Reno

So After two days in Vegas, we traveled to Reno, Nevada for a day off. We arrived at the Sierra Grand Resort (a casino) and got our rooms. After getting ourselves situated, a bunch of us headed to the go-kart track on the property. I can't remember the last time I was in a go-kart, but it's still a blast. I just wish they were a little faster. Then we all played a game of laser tag at the casino's arcade. Then I beat a couple guys at air hockey. Now THAT's a sport I can get behind. I feel like I'm on a reality show.

Later we met up at the Xtreme Sports Bar to eat dinner and watch some hockey (the non-air type) on the typical large multiple flatscreens. A few pints in, someone had the horrible idea of buying a round of Patron shots. It might have been me. And that proved to be a catalyst for an adventurous evening. And a bad, bad morning.

At one point, a go-go girl audition "broke out" on the dance floor. So now I'm buzzed, watching hockey, with a dozen hot girls gyrating all around me. It was tough, but I hung in there for the whole audition. You know, because I would hate to crush the dreams of a young barely-dressed future starlet by carelessly leaving during the...performance. The next thing I remember is being asked, "Dude....you coming bowling with us?" So drunken bowling it was. Jesus.

The next day I scraped myself out of bed and dragged my bags through the casino to the venue (inside casino as well). It took me at least twice as long as usual to get my gear together. At one point, I was hurting so bad, I just curled up on the floor, with my head resting on my monitor wedge, and went to sleep. Just before I did, though, I had a thought: "some asshole is going to see me asleep, and get the great idea to send some loud sound effect through the wedge I'm sleeping against, to startle me witless, while videotaping it." I swear, it was that clear to me. So I turned that amplifier off before I nodded off. And sure enough, those motherfuckers! They concocted a scheme to send the sound of a loud doorbell through the wedge, while Aaron Bleyaert, the webmaster/blogger for the show, videotaped it with his iphone, perhaps to put up on his blog. That son of a bitch! But I outsmarted them this time, and Bley's video tomfoolery was foiled. Revenge will be mine nonetheless...... all of them, they're going DOWN!