Another hotel fire last night, this time at the Las Vegas Hilton. You can’t tell me this isn’t related to the one at the MGM last year. I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it’s just a little too coincidental, especially so close together. Either we’ve got a firebug on the strip, or mafia construction just fucking blows… or it’s a combination of both. I can’t believe how lax building codes were when these hotels went up. Still are.

Officials are treating it as definite arson. Apparently, someone, “cut the nozzle off the fire hose in the fire hose cabinet and stuffed combustible material into it.” Pisses me off.

That busboy they arrested, Philip Cline, worked at the MGM in the past, too, so I just feel grody about the whole thing.

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In more positive news, since I turned 21 in January, it’s out of the arcade and onto the floor as a dealer! It helps to be a local kid whose Dad “supplies” many of the high-rollers when they come to town. Well, that and my “how do you know all that?” work on the arcade machines. It helps I catch on to things super quickly. It’ll be the graveyard and swing shifts to start whenever we go back, but that’s ok.