I'm having some tea and getting ready to run some errands. Pet store, library, groceries.

Hunter Thompson once said that if the Nazis had won WWII they would have made Las Vegas the capitol of the United States. I take that as a hint as to which side of the argument he came down on. And he was man with a both a lot of skanky and a lot of awesome.

Huh. My doctor gave me some samples of a prescription anti-inflammatory gel. I was kind of skeptical, since topical pain relievers never did much of anything before, but this stuff seems to actually work, at least a little bit.

yay for working drugs !

Yay for working drugs x2!

I have never been to Vegas. I'm vaguely intrigued by it. Lewis HATES it, but it's because he always has to go for his company's annual manager's conference. He says he's fairly certain he'd have more fun if I was there.

Although the '07 conference was at least made more interesting by the idiots who thought it would be a good idea to skinny dip in one of the fountains at Mandalay Bay. Eleven store managers all fired on the same day-- from the same district no less.

I don't like Vegas at all, but I think it's a ton of fun if you're going to play with friends and see shows and such. I just have zero interest in gambling and get a little twitchy around huge crowds, so...

But I'm always up for meeting friends there. Then it's just a playground.

I think if I had the money for the shows, I'd like going. I'm not a huge gambler, there's no draw there. Like Pix, I'd go if it was with a bunch of friends to just hang out with friends, gawk at the frantic folks heading for the casinos and maybe some shopping.

I don't like gambling, either, and I'm also not great with crowds. I've only been to Vegas once, and didn't really like it, but there could be something there that I'd like better that I just didn't see that time.

I think I'd have fun in Vegas but I'd mostly want to see the shows which gets expensive fast.

I am back from the pet store where I succeeded in spending ridiculous amounts of money on the pets. Next stop: library.

My day:

• Toto probably has a collapsed trachea and will need an xray to confirm.

• Toto's lump under his left front leg has quadrupled in size, and while it doesn't look like it's cancerous, it needs to be removed because it is impeding his movement.

• The above will cost $400.

• I have fluid in my ear that's not draining. I waited three hours at urgent care to find that out. Also to find out that there is nothing I can do about it except wait until it turns into an infection in a week or so.

• Because of the above, I missed the Skate-a-Palooza event with a bunch of my friends, and I'm sad.

Sometimes I hate my life--also the amount of time I spend in waiting rooms.