We three went to Foxwoods this weekend. It's primarily an indian (red) Casino and an all-in-one thing with food, drinks, entertainment. There was live jazz and there was also a dance club called B.B. King. Quite a pleasing coincidence for all these 2 weeks I've been listening to BB when in my car. It was closed though... not that I'd have rocked the dance floor if it were open. The people dancing with the live jazz were all above 50, and a real portly old man moving just his belly and hands, and intermittently a leg looked cute. A short old lady was not at all graceful but could move her shoulders quite nice, so her dance was mostly well timed shirks. Sat there wathcing and listening a few songs, then on bhaiya's behest left in the middle of a song. I said, impolite. Bhaiya said, chalta hai.
So at the casino, we didn't know how to play any game. What we knew to play or rather operate was the slot machine. So we got $40 worth of quarters and I squandered away my $20 in 10 minutes on 3 machines. Got back redemption tickets worth some 6-7 bucks. But bhabhi, true to her lucky-lady acclaim that bhaiya had talked about won us back what we had started with, just a quarter shy of $40. Baniyon ki aabru rakh li. I've decided to be back the next time with the knowledge of craps and blackjack, and win some good bucks. Already gathered some basics at the lunch table today from a colleague. Only once before have I won something I didn't toil to earn. Almost everyone curses his luck in chance games, and still people manage to find time and money to indulge. And they say, house always wins in Casinos. Odds are always against the players. Gambling is big money. I wonder why gujjus here haven't entered this line of business yet. Is it prohibited? Maybe there's a federal law. It certainly makes sense not to allow gujjus, else we'll soon see dollar rains in Gujarat.
I also clicked away furiously with my new Canon SD500. In the car, at the shopping mall and at foxwoods. Almost exhausted the 32 MB card and then when trying to figure out the free space, formatted the card. Then re-exhausted the card and acted smarter this time by not checking the free space and changing to the mammoth 1 Gig card. It's sure to last me the week provided I don't go trigger happy like yesterday night. I've to capture the 4 cisco buildings, and the hotel and the team here if possible. And this weekend is sure going to need all the memory I have in that card.
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