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Cake day: October 13th, 2025
  • I’ve been to casinos twice, and hosted countless $10 buy-in hold 'em games at my place years ago.

    On the poker games I definitely lost out more often than winning anything. But had good times.

    Went to Vegas once for a 311 concert a little over 10 years ago, and obviously went to a casino where I stayed, because I’m east coast, so I go on my farthest trip from home ever to the gambling capital of the world, of course you go to the casino.

    Would have loved to try some Hold 'Em there, but never saw any table games at all running. The only thing I saw happening at all was slot machines.

    Do I brought $50 cash with me one day and left my wallet in the room. Lasted for hours, but lost it all eventually. Which is what I assumed would happen, and why I didn’t bring my wallet with me.

    A couple years later the group that went on that trip was going to a casino somewhere within about 5 hours from here. Can’t remember where exactly. Not Atlantic City, but somewhere on this side of the country.

    Anyway, actually won about $125-150 or so. Bought fast food dinner for the group with it, kept about $40 or so.

    So given that I had a good time, I’d say I came out ahead.

  • Those boxes are newer than the ones I had at the school lab, but still probably similar.

    My school just have gotten broadband earlyish.

    I remember finding out they had Internet access, but all I knew about it at the time was dialup services, and there were no icons there that seemed to be related to the Internet at all, except for Internet Explorer itself. (version 5.0, new at the time)

    I actually had to ask the school librarian how to get online. She said “just open an explorer window”, and I thought that was weird because I knew how to use it, but I was asking how to GET online, not how to browse.

    But I tried it and it just worked. I must have done an early version of a poggers face.