Home! Damn I love to walk through the door of my own little piece of heaven, quiet and calm, just as I left it 10 days ago when I headed out the door for Aruba. I arrived late on the night of the 21st.

My computer had a major hemorrhage the day I left town and I was in withdrawal for my baby and all its contents and contacts with the rest of the cyber world. But it would have to wait until business hours on Wednesday…so a few glasses of wine and I hit my bed around 1 a.m. My bed, the differences between the one I slept on in Aruba and mine are like trying to explain the differences between a Rolls Royce and a skate board.

I jumped up early on Wednesday, visited my son and his sweetie, got to see an ultrasound of my next grandchild, YIPPEEE!!!, and hit the computer shop. The long and short of it, they said they fixed it by replacing my sound card and video card. Ugh! Took it home, it still wouldn’t boot up. I seriously thought about drop kicking it through their office window…just a thought.

I replaced the A Drive with one that I had bought a year ago, it booted. I put my video and sound card back in, it booted (my video and sound card was much higher quality than the one they sold me), I started adding each item, network cable, it booted, etc., etc., etc. It took hours though and that takes a toll on my time for writing and answering email and staying in touch with the world that I’ve come to know and love, cyber…

The following day, I returned their sound and video cards and got a refund on them. The bottom line is I paid them $60 to baby sit my computer for 10 days. Whew! Normally I do all my own work but the way this happened, I figured that I would be out of town anyway and they’d have it running for me by the time I got home. Wrong!

Thursday night and Bellagio bound, I wondered if I could stand to punch the time clock one more night. The answer? Yes! I can stand it until I don’t have to do it anymore.

The room was busy. The high limit was in full swing and lots of players that were in Aruba were up in the top section. I missed all of that. Damn, how lucky can a woman get? I dealt the lower and middle limit games, sat down in a Dead Spread and got rerouted right back through the same games I’d just dealt. Sweet!

I was beat! Aruba found me living the daylight hours and now I’m adjusting back to Swing Shift and Dracula Land. I’ll get there.

The first part of the ‘Ultimate Trip Report’.

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I was part of this project. Sweet!
Howard Lederer’s ‘Secrets of No Limit Holdem’