Well, guys it's time to get out the house grab my wife and take a couple days off. We should be back in town on Wednesday all rested up. We decided not to go to New Orleans but to Shreveport, LA instead because it's only a short drive compared to New Orleans at eight hours speeding.

So we got hotel and buffet free thanks to her comps by playing in their casino. I play so little I never get any comps but she can sit and play for hours on the penny machines. I play the quarter machines that take two quarters, never the one that takes three quarters because that's 75 cent each pull. Then of course I can ride around in the casino watching other people play and win.

Really the machines are not my game but with one hand it's very hard to play cards without bending them all up. The other players keep asking for a new deck after each deal so I just stopped playing before they think I was trying to cheat. In fact a guy said one time to me and the dealer that card games were for two handed players. He apologised to me as I was getting up from the table and thanked me for my service to our country. He didn't realize I had been wounded and had a stroke too. I spend a lot of time watching card games at different tables while sitting on my scooter.

It's good for all of us here to "Get Away" once in a while if we can and get refreshed in the brain. Especially for our care givers too, they really need the breaks and my wife really enjoys her time away from that bank job. I guess it does feel good handling your own money in the casino after handling the banks money day after day for weeks at a time.

We never expect to win just come back home with much of what we left with. I manage to win most of the times probably because I don't keep sitting there and put it all back in the machine. I see many people do that all the time. For any of you that remember the cups of coins you carried around from one machine to another...well now you cash out and a paper slip is printed. You never get your hands all dirty and they have machines to cash out the slips so you don't have to stand in long lines to get 20 dollars back. For me on a scooter that's a real deal not being in lines.

Happy Columbus Day to all of you, stay safe! See Ya in a couple days. :big_grin: :happydance:

Fred!