Reno New Year's Eve

[kevin_standlee]

I had a promotional offer from Cost Plus World Market we wanted to use before it expired at the end of the year, so we went into Reno after I got done with Day Jobbe this afternoon. We also made one last try to get some of the good Strauss Creamery eggnog from Whole Foods Market, but that failed. We then went to the Atlantis, where their NYE Buffet was bustling, but the wait wasn't too awful long for a group of 2. (The big groups had to wait much longer.) I'm afraid the special buffet is wasted somewhat on us — among other things, we don't drink, so the included champagne was useless. I was a bit amused at the people who built huge mountains of crab legs on their plates. "Do they not know they're allowed to come back for seconds?" I speculated.

travelswithkuma had his Keno Bear hat on tonight, and the $10 ticket won $20 and therefore paid for the tip to the keno runner and the waitress.

Instead of staying in Reno for NYE festivities, we decided to go home early. We didn't even go grocery shopping, being too tired for it. We're home now and 2015 in the Pacific Time Zone can arrive without our help.

Comments

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

As someone who likes to eat crab, and doesn't get to so much due to location (Denver), I totally can understand the warm and fuzzy feeling from piling a ton of crab legs on your plate.

It's like buying a pile of books at Worldcon all at once, even though you could get them individually at local stores or amazon over time - it feels good to have an armful of books to snuggle. :)

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Well, I can understand that. Lisa likes crab as well, and I do as well, although I can do without the challenge of getting at the crab-meat. But you can always go back to the buffet. But I'm somewhat jaded, in that I've been to that buffet so many times that I know its layout intimately, so going up several times with somewhat smaller helpings is my SOP.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

OryCon had a dealer, right at the entry to the dealers' room, who was selling old SF paperbacks for a buck a book. This was well into the impulse purchase range and I brought home quite a pile. That was two months ago and I haven't read them all yet - actually, now that I check, I haven't even unpacked all of them yet; there are still paperbacks in my luggage!