There’s just no end to internet- and phone-based scams these days.  This article describes a new method called “vishing” where the criminals call folks on their voice-over-ip phones (Vonage / Comcast / Skype /et al) and prompt the user to “call back” a toll-free number because of a problem with their credit card / bank [...]

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Just returned from Vegas!  Saw the Bette Midler show and she was in fine form!

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Stanley Hotel, originally uploaded by Paul Myrick. Copyright © 2008 Paul Myrick, All Rights Reserved.

Located in Estes Park, Colorado – reportedly haunted; also noted as the inspiration for Steven King’s The Shining. Holga imagery.

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We traveled to Breckenridge, Colorado for a quick get-away on Superbowl weekend.  Here’s what we found:

Beautiful, stunning mountain scenery
Mediocre to bad, expensive food (think $8 tuna sandwich and $25 dinner entrees served with paper napkins and placemats)
Terrible customer service (hotel and all restaurants/cafes)
Dive bars
Rowdy, drunk college students
Lots of vehicular traffic on all of the streets (with speedy [...]

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Ashley Wilkes Cocktail In Vegas, originally uploaded by Paul Myrick.
Sent from my iPhone.  Wow!  I figured out [...]

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Here we are at The Four Seasons in Vegas a couple of days ago – going to see The Beatles “Love” show by Cirque de Soleil.  Yes, I’m posting photos out of order here.  And this is a really bad photo because I took it in the hall mirror and we were in a hurry.  I’m on [...]

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Let me sum it up in just a few words:  Lunch good; dinner bad!
We had lunch at sensi in Bellagio right after we arrived since our room wasn’t going to be ready for several hours.  The place looks fantastic with all interior finishes being organic (stone, wood, bamboo, water, glass).  I say water because some [...]

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Power Generators @ Hoover Dam, originally uploaded by Paul Myrick.
We toured Hoover Dam today. What an incredible structure! Here’s a photo of some [...]

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We’re in Las Vegas, staying at the Four Seasons (the top four or five floors of the Mandalay Bay Hotel) for a few days.  Then, we move to Bellagio for another couple of days before heading back to Atlanta.  Last evening, we dined at David Burke in the Venetian Hotel.  Tonight, we will see “Love” [...]

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Apparently, bartenders in Denver don’t know how to cut a lemon twist for a martini.  Maybe I’ll just ask them to give me a lemon and a knife and do it myself …
Note the raggedy lemon pulp on the “twist” on the left I received at the Hotel Teatro bar.

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