That's Just Rubbish.

Sunday mornings!

Ah.. a nice cup of coffee...

Good Morning Rachael!

The Sunday paper!

 And a trip to The Dump.

What? The dump on Sunday? This is Vegas, everything is open.

Except the City landfill isn't a landfill and it isn't out in the open.

Our dump in is the city limits...

It's indoors...

My day is ruined... I should have gone to church.

I left my shoes in the pile of yard debris.... the stench is still in my nose!

 Right next to a Jr High School... 

'What's for lunch?  Oh fuck it, stinks too much to eat....'   No wonder we have the lowest graduation rate in the country.

On the bright side, it's free to take your trash to the 'Transfer Station', 

I'm off to take my decontamination shower now..

It's spooky and a little creepy.

Lake Mead, the largest man made lake in the country...
Full of boating fun.. Home of the Hoover Dam... Set in the middle of the desert.

Not the prettiest lake out there.

But beware! This place is jinxed.. The Vegas area likes to keep that part a secret.

First thing you notice as you drive up the back way, is the huge amount of road side crosses.

So many tacky crosses.

Just this morning the roads claimed the life of another young man.

People die when they go to Lake Mead National Park. 

All summer long drowning were reported...

Yet folks still go out every weekend, thinking they don't need no stupid life jacket.

I say just put the damn thing on and live to tell the tale of what a wimp you are.

See? Not sexy with or without it! 

If the reckless driving on the roads and the lakes spooky vortex don't grab ya... Strip club owners will..

LAKE MEAD SHOOTING: Four charged with slaying

Palomino Club owner's daughter, son accused of hiring hit men

Yesterday as we were exploring, both Chell and I decided, Lake Mead is creepy, and better left to the tourists.

Welcome to Hell I say.

It's hot and stinky.... yet fascinating.. oh Hell, I know we will go back someday soon..

 There are cool places to stop along the way..

I give the whole lake Mead experience a B....  

Not somewhere you would want to swim... too hot to picnic. 

 

But it has that underlying aura of foreboding...

Will I survive this Sunday outing kind of thrill!

All and all if I want to splash in natures waters, it's worth 5 hours to the beach!

Much better!

Not to be an alarmist... but I think the Lakes Mojo followed us home...

There was this little episode at 3am this morning... I blame the Lake.

PSA... everyone go lift your tank and make sure that black tube thingy is inserted into that white overflow tube.  Make sure it never leaves... 

   

8 rules to being a good house guest.

Sometimes being nice doesn't make you feel all that warm and fuzzy.

Mom learned that lesson with the neighbor Adele, who when offered help took it, grabbed and begged for more and was a pissy old Bitch when Mom refused to be used and abused..

Give me more.

Chell found her own younger version of Adele.
'I just need a break from it all' She says.
Chell thought it would be the right thing to do to help out a single Mother of three boys, one being severely Autistic.  A tired hard working soul who has little money, woman who's tales of daily life were so heartbreaking, that Chell offered up her house for the woman to R&R and re-group.

'I just want to read by the pool and be no bother...  I don't want to do anything  but relax.'

Lies and more lies.

Rules for being a good house guest 101..  really people it's not that hard.

1- If you formerly cry about how poor you are, don't feed the  $100's of dollars in the slot machines in front of us. One of the reasons you are staying at the house is because you needed cheap rest and relaxation.

And you are a loser.

2-If you think you want to get out and about some, rent a damn car.. Don't text every 2 minutes hinting you want to be chauffeured. (After picking you up at the airport and offering a trip to the market.)

'I found some menus in the kitchen, do they deliver?'

'Can I walk to the strip?'

'How far is it to the grocery store? I think I am lost.'

'Is there a bar close by?.

3- The 2 cases of water and all the other goodies in the fridge were not put there for you to consume. It would be okay to leave a bottle or two.

4-Same with the full pack of batteries... Don't take shit that doesn't belong to you.

