Hiya gang Candace, you said: "BTW, Where's Ben Braver been lately??? "
I'm touched that you asked !! :-) <so should I say to my wife "hey honey, this cute lady on the cf list touched me? ;-) > Was on vacation in Las Vegas from Wed. through Sun., then came back to a pile of work and couple of crises. BTW set up an additional e-mail address for the list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Still have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the pure "personal" email. Da kid here had a BLAST in LV - didn't spend one cent in the casinos, but dropped a TON of money on restaurants and entertainment. Restaurants - all totally yummy - included: - Picasso at Bellagio (most $$$$ I ever spent on one meal, awesome, but not big portions. Wife called it half- jokingly the most expensive snack we ever had <ha>.) - Samba at Mirage (the Brazilian rodizio "cycle" rotisserie where they bring 9 different meats/fishes to your table and carve them onto your plate) - buffet at Paris Las Vegas (different stations for each province of France, plus Les Jardins and the desserts) - Coyote Cafe at MGM Grand (Santa Fe cuisine) Saw Blue Man Group, Hoover Dam, and the Thunderbirds airshow at Nellis. And let us not forget the Star Trek Experience at the LV Hilton. Amazing "History of the Future" museum. Huge collection of props/costumes. Plus timeline of history from Einstein through Voyager. Spent a couple of hours there. Super ride (motion simulator like "Star Tours" at Disney) and "theater" (crew members playing roles). You get pulled through a time rift, beamed onto the Enterprise (NextGen version), go down a turbolift and through corridor to shuttle bay. On shuttle mission you get in middle of battle between Enterprise and Klingons. End up going back through wormhole, emerge at south end of Las Vegas Strip, weaving around casino/hotels at night while being shot at. Awesome. Wife had to close eyes part of the time <puny human>. Have photo of me sitting in Captain's chair on bridge. Also cool photo of me as part of ST:TOS crew. Ah, then the DS9 Promenade shops, spent way too much. Got a Star Fleet Academy t-shirt and a blue Sciences tunic like Spock's. (Long-sleeve t-shirt with insignia.) Quark's Restaurant and Bar. I vaguely remember drinking the "mini" version of something called a Warp Core Breach, served (foaming) in a bowl on a metal stand, containing 5 different kinds of rum. Menu said it had 5 ounces of alcohol. Felt like I had been hit by phaser on heavy stun. (not-mini version for 2 has 11 ounces!) Tried to pick a fight with a Klingon <g> - he made a comment about the Enterprise being towed away as garbage (line from "Trouble with Tribbles"), I said "You call yourself a warrior? HA! I know what you fear - fabric softener, Kling Free!!" He snarled "You dare to mention it?" A Ferengi asked my wife how much for her wedding ring. She replied it was priceless, not for sale. Ferengi replied that only worthless things were priceless, everything else had a price. I said "including your mother?" He said "Of course!" Borg wanted to know why we were consuming food and beverage. Said after we were assimilated we would just need regeneration. I said "who do you think you are, Microsoft?" Actually got a smile <g>. Tried to come back to work to rest, but that was not to be <g>. Gradually returning to some semblance of normal. -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
