Poolside

Sorry about not posting on here for a few days. Sunday we were both working, Monday we got very drunk, and Tuesday we got very hungover, so not much time for blogging.

Sunday was work day, since I have to work two Sundays a month, and there's no way in hell I'm working the day after St. Patrick's Day. Work continues to be challenging. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but my phone calls have all ended in the person on the other end of the line not giving me their damn money. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm calling mainly 95 year olds from poor rural Pennsylvania, but that doesn't seem to be a hindrance for anyone else. Oh well. I get paid whether I'm making successful calls or not, and I have at least two more weeks of total failure before they decide to fire me. So we'll see.

Monday was a bit more pleasant, as Pam and I had our first pool day. What a beautiful day it was.

The pool area is pretty nice, isn't it? It's weird because we've been pretty much the only ones out here whenever we come out. I'm not sure if this is because it's still March and 70 degrees is considered "cold" to Nevada natives, or people just don't go to the pool at The Can. I guess time will tell on that one. There was a couple there when we showed up Monday morning, but I think they saw a young couple with a cooler of beer and thought it'd be better to get out of there. Hmm.

Nice set up, right? We had our iPod set up for some Springsteen tunes (not too early for the songs of summer with weather like this), and a cooler full of what seems to be THE cheap Mexican beer around these parts - Tecate. Cold, crisp, refreshing with a lime.

We had a great afternoon. At one point we were sitting with our feet in the pool, and I, as I am wont to do, started joking around like I was going to push Pam in. I'm surprised it took her this long to threaten to send me back to Philadelphia.

What a beauty.

What the opposite of beauty.

As nice as the weather was, it still got a little chilly at points during the day when the sun went behind the cloud. I said it before and I'll say it again, the sun makes or break the weather here. With the sun, it's too hot. Without the sun, it's too cold. And there's only so many times you can hop in and out of the hot tub.

So with the sun dipping behind the clouds yet again, we called it an end to our pool day, already a little tipsy. Life is good when you can do all this on a Monday, isn't it?

The party continued up to our room, where we finished most of the rest of the Tecate, ah that sweet Mexican elixir of life, and made some tomato and onion omelets. The night was still young, so we headed to our neighborhood bar, the Double Down. I love that place. Pam finally tried the Ass Juice, and she was just as perplexed as I was about the taste of it. I still think it tastes like grapefruit. Pam thinks it tastes like they took all the leftover alcohol at the end of the night and mixed it together. Whatever is in it, it certainly didn't make me any better at billiards - Pam killed me both games.

And hey, look, we have friends! Actually, it was someone from the university near us that I had met on Friday. We got drunk together, I'm not sure if you can tell from the above picture or not. That was sarcasm.

The Double Down was cool, but we wanted to explore a bit, so we ended up at the Hard Rock Hotel just down the street. And guess what I found.

Yes, folks, it's the pool that I got lost at a few weeks ago. And I think I was a little drunker that time I was here, because there's literally a door right from the main lobby that leads to the pool. I'm an idiot.

It's creep as hell though, isn't it? Imagine being lost here for what seemed like an hour.

Anyways, that was our day. It was good times. Tuesday, yesterday, was not quite as fun. Advil was on the menu for breakfast. Pam wasn't hungover though. She just had a headache. And a stomach ache. And she was tired. But she wasn't hungover.

We're both working today and tomorrow, unfortunately, but then we have an awesome four day weekend to look forward to, one that includes St. Patrick's Day and my Pammy's birthday. More adventures to come!