Day #2 of our little Palm Springs gambling expedition and we have a winner! On our way home from the old Sinatra stomping grounds our last stop was Morongo Casino. After a few hours of up and downs on the penny slots my parents had to leave to start their 2 and a half hour drive back up the the other desert, Antelope Valley. Don’t be fooled by the name. There’s no Antelopes there and no greenery to support them … all desert. I digress. Wandering the casino alone, listing to all the bells and chimes of the machines and the chip clatter from the tables, I stop at a machine called 50 dragons and get set to pull my wallet from my pocket when a little old man cuts right in front of me and drops a $10 bill into the machine. Secretly praying for him to go broke on that machine I begrudgingly set up post on the machine directly to the right of him, also a 50 Dragons game. No sooner than 8 pulls or so later my screen fills with dragon faces and starts pouring out flying gold coins. A quick $66 and some odd change win. I tell the little guy next to me thanks, hit the cash out button and walk away with a nice triple up on cash.

The moral of the story is that sometimes an asshole can turn out to be just a speed bump in your road to riches … or in my case, gas money.

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• Tip: Despite being one of the most awesome inventions ever, the iPhone 3Gs is not the best camera in the world. I know, shocker!

Time to play some catch up. I didn’t really plan this whole “post a day, everyday” thing very well when planning out of town trips. Next time i’ll have to schedule my posts (Thanks WordPress!!!). For now i’ll just roll back my post date. Hey, my blog, my rules.

Remember the movie “Big” with Tom Hanks. Well, if you were alive in the 80′s you should! It’s one of those feel good, love who you are not who you want to be, type of movies. Basically Tom Hanks wants to be older so he find this fortune telling machine that ends up granting him one wish. Yadda yadda, boom he’s older and now has to do grown up things. Man, I should be a movie reviewer. haha.

This was the fortune teller from the movie. Found it tucked away in the corner of Morongo Casino this weekend on my way back from Palm Springs. So excited to se this memory-sparking relic i eagerly put in my $1 to get my fortune. Waiting … standing, staring … nothing. The damn thing stole my dollar. Not sure if i should take that as some kind of doom and gloom message from the gods, but i chalked it up to faulty wiring and went on with my day. So, hope i’m around to keep this blog going … muha ha haaaaa.

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Well, this would mean my long stint from my blog may be over. I need my outlet back and I still want to do my big re-design. In time. In time. For now, here’s a tilt-shift photo from my iPhone.