34. With Mike Stefanidis - The Dunes, August 15-16, 1992

• Since the guy who was supposed to paint Mike's house didn't show on Saturday, we decided to go to Vegas. We got a flight leaving at 3:30 p.m.

• We had a real hard time getting a room; almost everywhere we went, we caught the pit's attention with the amount of money we were playing with, and you could tell they were more than willing to give us a comped room, but they just didn't have any. Finally, at about 2:00 a.m., the pit at the Dunes said they had a room for us. This after I had gone up to the check-in window and had been told that "the Queen of England couldn't get a room here tonight."

• The pit at the Imperial Palace apologized that they were out of rooms and offered us a free meal at their top-of-the-line steak restaurant. Total comped meal for the two of us: $66.00.

• Well, I learned this trip that I've got to change the way I play craps. Mike and I played at the same tables the whole trip; he won a little bit, I lost a ton.