Losing Everything

I took Friday off from work to spend some quality time with the QE. We did a day trip to Atlantic City. The drive wasn't too bad. Parked at the Taj Mahal. $10 for parking because we didn't have their stupid club card prior to entering. I would have pimped out my info and gotten a card once we arrived, but nooooo....Trump's other casino allowed us to show the card and pay upon exit. No wonder that ass is a gazillionaire. We spent the whole day at Taj. I wouldn't say NEVER again, but ACY is like the Wal-Mart of casinos--I'd rather not go. It was smelly, smoky, and full of old people, many with canes, walkers, wheelchairs, a few oxygen tanks. Good to know our Medicare checks are being put to good use. Now I know why I get taxed on my hard earned dollars--so these crusty old people can gamble it all away.
We ate at Hard Rock Cafe. Service was good but the food was only ok. In all, I lost $80. QE won $50+ on $10. $80 doesn't sound like a lot, but that tightwad Trump did not let me win very frequently. I don't need to profit from the trip, but one "win" every 20 slot pulls would have been enough positive reinforcement for me to keep playing. I lost $20 in about 20 minutes. On the penny slots. Betting $.03 per pull. That's ridiculous.

I went to Jenny's baby shower on Saturday. I have never seen so many kids in one place. WTF. What's with these kid factories???? I befriended twin one-year old girls. They both took a liking to me. As I was ready to leave, she wanted me to hold her, so I did. I tried to explain I needed to go bye-bye and she responded by plopping her head on my shoulder and snuggling into me. Speaking to kids is very similar to speaking to cats. That cutesy wootsey voice is what gets their attention. So these girls are one-year old. And became a big sister that very morning. Mom gave birth to another baby girl. So she now has twin babies AND a newborn. That husband should pay for doing that to the poor woman! Jenny made out with lots of loot. The baby can go at least a few months of wearing new clothes without ever duplicating outfits.

The highlight of our weekend was our hard drive frying. I turned on the computer to get directions to Jenny's shower and it wouldn't boot. Tried five times. QE used the recovery disks and had to reinstall Office, our internet SW and everything else. He lost all of his school work. And we lost all of our digital pictures. In addition to cat pics (which didn't bother me too much since we can always take more pics of our cuties), we lost our house photos. All the weekly trips and pictures of our house as it was getting built is gone. I have some of the nicer pics in Yahoo and Flickr, but I lost at least half of my pics. And the ones published aren't the full sized pics. We are very upset about losing our photos.