More issues with money

Spending dollars while earning Rands is not the most pleasant thing to do, cos you have very little to begin with and fokol left at the end of the day after food and living expenses.

And yet we are constantly being forced to pay for all these fuck ups that we're experiencing. Like ehen I first arrived, I had 2 boxes of contact lenses zikked from my hotel room, that's 6 months supply!! And then my camera got stolen. And then Sean's car got busted into, and then, and then, and then...

So check this call I apparently made today, a 4 hours plus call costing me 40-something dollars! WTF?! By the way, you pay for incoming calls here, how fucked up is that?! And so I was forced to recharge with another $25!



And if you thought that was bad - Sean went into overdraft on his checking account. And for every transaction he made, he was charged $33! Like his $5 lunch today actually cost him 38 bucks! He owes the bank close on $200 now! This fucking place is FUCKING me off!

UPDATE: Hah! They refunded me. Now I have like $65 credit. And my calls get recharged tomorrow with $70 - that's like $135 of calls for the month! Expect some random calls this weekend boys!

Kanye like to be a gold digger?

Denver is officially the whitest city in the world. After that place in Sweden. I must've been the only wannabe gangsta in the house. Kanye cost me fiddy bucks, which I can't really afford after Vegas and the big weekend. But then again, it's a once in a lifetime chance. And I got free parking (which is normally $7).

So the concert was AWESOME! He played all his good ones from both his old and new albums. Shit, I thought I knew the words to a lot of songs, but these Denver whities can seriously rap!

Some randoms...

How's this for parking outside Tryst - that's my Pontiac on the right. And that's how close I backed it up to the truck behind me, my bumper was actually touching his number plate!


And check this poster in Tryst's bathroom:

News from one fucked up Thanksgiving weekend

And boy was this the most fucked up, longest long weekend ever! The weekend started on Thursday in Vegas, for a couple days of total fucked upness in the world's most insane place.

I got back to Denver on Sat arvi to join the rest of the Safricans for two days of awesome good times, mostly because I was with South Africans.

Saturday, 26 November 2005

Finally... Hooters. For chicken wings. And a good ogle at some quality C-cups and tight buns!


Then it was onto Tryst, a stylish Sudada-styled lounge. And final stop was 5 Degrees, an uber awesome club - finally a place to unleash my Tiger-styled dodginess.

Some intros from left to right, Dale from Diego (there for 2 years), my housemate Sean from Denver (here til Feb), Marianne from Dallas (here 'til Jan - lucky girl) and her visiting sister Andi who flew in from Jozi (using the flight paid for by the SA office) and the Dawg himself.




There are tons more dodgy pics, some not that appropriate to post on a public site like this... maybe I'll mail a couple though!

Sunday, 27 November 2005

We had plans to go skiing but those totally fell through! We were planning to leave at 6.30am for Copper Mountain - a two hour drive - but all five of us overslept. Instead we headed to the foothills to find some snow. All we found was dirty snow, but that still didn't stop of from pelting the chicks... and an iced up river that we were so dof as to walk all over. Then we totally destroyed it by throwing huge rocks through the ice... such random shit!









That must be the most awesome fun-filled weekend ever. No offense guys, but this was truly the most INTERNATIONAL MASHETE DESHTROYER time ever. EVER! Seriously, I got 4-5 hours sleep from Thursday night through to Sunday. By far the blingest, big spending four days of my life - I dropped a grand (that's DOLLARZ) between Vegas and the big jol downtown! Yikes! But all in the name of good times!

I never thought that a couple Safricans, who I didn't really know that well in SA, could be such a blast! Thanks guys, but that was awesome. Believe it or not, I'm quite grumpy that I missed out on two crazy filled days with ya'll when I was in Vegas! 'Til next time? Possibly New York in Feb, but probably San Diego to eat Dale's food and make his bathroom smell like shit (no pun intended).

VEGAS BABY! Whooo!

I flew out to Vegas early on Thanksgiving morning. This place is INSANE! And just like the movies. I've never seen so many tourist - actually, they should call this place Little Asia, man there a lot of Asians here!

But never have I done so much walking, my hotel was all the way on one side, all the cool stuff was on the other side! The Strip is like five kays long! My legs, back and ankles are fucking killing me!

Welcome to Vegas - McCarren Airport - probably the only airport with slot machines in the waiting areas! Las Vegas Boulevard aka "The Strip".


