Suitedjustice's Ongoing Mid-life Crisis

I'm 20 minutes into Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain movie from 1973, and I've finally found something more trippy than the Monkees' Head movie, which is saying a lot.

It's like, yes, I've done acid too, good job making it into a movie. So we have a mostly nonverbal autistic Jesus heavily tripping and probably dehydrated, navigating through a fascist regime's highly figurative, rotely sexualized biblical scenarios. Don't watch if you're a frog lover.

Edit: Now I'm 30 minutes in and my "Oh, come on!" meter is at 20+. There's poop, and holy alchemy involving poop.

Imagine if he made Dune!

Looks great. I read somewhere that no budget at the time could keep up with his visionn for this. Nowadays, with CGI, it could be done.

Of course, you can't get David Carradine, Orsen Welles or Dali any more. And Jodorowsky is 97.

I forgot my SPF 70 today and was outside all day on this final leg of the working man's job, and I'm as red as an overcooked Maine lobster. Several applications of aloe have made it so that it doesn't hurt horribly, but I imagine there will be a lot of skin peeling in my future.

I stopped at MGM on the way home and walked the slots, and came up with $77 in 1.5 hours. Tomorrow I'm taking the day off, as I'll be filling in at the old office all week.

Workworkwork. I'm tired of it all ready.

You must watch that documentary at some point. It's crazy how many influences this never-made movie had. For starters, it's responsible for H.R. Giger designing the Alien!

It's on the list.

Filling in at the office this week. Cat-like typing imminent.

Agree. This is a great documentary. If you can see it in revival on a big screen, that would be good.

I should note that I liked the David Lynch Dune, and I think I'm the only one I know who did - so I do have weird tastes in movies.

Watched it in full for the first time last year, before I always rage quit it at like 30 mins in tops, mostly at airplanes. When I watched it in full I actually kinda liked it too, but yep it's not great by any commonly accepted standards. You're probably aware what Lynch himself said about it later.

I think Garfi the Angry Cat and Lulu the Office Cat would get along fine.

That is a Tervis tumbler. They tend to turn brown and uncleanable if you drink coffee in them for long enough, which is always for me.

I like the Lynch Dune. I especially like the Baron. Lynch enjoys not explaining anything to the audience. His attitude is: either you look up the source material or you make up your own, I'm not doing any exposition for you. Just images and feelings and surrealness, let's go. I've read the Dune books several times, so I think that helps.

Two more hours of slots after yesterday's office day netted $37. I'm going to stick with just slots for the moonlighting this week, given their low impact on my tired brain.

I didn't moonlight at the casino tonight because I'm tired and I need some sleep.

I'm now 40% of the way through the work week, and I feel like a guy who holds 40% of a royal flush. There's some hope, but I have a long way to go.

The stress is ramping up at the office as big money discount and refund requests beyond my paygrade continue to mount, and the customers behind them are getting antsy, and rightfully so.

Americans have little respect for vacations; they want the absent person contacted at their tropical retreat during their mojito-sipping time and they want answers from them. As with many things, we should be more like the Euros: Sorry, so-and-so's out for the next 5 weeks, call them when they return. Don't bother sending an email, they're not going to look at the backlog.

Hitting the casino afterwards was a relief from the stress. Working at the office always gives me a fresh appreciation for my actual job; however, this time I didn't find many slot plays over 2 hours, so a small win of $23 was a boon.

Two more days...

I know it sucks, but what can you do? Gotta make that money.

That meme may make Morph mad.

I've been drinking coffee from my Tervis for 50 years. I have a special bottle brush I use to clean it. I'll spend no more than five minutes a month cleaning house and doing dishes, but I'll happily dedicate hours to keeping my Tervis Tumbler in tip-top shape. This goes a long way towards explaining why I never remain married for extended periods.

It's all good! 😀

I figured. It was just a good M barrage, so I went with it.

No casino tonight. I'll go tomorrow to celebrate my last day at the ****ing day job.

Had a meeting today that’s 20 min from my favorite local. Haven’t been in months. Holy ****ing **** like 80% of the few progressive state machines have been swapped out. I couldn’t have timed my exit more perfectly

I shouldn't use the term uncleanable. Most things can be cleaned with the right tools and enough elbow grease. This includes consciences.

This has all happened before. It's why I have to keep working on my poker game.

This time around the purge seems to be for mostly bad machines, so I’m OK with it. I had 8 Luckymons in one of my casinos, that was just stupid. All these constant machine resets are more troubling though.

I don’t know why these casinos are sweating these vulture machines so much, I’ve found more high limit plays this year than I ever have before (with less machines to check). It’s clear that plops have been playing bigger after the tax law and are getting crushed, the casinos should be happy that they are getting more high limit action, not looking for ways to scare off customers.

I've seen the theory that casino slot managers tolerate vultures because we're good for coin-in numbers, which is a performance evaluatuon figure for them.

Think about the coin-in of an AP fast spinning Hexbreak3r at $8/spin for 6 hours trying to pop the center column. If you can get a spin every 2 seconds, that's $86000 put into play. And the machine is still making money over the long run.

APs should make no difference to the performance of any given slot machine other than increasing volume anyway, isn't it? And decreasing the chances of those who don't know what they're doing, cos they are more likely to find a machine in an empty state.
Assuming you have the machine continuously running and there's no reset at any time of the day or week or something then the whole thing should be in equilibrium, mathematically speaking, and just those who come early and leave before any significant bonuses are hit are paying for the later ones who only start playing when the slot is +EV or something.
But don't know a lot about that, not sure if that is correct.