** If the mods want to merge this into the now locked "$900 or bust" thread I'll understand, otherwise did not know where else to put, other than creating another thread.**

For about the last month an a half I've been wrapped up in my new job with an outreach program and have stopped playing poker completely, although still in Las Vegas. I've started some online classes with a goal of gaining an education in social work/sociology. Witnessing the homeless problem here in Vegas inspired me a great deal and becoming aware of the amount of Veterans that make up a percentage of that population has led me to my new goals. Not sure if it will last, I hope so, seems a natural fit and I'm enjoying it, despite some very real frustrations.

The other thing thats kept me away is a recent surgery to take out my appendix. That was an experience and am still recovering from it.

Anyways, I wont be updating this with any tales and if anyone wants to read the long drawn out version of what turned out to be an extended trip report click here.

If you don't want that thread relegated to the archives, bump it before the end of the month.

Congrats for missing the first line of OP:

"If the mods want to merge this into the now locked..."

Dont mind Billy... reading comprehension has never been his strong suit.

All he has to do to bump it is ask a mod to unlock it. Standard practice this month.