5- Just because the thermostat goes down to 50 doesn't mean you need to make it feel like an Alaska winter.

Wow Vegas is so hot! Glad you have A/C.

That shit costs.

6-Just because your Boobs grew as your waistline did, don't keep offering up reasons to get naked or half naked in front of Chell.... Hello she is taken!

I hate that my boobs are so big, they draw such attention...   

She really said that as she was falling our of her low cut muumuu dress.

7-As a general courtesy, if you are going to lie and be a user, please have a little shame and don't flaunt it.

8-Never put the fear of God into your host by saying... "I think I will call the airline and see how much it would be to extend my stay."  She really did.... she didn't even think to ask if she could stay longer.

  And BTW, come to find out she funded her shopping drinking and gambling with her sons Social Security check.... 

Thank God she had suckered another friend she knows in Las Vegas to cart her around some.. If Chell has to entertain her anymore than she did, another body may have been dumped on Sunrise Mountain.

So many places up there to hide a corpse.

Bring change for the bus.... and some big band-aids.

When you come to Vegas part of the fun is some of the thrill rides.

A roller coaster through the New York skyline!

The Stratosphere offers heart attack inducing rides 

Including a leap of faith.

Weeeeeeeeeee......

Reality is if the equipment malfunctions you are dead.

But that is not where the danger hides.. its these scary little places all through the city called Bus Stops.

Will they survive the wait?

No, it's not because some punks come and steal your money and stuff.. That happens mostly in movies and video games... 

   

It's because we recently have now coined the phrase 'Bus stop safety'

Imagine, finally a cool early morning.. waiting to for your bus. 
A shitty way to commute, but hey, you are working. 

When out of no where a air born  
shitbox of a car hits you and your fellow riders.

The driver went to the hospital and then directly to jail.

Not the first bus stop to be demolished by an ass driving impaired.

 4 dead and dismembered.  8 injured.

The worst of a series of bus stop vs moving vehicle. That was Thursday morning.

Sept 6th...

Pedestrian injured when hit by car at bus stop

August 25th...  

3 injured, including toddler, when driver 

hits bus stop.. 

Noel Lardeo, a first-grade teacher, looks to attorney Warren Geller during a preliminary hearing at the Regional Justice Court Monday, April 2, 2012. Lardeo is accused of being under the influence of alcohol in February when she lost control of her car, striking a bus bench and critically injuring a 15-year-old boy on Spring Mountain Road

June 21 2010...

Suspected drunk driver crashes into bus stop

Nov 2010....

Coroner identifies man, 50, killed in bus stop crash

That is just some... year after year... 

So if you come to Vegas and decide to take the bus.. bring your personal pedestrian airbags.

Don't mind us, we are just going to work...

When it rains it pours

As the rest of the country suffer drought conditions, we here in Vegas have had a record wet, humid season.
Irony is we don't bother growing crops.

My attempt at tomatoes resulted in fried green tomatoes, before I even picked them.

Yesterday we had another record rain fall.

Vegas is built for bling not weepy skies, this is what happens when a inch of rain falls.

Should have taken the bus.

Students at UNLV

Good thing nobody uses snail mail anymore.

Then the water recedes, just as quick as it floods. 

Doesn't matter, the mail is already soaked in the truck.

These kids think they are stronger than nature, playing in the wash.

There was a guy just doing his job at the golf course.. riding along taking care of business.. he was swept away, they are still looking for the dude.. the force and quickness in that fierce.

Mother nature always wins.

Gay is a day away.

Las Vegas marches to it's own beat for sure.
Most the country celebrates Gay Pride in June.
Here we don't do morning parades in the heat of Summer, we do night parades on the cusp of Autumn.

Who is in????

I haven't been to our Pride parade, it tomorrow night Chell and I are headed down to Fremont in search of Super Fabulous characters!.. 

And as at every Pride event, the Haters with their signs.

What can you do?

Can't wait to go watch the show and be a part of the pride... Hand in hand with my Chell!