The Vegas Strep

[thehefner]

I'm bumming off a Panera Bread's free Wifi, killing time until 3 when I can finally check into my hotel and die. The inside of Magnolia smells like three unbathed, unshaved days of the stress of going through the Oregon mountains all the way through Idaho and Utah without snow tires while nursing a flu that might possibly be strep.*

I feel like shit in a crock pot, but I'm in Vegas, pallies.

Coo-coo.




*But probably not. After five days, my brutal sore throat is *finally* getting better, but I still feel warm and stuffy. If I don't feel a marked improvement, I'm gonna find a walk-in clinic and end up paying a hundred and something dollars for peace of mind. And/or antibiotics.

Comments

[karmaflouge.livejournal.com]

Yay, you survived! Paul Turner (an ex-rude from the early days) moved to Reno a couple months ago...wish you knew him enough to look him up. Durn.

You realize you've timed your roadtrip to end with you arriving in DC around Inaugeration?....

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Barely! Considering I spent last night sleeping in a truck stop, in full winter gear and tons of blankets to protect from the 15-degree weather, I say that's an accomplishment! Flu or no flu!

Oh, I very much do realize that. I no wanna go, because I hate hate hate crowds and it will be insane getting to and fro just to stand so far away that I can only see it on screens that I might as well just be at home or at a bar watching it on TV... but my brother insists. The things I do for history.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

Oh, you smegface. Am I going to have to feed you soup in addition to pie?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Since it doesn't feel like swallowing shards of glass anymore (just a little lumpy and tender in the throat now), I'd say I'm improving. Maybe. Hopefully. Otherwise, yes. But pie is the priority.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

You are obsessed with the pie. Relax, there will be pie. I promised you pie: you will have an abundance of pie. Practically a proposterously plentiful plethora of pie.

[bagelofdeath.livejournal.com]

TERRIBLE! BUT AWESOME!

VEGAS!!

I AM SO JEALOUS!!!

I have fallen so behind on constructing anything Catwomanesque. I've ordered stuff for Mark II (Dan Diego), but I haven't got stuff that's due to arrive in time for Mark I (New York)> OH GOD.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

TERRIBLE! BUT AWESOME!

Story of my life, baby.

You can pull it off! I have faith in you! You've got little less than a month, I'm sure you'll find 'em! I mean, if you need to get them online, then I'd say get on that ASAP, but otherwise, it'll be all good. You're a dedicated geek.

Dan Diego sounds like the name of some swarthy Spanish or Mexican rogue, wearing an open-chested frilly shirt and grinning suavely a lot under a mighty yet trimmed mustache.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Should you find yourself about town, wave at the tigers at the Mirage for me. Also, see the old strip.

Feel better soon.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna see if I can't make it over to the tigers at the Mirage. Tonight's my night to take advantage of the free stuff on the strip!

I wasn't aware that there was an old strip, but I think I inadvertently went there on my search for one of the last of the Rat Pack era casinos, the Golden Nugget. That area was like all of Route 66 crammed in one long block.

The health situation has taken a turn for the Hefnerian. More later.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you found exactly the place I meant.

Of other random things to see in Vegas that aren't the Strip (as I assume you have that part covered), there is the Ethel M chocolate factory and cactus garden.