Yeah...most of my dining in Vegas has been at buffets...and even then, prices range drastically depending on where you are.  A beffet in the 'downtown', Old Vegas area can be $15-20, for beakfast or brunch.  A good bargain buffet down on the strip is, like, $40-55 for brunch.  Lots of good food...but I don't think the food on the Strip is THAT much better.  If you're ever down there and want a good deal on food, but not a huffet, hit Hash House a-Go-Go, in the Plaza downtown (I also think they've got one at The Linq, on the Strip, but I haven't eaten there.)  HUGE servings, and prices comparable to, say, Applebee's or Chili's.

But the fine-dining restaurants in Vegas gouge you, especially if they have a good view.  Last year, a guy in our group was having a birthday, and his very-well-off mother paid for us to have dinner at one of those restaurants, at the Rio.  The food was good...but you were definitely paying extra for the ambience.

 yeah?.. no danger  in me goign there?.. My brother  would haven't went  had not is  future  son-in-law helped  pay for the trip.

 not that i wouldn't like to go to see?

Well starting my Holiday by getting 'Jiggy' with it.  less than 10 minutes ago we just had a 5.4 quake.
Living in Alaska it is kind of common, but timing is just a tad odd.  lol
Two years ago we had a couple of strong ones (over 7.0).  One about 1am (it did some damage) and another just about an hour before I was leaving to go to a wedding out of state.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljP8E3ZHJ0I

Not my house or me-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdFWPofTK08

Where in Alaska do you live? I spent a few years there with a programme that lets foreign doctors live and work whilst doing a residency for under-served populations. I was in Barrow, Bethel, and Anchorage working at the native hospitals and loved it there.

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 32):

I was in Anchorage when that 7.1 quake occurred. I ended up with a painful back strain because the bloody thing nearly tossed me out of bed.

Just south of Anchorage, just past Potters Marsh.

I ended up by my couch after my cat (now gone) decided during that quake he had to be outside and ran head first into my glass porch door, then his in the fireplace.  I sat on the floor next to my couch until it was over.

I miss it and think of going back now and again but was terribly homesick whilst I was there. Talk about culture shock!

might not be so great right now.  lol.  apparently we also have a volcano going off out towards the Aleutians.  At first when I heard 'volcano eruption' I thought it might have to do with nearby Redoubt volcano...nope a bit further out..Its Veniaminov! (most of our volcanoes have a blend of native Aleut and Russian names).  Anyhow it is spewing ash and some lava.  If we do get ash fallout it will be a dusting, but most of the volcanoes are strato or compsite cones and can explode violently.  Novrupta (aka Katmai), back in 1912 and was the largest eruption in that century (including Pinatubo).  what can I say...Alaska today is just a rocking and a rolling, shaking and baking.

  Well Volcanos aside... Here's  to a good  Thanksgiving to all those  who celebrate... and for those  who do not...Happy Thursday!

I was in Anchorage when the fires were burning all around and the air was foul with smoke. I had ash on my car every day when I left for work at ANMC.

Ah...you were here for the Willow fire.  Have to say it did make fore beautiful sunrises and sunsets.

Anyhow...Happy Thanksgiving to all.

This is true. They were quite lovely but the air quality was wretched.

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Shade is the real MVP of this game
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he's just  doing   his  job...and being short doesn't hurt...didn't hurt there is no  film on him or Zob!

Yeah...hard to block a guy when you can't see him until he hits you...his shoulder line is about even with the solar plexus on some of these guys.  Even with pads on, a solid hit right there is gonna take something out of you.  And he's a freakin' tank...not the fastest thing on the battlefield, but if you don't set up right, he'll roll right over you.

There was a guy on my high school football team (which was terrible when the school first opened...won three games in three years, and the first year they won nothing...the year after I graduated, they won the state championship).  He ran like a tank...if he had half a hole in the line, he'd get seven or eight yards, usually with four guys hanging on him before they finally dragged him down.  If he made it through the line clear, he was usually good for fifteen to twenty yards.  And he didn't take any of the steam off when he was blocking.

 yep.  Verians  are heavier  by nature. Lilit, Dusk, Shade ( and  one must figure there  are others  out there) have Musculature , instead  of  bio-gears and  such.

 One of the reasons  Teela had  to strain ( and  roll to see) when she picked  Shade up the avalanche , was to see if  even , Angel strength  could lift him..

As he gets faster.. he  can be  more dangerous
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 GAme Note:... to save time and posts...  Beth   will have COM Texted   a Mass text to all Hermes  people (  and  then forwarded to Other Ship's  COM chief)


  Attention all Delta Fleet  crew.... Etna is  is undercomign some  changes.... APF SEC  are considered  safe.... Etna SEC with a  Red  bar on thier    left shoulder  are  cleared... If the  red bar is absent, they have not been formally cleared by the  new  SEC CHief on  Etna... that is all

Etna got wrecked hard....

yep..and  we had soem better  guys  who  were killed or  transferred to colonies..so?..they got  off lucky!

I guess Zob and Shade are gonna become more popular now among the Hermes folks.... should be interesting.

well?.. for normal  folks?.. new  folks  and  some other  might still have some issues. could be like that for some time to come?.. but..not  all people like Shadow either!

  its  11:23 PM here  as I write this.

 I have the  Etna threads  moved to the front....as per normal, all people who are going on Ops, or ,,merely support  at one of the parties

 those who don't want in on the Ops.. post esle where on Etna ( etna thread)..or?.. If you go back to the ship..any thread there.

 I may be back later.. if nothing esle   I make a few posts in the morning, then  hit the boards  hard when I come back from football.

Ok shadows condo will be in the Etna Condo thread yes?
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