Iraq is still screwed. We're still all being slowly cooked like lobsters in a big pot of global warming, I think. The new Nintendo is making people enjoy playing like kids again and taking the focus off of technology. This is smart.
Speaking of kids, due to a severe lack of family, Nat and I went to Vegas for American Thanksgiving and didn't eat any turkey. We stayed at the Mirage and I pre-bought "best in house" tickets to the Love show. In case you haven't heard of it, it's the Cirque De Soleil show inspired by the Beatles and their music.
But before the show we had a day or so to gamble away all our money. I know they say that blackjack is the closest you can get to 50/50 odds, with the house slightly in favour, but this time it seemed more like 10/90.To recoup some of our losses, we participated in one of those timeshare "presentations" where they drill you for 2 hours on how good vacations are for your health etc and that you should really really buy into their garbaggio. And if you get through the 2 hours without being suckered in, you get $100 bucks for coming and are sent on your merry way. As some of you may know, I exhibit extreme cynicism in a sales situation. This is because I've learned some of the tricks of the trade and have to bristle when I see them used on me. Natalie is less experienced in these matters especially when it comes to dealing with high-pressure salesmen. Anyway, to make a long story short, the salesman got annoyed with me and called me a cynic, asking "How do you get up in the morning?". I wondered the same thing about him.
We gambled and ate away most of the 100 we earned by sitting through that ordeal, but hell, it was worth it. Afterwards, we dressed up and went to the show.
I had never seen a Cirque show live before and I don't know if they're all this good, but this one was absolutely amazing. It killed me that they didn't permit any picture taking whatsoever because every element was just spectacular. I can't use enough adjectives to describe how much it floored me. Here was something real and beautiful, and it bypassed all of my cynicism and activated the core of my wonderment. Truth be told, the guy's comment about me being a cynic struck a nerve and it was on my mind until I sat in the show awestruck. It was then I realized that I have an unlimited wellspring of optimism just waiting to be activated by the beauty the the universe conspires to create.Slept like a baby.
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Anyone who makes pocrazos cannot rightly be called a cynic.
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