Just returned from a quick (one night) trip back to Vegas for a business-type meeting. In the baggage claim area at McCarren Airport, there's a monitor that's supposed to show you which carousel your Samsonite might be showing up on. Instead, it had the "blue screen of death" which every Windows user knows as the sign that your system's gone kablooey. What is it about Vegas and Windows error messages?
Had a beautiful room at the relatively-new (and quite beautiful) Mandalay Bay resort. It would have been the nicest non-suite hotel room I ever had in Vegas, had the mattress not had the consistency of one of Fred Flintstone's tires. I didn't take a computer on this jaunt, not even my little palmtop Jornada — first time I've gone 24 hours without touching a computer since I got my first, steam-powered laptop back in the Mesozoic Era. I almost went through withdrawal and started wondering if they have some kind of patch you can wear to break the addiction.