B365V2.5 - Conspired against me

     Late in December I got my mailings from the Rivers Casino.  Now honestly I hadn't been here since before Ed left, my last trip to the casino was the night I went over for the Pennsylvania Lottery shindig and Ed and I had dinner at the buffet afterward.  I went on to win some money that night, but I am not one who thinks that ay time I go to the casino I am going to earn all kinds of cash, if I go there I expect to lose more often than not, so I don't take any money that I can't afford to lose. 

    Usually when I go it is because they are giving away a certain amount in free slot play, or there is some other special event going on that has my attention.  In November and December they really didn't have anything so I just didn't go.  But late last month they sent me the promotion book for January and again they were giving away at least $50 in free slot play each week, $25 for the week automatically and an additional amount of at least $25 that they sent out in a pull tab promotion for Fridays. Also the buffet price had dropped $5, it is now only $14.99 plus I get a 5% discount with my membership card, so they did have some hooks to get me in the door so to speak. 

     I went there last Friday thinking I would just go blow off the free slot play they were giving me and if I did okay with it, probably buy my bus pass for the coming week.  I know, I have such small aspirations in life. So I get there, the weekly bonus is automatically loaded to my card, the pull tab promotion I have to go to a service desk where they will take care of it for me.  They asked for my card and my ID, I handed them both and they said they couldn't take my ID, it had expired.  See, since all I have is a state photo ID and not a drivers license I pretty much don't pay attention to the expiration date on it, turns out mine expired in November and that was reason enough to deny me the promotion, even though I still look like the guy on the ID and I did have the casino card as well, that was apparently not proof enough that I yam what I yam.

     Fine, no big thing, I went and spent the $25 promotion that was on my card, played a little with my own money and then came home.

    Meanwhile back at the ranch, I noticed last week that one of my favorite bands, Motion City Soundtrack, was coming to Pittsburgh.  For the life of me I do not know how poplar they are here, they receive pretty much no airplay on any of the local stations, so I figured that I would wait until payday and then go online, buy tickets and maybe, after securing my coolness, spend the evening at the casino having the buffet for dinner and spending the $25 of promotional money that was on my card.  I get off of work today, go looking in my wallet so I can hop the subway over to the casino and my casino membership card is gone.  I am 99% positive that I left it there last week, still in the machine I was playing.  So there goes the other free money I could have played with (I did file for a new state ID but I haven't gotten paperwork back on that yet) nor would I get my additional discount at the buffet. 

     I try to tell myself that the glass is still half full, I don't need to be wasting money anyway if I am wanting to go to a concert next Saturday night.  Speaking of which, I better get my ass home from work so I can hop online and buy my ticket.  Our paychecks from work, even though we get them early, are dated for Thursday so my bank does not make the money available until the date on the actual check, so I couldn't buy the ticket early.  Again, I would much rather have just paid cash in the first place, but the only way to order tickets that I saw was online, so it was going to be the debit card route for me.  Except when I went on the band's site I found out that the Pittsburgh date on the tour was sold out.  Mind you there are seats available in Columbus and Cleveland and Detroit, just not here.  Fuck me, bend me over and fuck me.

      I thin at this point in time I am just going to bury myself under blankets and not come out for a week.