I'm heading to "Sin City" for a week long conference and not sure how much time I'll have to post updates here. Most people hear you're going to Vegas for work and they say "sure, I bet it's work".
I'm not attracted to either to the common sins in Vegas. Sure they can have a woman in your room in 30 minutes, but I have a beautiful woman at home, why would I want anything else? And as for gambling, that's a "sin" that's wrongly named. Gambling implies there's some chance of winning, when I do it it's called "losing".
So I get up east coast time, catch up on work, go to conferences all day, entertain customers at night and come back worn out. Lots of fun.
Churches in Vegas....
I've been to Vegas before, but it's been about 7 or 8 years, so I did some research into the town. It may come as a surprise to you, but there are more Catholic churches than casinos in Las Vegas.
Not surprisingly, some worshippers at sunday services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed. Since they get chips from many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings.
The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in.
The one going to the casino to retrieve the cash is known as the chip monk....
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Ha! Good one.
I'm going to Vegas in a couple months for an Internal Audit conference (motto: "As boring as it sounds!")
I tend to agree with Dave Barry, who said something like, "When going to Vegas the most efficient thing is to just go in, dump out your wallet, and leave."
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