RV'ing: 10-08-08 Wednesday (I Want an Elephant for Christmas)

In an unemployed atmosphere, almost everyday can be classified as a lazy day. Compared to our typical days, this day was bottom of the barrel. We had plans to see some more ruins, but it just never happened. Jim and I almost seem to wait out each other for showering. He didn't budge, nor did I. It's pretty humorous, thinking back to it now. At some point, I made the bed, put away clean clothes and took out a pair of underwear. At some point, he slipped some clothes on the bed, as if to stake claim to the shower. No one ventured into the shower. One would have thought the shower would spit spikes out or something.

Noon rolled around, the cricket noises from the shower grew louder. Jim joked, "I feel like taking a nap." I replied, "Go ahead, we still have another full day here." As he took me up on my approval of the proposed nap, I asked if there was a time to wake him up. He said no, and retreated to the bedroom.

This RV park has free cable. Compared to other RV parks, this seems to be rare. We never bothered to hook it up, and to be honest, we haven't watched TV in so long, I don't even miss it. I miss the shows we were following but I know eventually we'll catch up via on-line, Amazon Unbox, Tivo, or DVD collection through Netflix. Last night we watched a movie (Timeline) we had from Netflix, but if you look back through the Blog, I think we've watched a total of 3. With the Internet, there's so much brainless web surfing to do. Oh sure, there's things I could do, like scrub a toilet or something. Maybe I could index the campsite pebbles. Perhaps that's best left for a day when I'm bored and without TV or Internet. I quickly dismissed all projects along those lines as "too noisy", Jim is napping. I'm such a nice guy, what can I say?

That "Not so fresh feeling" combined with a sense of adventure led me to take a shower at 3pm. I had found, there were no "spitting spikes" or anything else horrible about the shower. I no longer count the lack of room, the having to take the shower head down off it's mount to rinse the nether regions. Those don't count anymore. They've become part of life.

Wow, this is almost pitiful. It's like I'm sitting here waiting to report the next boring event. Well, I guess it's back to surfing the net, although I could scrub the toilet... Jim is awake. Nah, it's too late for that now. I don't like to do that kinda stuff after 3pm. After 3pm, nothing will look clean.

Oooooo, something to report. I decided to smoke a cigarette, and invited Jim to join me on the Veranda (Yeah OK, carpeted gravel... picky, picky) to discuss what else we're not going to do today. He had suggested that tonight we go to a local casino, Sunray. I'm not interested unless there's nickel slots and maybe a Vegas style buffet or something. Off to Internet research I go. No buffet. Prime Rib specials "while they last" which usually means they don't have any. We'll see.

We decided to eat at home, then to Petco, then K-Mart (Shhhhhh, don't tell Wal-Mart, I was confused about the "marts") and then to the casino. Our first impressions were far from spectacular (see photos at end), especially after talking to Pearl this evening. She warned me of the probable disappointment. It was no Vegas, but wasn't too bad. I'm not saying it was good, just not too bad. We found the nickel machines, blew some money and finally made it to some penny machines where we did pretty well. We walked out of there with $8 more than we went in with, so 2 hours of entertainment and profiting $8 isn't so bad.