Life is chaos. Everyone\u2019s \u201cKung Fu fighting.\u201d Feeling assaulted by AI? $5 gas? $6?! Me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did have a great birthday, though. Friends showed up, big time. Cards, letters, songs, CAKE! (by the ocean), meals, gifts \u2014 it\u2019s really nice being appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And for a kid who was surprised to make it out of high school alive (remember the very unPC term \u201cjuvenile delinquent?\u201d Yeah, honors in THAT class) and survived two years of hell recently (including five surgeries) seven-oh\u2019s a big number for me. Okay, they haven\u2019t named a street after me \u2026 yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there are all the fab birthday deals spanning days and nights of free food, play, and fun to tickle my scuffler fancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately, I couldn\u2019t make Vegas for this year\u2019s birthday. I just wanted to play some VP and go dancing, but I broke my toe banging into a coffee table leg, so no
\u201cbreaking\u201d for this dancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even when I\u2019m not IN Vegas, I monitor email offers, mailers, etc. and was happy to see all the deals going on at Four Queens (and elsewhere). However, the cost of their Silver Slots tourney seemed a LOT higher. Signing up for the $12K event was 360 smackolas. They do give a $75 one-ounce silver token, so call it $285. Still didn\u2019t it used to be $99 or $149?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During December and again now, Wynn\u2019s standard offer to me, $174 a night (includes the $55-per-night resort fee), $25 each free play and food credit got very good by adding two tickets to Awakening. Two nights minus all that is, as Anthony counts it, $28 a night at Wynn. Winner winner XS Nightclub for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I almost had a heart attack (bad joke; been there). My new Rainbow Emerald Island mailer came without their super points multiplier pay schedules. Noooo!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Called in \u2026 still in place \u2026 phew! And being their top-notch \u201cRainbow is customer service,\u201d she wanted to know, \u201cDo you play at the bar? Different schedules.\u201d And \u201cDo you want me to READ the multiplier schedule over the PHONE?\u201d Wow. Some casinos won\u2019t even answer the phone. Oh, I can also \u201cpick up the printed schedule at the cashiers booth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides amazing monthly food deals, you can now use your points for Lyft to and from the casino and at many nearby Water Street venues. Innovative.
There still is gold at the end of Water Street\u2019s Rainbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last question. Timeshares? Ever done the deed? In a fit of lunacy, I took the $200 offer.
Let Hilton try to close me \u2014 heck, why not? True story: Years ago, my ex and I went on a timeshare weekend on the Outer Banks. I just said, \u201cHoney, in the presentation, I have THE LAST word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She chatted on and on about curtains and colors so much that the salesman was already spending his commission. Then he finished. I looked him in the eye and said one word. \u201cNo.\u201d He got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep scuffling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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