but I still had a good time last night. I was sitting around in my trailer, not feeling very tired at around 10 PM. So I headed out onto highway 99, and drove about 20 miles north and west, to one of the Indian (American Indian) casinos around here. They had slot machines, and table games, but I stick to the slots. I pick either $1 or 0.25 slots, and play the ones on the row ends (due to more people dropping in coins randomly, and boosting the odds for a small jackpot), or slots with multiple pay-lines, or machines that just look good. There were a lot of penny slots there - which I never play, since a 100 coin payout, which is rare, is all of a buck. woo-hoo, not.
I went in with about $150, and was $10 up, after two hours, when I called it quits. My biggest jackpot was $150, for a $5 bet. After I hit one, I leave that machine. They have a cool system for cashing out, since nobody uses real coins anymore - the slot machine prints a bar-coded ticket of your winnings, which you feed into any number of ATM-like devices on the gaming floor, and your cash is dispensed right there - no wait at the cashier. Anyway, the people watching is always fun, and since I am pretty good at staying even or coming out a little ahead, it is a cool experience for a couple of hours.
