I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line, I caught something and I’ve been home sick for the last two days. I do not get sick very often, so needless to say this doesn’t please me in the least bit, but there’s nothing I can really do about it. However, it’s given me a little bit of extra time to catch up on processing some of the photos I took while out in Vegas, as well as some time to do some writing.
It’s been like two years since I was in Vegas last, and it’s safe to say that there have been quite some numerous changes since then. One of the conversations had during the trip was about how Vegas was obviously one of the larger casualties of the last economic massacre, and it’s in little things that I think I notice that such an assessment is true. A few years ago, casinos were extremely generous with coupon books boasting all sorts of match-play tickets, buy-one-get-one tickets, and other offers to stimulate parting money from your hand to the hands of the casinos. Typically, these were given upon check in to hotels, or upon registering with a different player’s reward program.
Two years of inactivity and returning to Vegas used to warrant some sort of offers to help make up for money of mine they haven’t been getting but neither redeeming new cards, or checking into the hotel prompted any sort of offers of sort. To me, it’s not a big deal, since I hardly used anything other than BOGO drinks, but the lack of offers wasn’t lost on me either.
