So here it is. My first trip to a real B&M casino.

We arrived at Turning Stone around noonish, and decided to gamble before checking into our room. I brought with me $300 (I generally play between 40c and $1, but even only taking $300 was optomistic).

I was murdered my first few games, $20, $20, $20... nothing, nothing, nothing. So I sat down at my nemesis, Stinkin' Rich (100 lines, 1c/line.. $1 a spin). I always.. ALWAYS get killed on this slot. But the...

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I thought I'd blog for no apparant reason. Perhaps procrastinating on a term paper is the cause, but I chose not to think about it.

I'm sorry if I seem like a giant skeptic, but I feel like online casino software providers 3Dice and Rival have excessively sub-par payouts. I just sat down for a session at Rival, 500 (roughly?) on Scary rich. 7 bonuses, none paying over 10x. $50 gone. It's not that I wasn't upset I lost, I was upset I didn't enjoy it.

When I go to...

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Well, it was almost like being with him. I had a chance to catch Sheik Yerbouti - a German F. Zappa cover band at the Colos Saal here in Aschaffenburg.

What was amazing was that Napoleon Murphy Brock accompanied them - which gave them a truly authentic sound. I saw Zappa in '77 twice - once at Winterland in SF, and then again at the Stanford Auditorium at Stanford U. I was having some cool flash backs.

And they played all my favorite songs! Yay!

The awkward...

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