So I haven’t been around for a couple of days because The Girlfriend™ and I packed up and left town — went to Las Vegas for a few days.  We stayed in Luxor, which seemed pretty decent except for the fact that the air conditioning didn’t seem to be working, which, I’m told, is a common complaint there these days… not sure if it’s an issue because they’re working on the building or because it’s an effing black pyramid in the middle of the desert.  But we were definitely running around Vegas a fair amount, and we saw Spamalot (which was hilarious) and Love (which was incredible albeit a little busy).  One of the best exchanges of the weekend came from Spamalot:  “Why didn’t you tell me you were a Jew?” “Well, it’s not really something you tell a heavily armed Christian....” Oddly enough, as I write this, a commercial for Mandalay Bay, which is next door to the Luxor, is playing on TV.

They say that Americans are overworked, overstressed about work and desperately in need of taking the time off that they don’t use.  For me, it was the first time in 2 years that I took a week off from work, and that’s only because it got to the point where I had maxed out the time I could accrue — and that’s not something I’m trying to brag about.  Hopefully, I won’t feel so reticent about taking time off in the future, since, despite the fact that I had my moments of thinking about work, I still feel a hell of a lot better having taken this past week off and getting away.

Pictures, naturally, are here.