaving SFO - even the air is better here. So glad to be back from the smokey hell that is Vegas, regardless of winning at poker.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/51030
- finally home and ready to crash. My tank is on E like a procrastinating slacker going into finals week. Or so I've heard.
- http://twitter.com/alabut/statuses/51056
If you want to try out being a Twitter buddy, send me your email or phone number and I'll send out an invite.
So yeah, I think I sucked it up and did Vegas right. Not only that, I did all the partying while kicking off the first week of the Atkins diet, and the first two weeks are way hard. No caffeine, no alcohol, a boatload of water - it was like a detox. I've been meaning to kick caffeine for over two years and the withdrawal wasn't as bad as I thought. Then again, I was away from work and didn't have to do any programming or anything else as intensive as that. Plus the buffets really help in crafting together exactly the meal you want. It's going to be a challenge to keep it up now that I'm back in town and have to do some cooking. That's a whole other post though, probably in a few weeks with a status update.
Man, it is so damn great to be back home.
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