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Great Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic today...

Why did I pay for a college education?

So basically there's no reason to pay for an education anymore, as the good people at Lifehacker show us with the link below. Whatever, it was worth it for being in the Glee Club and going to the football games.

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SBRT Day 23-27: Palm Desert, CA

Palm Desert is about 5 miles from Palm Springs.  How they get any business in Palm Desert when the much more enticing-sounding Palm Springs is right next door is beyond me.  I don’t even know why they put ‘desert’ in the name of their resort city.  Geographically correct, but not great marketing.  Anyway, it worked on us.

So Steve’s little sister is going to come hang with him for a week, while I hang with my brother and my LA friends.  To facilitate this, Steve’s parents rent a 2 BR timeshare in Palm Desert for the two of them.  However, the reservation periods don’t sync up with Steve’s little sister’s spring break, so basically I get to hang at the timeshare until she flies in on Friday.  Steve golfs and plays tennis, I lay around and go swimming in the pool; we’re in overlapping but strikingly different heavens.  We go on a hike on our last day, and it’s quite desert-y.  If you’re looking for a good hike, I recommend Boulder over Palm Desert, easy. 

When Steve drives to LA, trading me for his little sister, I’m certain that he’s happy with the trade, and I’m ready to get back to the cyclical adventure of drinking, recovering, and getting prettied up to go drink again.

SBRT Day 21-23: Orange County, CA

When we head into the LA area, we know we’re in for some drama.  First off, LA is probably the drama capitol of the world—both in terms of onscreen acting and real life girls that love making something out of nothing.  On top of that, both Steve and I have a…history with the girl that we’re staying with.  So when we arrive and she immediately warns us that the night will be filled with drama, we’re not surprised.  Diane, you are the queen of drama.  We kill a 20 pack at a friend’s BBQ then head out to a bar called the Blue Beet, and the night lives up to its expectations.  I’m really not ready to go into the specifics, but its another fun one for when we speak in person. 

The next day, Steve and I drive up to the Paramount Studios lot to visit my brother Trav who is working on-set at American Idol.  We get to walk around a little, but Trav is nervous about his multiple bosses getting pissy, so we stealthily make our way out.  On the way back to the OC, we stop for dinner with Steve’s old roommate for dinner in my old stomping grounds of Hermosa Beach.  As we wait for our pizza at the Hermosa Beach Pier, a teenage girl offers to make out with us for 75 cents.  I don’t miss Hermosa Beach too much.  We head to an Irish pub with too-loud live music and sit outside sipping beers, and I catch up with a college friend who I find out is working as a singer and making her first album!  In LA, everybody is famous.  Well, all my friends anyway.

SBRT Day 19-21: Las Vegas, NV

Vegas, baby, Vegas!  The drive from Parshall to Vegas takes 13 hours and results in a mile difference in elevation and about 50 degrees difference in temperature.  On our way to our friend Sarah’s place, we pick up a couple Little Caesar’s pizzas, which Steve has been pining for the whole trip.  We stay in that night, eating pizza and playing drinking Jenga, which for the drinking layman is normal Jenga with things to do written on each block, usually having to do with drinking. This version was made specifically harsh by Sarah’s friend, having blocks like “Give 20 Drinks”.  Sarah had a tough time getting up for work the next morning. 

While she worked, we hit the casinos.  After a few poker rooms with waiting lists, Steve sits down for some Texas Hold ‘Em at Planet Hollywood.  After getting up about $40, he goes all-in pre-flop with pocket Aces.  The other guy calls with pocket Jacks, and wins with a Jack on the turn.  Steve is downtrodden, but we get some Chinese which seems to help. 

We hit some penny video poker, enjoying a few free drinks, until Sarah gets out of work.  Then we go to one of the shadier casinos, Casino Royale, because we want to play Craps, and they have the lowest minimum buy-in tables at $3.  Steve shows us how to play, and I jump in after a few rolls.  We waver around our initial investments for a while, waiting for our turn to roll the dice before we go grab some dinner.  Steve gets the dice first and goes on a TEAR.  I make about $50 on the rolls that he makes.  Then when it’s my turn I do alright as well, and we walk away from the table about $100 richer between the two of us.  Riding high from our big wins, we meet Sarah’s friend Marisol at another casino by Sarah’s apartment.  We spend the rest of the night playing cheap video poker and getting free drinks.  Vegas is sweet. 

Now we’re blazing across the desert to a barbeque at Diane’s friend's place on the south side of LA.  At this point we’ve driven more than 4500 miles, and we’re finally going to be able to say we have driven across the country.  Exciting stuff.

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