I stayed a quarter mile off The Strip at a dodgy looking, but decent hotel. Then I again, I literally only spent five hours each night there sleeping. And no Vegas experience is complete without having some snaps with Elvis. I just wish I could've been married by him at the Quicki-Wed...


The MGM Grand by day. They have a lion cub enclosure inside which was okay, I suppose. The Fountains of Bellagio, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The fountains shoot about 80m in the air, synch'd to music.


The original Caesars Palace. Where you'll find the legendary Pussycat Dolls Lounge.


For $12 I checked out Madame Tussauds in the Venetian. They have about 120 wax models, some really good, some just crap. The Britney model was fantastic, kapped a feel or two when no one was watching.


Then Vegas by night. This place is totally transformed into sensory overload! I'm amazed I didn't have an epileptic.

New York New York. The entire hotel is a remodel of some of NY's big 'scrapers like the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. The Luxor, complete with Pyramid of Giza and Sphincter.



The Mirage has this display of dolphins, white tigers and white lions of Timbivati.


Okay, I've decided there are too many photos that I want to post, so unlucky! Anyways, quick summary, two and a half days of craziness, visits to all the fancy hotels and casinos, lots of lost dollars paid the many of the casinos, but good times! Tons of entertainment, ending in a visit to The Sapphire - the world's biggest gentlemen's club! For a gentlemen's club there were a lots of girls, 300 to be exact! Oh my God, that was FANTASHTIC and DESHTROYER!!!

UPDATE: Got into The Sapphire VIP! No cover, and straight to the VIP room. Free drinks, belter chicks... such good times. Pity no photos allowed. Almost forgot, thanks to Pimp Dogg for the heads up of what to do!

The Apprentice

Check my office. Okay it's not MY office, but I'm working in it for a while I'm at this client. Nice big conference style desk, wireless network, and most importantly, a view of the snow-capped mountains. One day, this WILL be my office.





Pity 'bout the ugly buildings below though...

Thanksgiving weekend

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Thursday November 24 is Thanksgiving. And Friday is a holiday for us at work, which makes this weekend an extra long weekend.

Thanksgiving is about family. Its about giving thanks to all that you are thankful for. But I got fuck all to be thankful for - I'm a grumpy poes! So I had a toss up between a roasted turkey with my non-family or Vegas. Since I don't have no family anywhere remotely close, I decided on Vegas. VEGAS BABY!

Two nights at the Golden Palms Casino Hotel - sounds fancy, but apparently frikken dodgy. But who cares, it's relatively cheap, and only one block away from the infamous "Strip". The plan? Shopping and site-seeing by day. Gambling and strippers by night.

A couple Safricaners from Dallas and San Diego are staying at our place to go skiing in the mountains. Hopefully I'll hook up with them on Saturday arvi or Sunday morn to hit the slopes. Can't wait.

So who's jealous?

Back to the scene of the crime

Sean's car got broken into outside "The Hoff" last night at about 9pm - "The Hoff" is the local bar. It's just a block away from our apartment. Niiice! It's a rental, so we don't care what happens to these cars! And that we're insured for anything and everything! Or so we thought...

Then it turns out that between Avis and Diners Club, we don't have any insurance for our cars... fuck sakes. Okay, well that's the story at the moment. More enquiries need to be done on Monday in the office.

Sean actually saw the guy leaning inside the car, but the dude bolted as soon as Sean got near. Fucken dodgy neighbourhood we in!!





At least in SA they have the decency to only break the small traingle window at the back.

First snowman in Boulder

Today we had awesome 50F weather (about 10C). No jokes, after last week, it was great weather, warm and sunny. Decisions, decisions... golf? Or build a snowman?

We decide on the latter. We drove up to Boulder which is about 30 miles north of Denver to find us some serious snow to play in. The warm weather melted most of it away during the week, but we managed to find a shady spot next to the river where there was some clean, undisturbed, fluffy stuff.

And this is the snowman we built. We wanted to build a real big boy but the snow was too soft, and we didn't have much time. Not a bad attempt - turned out to be quite a good-looking fellow - all 2 foot, 3 inches of him. And no snowman is complete without a big penis... goes without saying, right?







Next time, I promise we'll build a bigger, better snowman, with an even bigger pie-nis! Promise! Oh, decided to grind the Pontiac a bit with some snow-donuts and drifting. This was the oly one caught on video, a bit tame unfortunately. The others were much more Fast 'n the Furious like. Serious drifting and 180s!