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- I went skydiving for the first time. Had to go tandem. If ever there is a good time to have a dude strapped to your back, it’s when you’re skydiving for the first time.

- Can you put a price on the feeling you get after gambling all night, losing everything, then making the slow walk back to your hotel in morning daylight? I can. It’s about $400.

- Speaking of the slow morning walk back to the hotel, I think it should be legal to punch anyone in the face who is seen jogging or biking on the strip at 8:00 in the morning.

- I saw Bill Walton at Tryst (nightclub at The Wynn). He was flying solo and stayed for a grand total of 94 seconds. That was just awful. He’s gotta get his head in the game.

- Casino Royale itself is a hole, but you can gamble all night for $4 a hand, beers are a dollar, and it’s next door to Denny’s. Can’t get much better than that.

- I heard that song by Gnarls Barkley 387 times, but I still love it.

- What should the penalty be for your friend at the nightclub who fills his entire glass with vodka when the whole group just plopped down $300 for the bottle?

- Las Vegas is the only place in the world where you can drive out to the desert, hop on a plane, jump out of it, and on the way back to your hotel, stop off at a store that lets you shoot semi-automatic machine guns for fun. At least I think it is.

- Why hasn’t In N Out burger made it out east yet? Same question for Del Taco. Better question: Do Sonic Burger's even exist? I see the commercial all the time, but I've never seen one. I think someone with way too much money to spend on fake advertising is having a good laugh over this.

- The Wynn has the greatest pool and the greatest rooms, but it's not a place you'd want to gamble at. Across the street, The New Frontier has crappy rooms and a crappy pool, but good gambling. Faced with these choices, take the nicer pool. You can always walk across the street to gamble, but you don't want to be swimming in a pool where that scene in "Cocoon" was filmed.