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Visiting Las Vegas in October is slowly becoming an annual event. Every year my wife's company has a convention during October for a few days. Instead of coming home when the event is over I fly down and spend the weekend with her and her colleagues. This year, the trip turned out to fall on my birthday weekend. So, last Friday I found myself sitting at a blackjack table in the Caesar Palace Casino waiting for Andrea to finish with her presentation. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon or a birthday weekend.

For one reason or another we seem to visit Vegas a few times a year. Andrea's work ends up taking her there more often than mine. Most of the time, I visit for pleasure while she is there for work.

Vegas is an interesting place to visit. Good and bad, sexy and disgusting all wrapped up in the desert oasis where inhibitions disappear at the bottom of a Malibu and orange juice. Each time I go there I have a blast. By the end of the trip, I'm ready to go home. There is only so much debauchery even I can take in one sitting. Andrea was excited because she won a $1000 on a slot machine. It's rare to leave Vegas a winner. This time around we did okay and had a good time.

Time to get back to the realities of life. Ah, well, I'll be going back in January for the Consumer Electronics Show. Can't wait to see all the new stuff in electronics coming up for the next year. Now, that is real fun.   ¶ 4:55 PM