Las Vegas on a Friday night

here are some images from my Friday evening in Las Vegas.  it took awhile but i did find some "live music" finally at Harrah's and O'Sheas Casino. from my hotel (not on The Strip) a nice co-worker and i  walked to and thru Bally's into Paris. Cindy (my co-worker who incidentally had the same last name as mine but no relation) was looking for some place to eat.  i was looking for "live music".  she left me to find dinner and i continued to and over "The Strip" to Bellagio.  in Bellagio i listened to the pianist in the lobby for one song before he went on break.  and then i walked into the beautiful Conservatory and Botanical Gardens which included a nice butterfly house.  i walked back outside as night was falling to watch the dancing waters show. . . something by Sinatra. and then i walked back thru Bellagio and across the pedestrian overpass to Ceasar's Palace.  no live music in Ceasar's.  from there i crossed the street to Harrah's where i listened to The Twins until about midnite.

      

and finally around 1230am i found a live band at the Dublin' Up Lounge at O'Sheas Casino. i listened for about an hour to this very entertaining band before walking back to my hotel around 2am.

world's tallest chocolate fountain

diagnosis: acute infectious bronchitis

yes, that is what i was told by my friendly, informative and Mike Ditka-looking nurse practitioner...yes, my nurse was a guy...don't be stereotyping my nurse thinking my nurse was a female that looked like the former football player/coach for the Chicago Bears.  i am now on day 3 of my antibiotics and assorted other medicines for my cough, fever, running nose (smelly feet).  i do feel much better, thanks for asking but... i will not be leaving for Japan tomorrow which means... no Takatsuki Jazz Festival.  no Fried Pride on saturday afternoon in the main concert hall next to the temple next to the big park on the grounds of a former castle. no SpitFunkunder the Hankyu Takatsuki train station.  no SharpHerd Big Band. no shamisen jazz by Keisho Ohno.

if, if, if i feel 100 percent better, i may try to leave on friday to catch the last day of the festival.  more than likely i will stay home or close to home and rest.  Justo Almario is playing at LACMA on friday night.  and there should be some kind of Cinco de Mayo event this weekend even though it is only the Tres and Cuatro de Mayo.  Noriko has two much-sought-after tickets to see her beloved Kobukuro (see March 14th posting) on the 14th so i would like to accompany her to that sure-to-be excellent/brilliant/memorable concert at Osaka-jo Hall which is next to Osaka-jo (castle).

officially i do not have to work until the 17th of May but that may change to the 19th.  

so where i have been since my last post...Philadelphia, back to LA, Philadelphia (slept in airport crew room), Las vegas, Philadelphia (once again slept in crew room) and back home to LA on monday the 28th.  i walked to the clinic on monday after a long night and flight home...my cough actually caused a passenger to move to another seat.  and since being told that my cough that if you remember starting way back on the 9th of April (check April 11th post) was not just a simple cough, i have been trying to stay inside.  today i ventured out to walk a few errands...dry cleaning, market, post office and haircut.  now i will be content to watch the Celtics and Hawks at The Garden in game 5 on tv.  and update my blog.  i will find some photos to add later.  i still have hundreds and hundreds of photos that i would like to share from Japan.  and i have some new nice ones from the Chester, PA area and from Las Vegas.

time to say goodbye to April, my cough and...

(if you make it all the way thru the video clip, try to listen to the comments of a guy standing near but not too near to me... kind of funny).