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the days are bright
and filled with pain
enclose me in your
gentle rain
- Morrison
Fun night. We stayed the night at a casino hotel located in our former home town (at most a mile from the house in which we used to live, as a matter of fact), meeting up with a couple of my wife's cousins, who were definitely in party mode.
I wound up sitting at a machine with my wife because the automated craps machine (the dice-rolling aspect) was seemingly down, a couple techs hovering over it, the screen normally showing a literal pair of large dice outcomes instead showing various diagnostic windows. It was probably for the best.
After the ups and downs of that mindlessness, we had a glorious "comp'd" dinner. My wife and I shared a double cheeseburger and some fantastic barbecued nachos. Lots of fun, playful (heh... originally typed 'playerful'..) conversation.
I headed back to the room after that, fairly zonked from lesser sleep the night before, which was accentuated by a "gummy" I'd popped before we hit the casino floor. Getting back to the room was crucial for me, facilitating getting properly ready for sleep, head hitting the pillow at a reasonable hour, decent sleep, and awakening early naturally.
She's still snoring up a storm. I had to flip orientation in the middle of the night after her snoring awakened me. I usually wear earplugs, but had forgotten to bring them. Fortunately, she managed to quiet down enough after that reorientation for me to fall asleep soundly again.
FWIW, I *occasionally* see others through what I want to called "naturally occurring intelligence tests" (see also: "who does/doesn't know 'rocket science'"), for example:
A more involved such test is being able to come to accurate conclusions as to how some casino bets give a player better odds than others, which I suddenly want to call "avoiding the casino /dev/null monster".
That led me to the craps table years ago, a place where one has a fun, fighting chance when sticking to lower house edge bets.
I've also enjoyed my modest software development skills providing the opportunity to investigate possible "strategies". Of course, there is no surely-winning strategy against house edge with respect to game outcomes odds. But it can be fun to see less whimsical bet combination approaches play out more quickly on a screen than when slowed down by all the real table socializing and/or shenanigans.