Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Birthday gambling money and a snake

My birthday celebration continues. Earlier in the month, I got my free $20 credit to gamble at the faux casino, which I had to do before the end of May. If you remember last year during my birthday month I managed to turn my $20 free gambling credit into a free $28.95 in cold hard cash.

Well this year I think they changed it. You had to actually gamble your $20 in credits before you could cash out any winnings. I don't think I had to do that last year because I remember after getting the $20 credit ok'ed and showing my ID etc, the attendant asked me what machine I wanted to play and she inserted $20 in cash.

But today after getting the birthday credit ok'd, I was given a $20 promo ticket to put into the machine and it wouldn't cash out until I used all of my initial $20.

Long story short, I still walked out with $14.90 in winnings so I am happy.

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Oh and here is a snake that was in my yard yesterday.



I had just finished a trek through the jungle-y part of the yard, knocking down some wild ugly stick trees with sharp points on it when I saw this guy. Needless to say, I was done walking thru our rendition of jungleland.

4 comments:

Shey said...

Yikes! that's scary how big was it? Better have those wild tress and weeds or she won't be the only one. Love your blog queen ;)

Chris the Yardsale Queen said...

Maryland has copperhead snakes - which are poisonous - I am glad this wasn't a copperhead. I think it was about 3' long. But of course I wasn't about to get out a measuring tape and stretch it out!

Anonymous said...

I would have freaked if I would have seen a 3' long snake in my yard....SusanC.

Anonymous said...

I completely and totally agree with Susan C. We have those little garter snakes here and I'm ready to sell the house anytime I see one. A three foot snake. Oh my stars. :)