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Written by Shotgun Spratling   
Saturday, 24 October 2009 13:31

At this point last week, I was in Las Vegas sitting in a Blog World Expo conference session and trying to shake off a crazy night of partying with Captain Morgan, Carlton Banks, and some of the top sports bloggers of the world.

Technically, last Friday night ended around 7:15 in the morning when I finally got back to my hotel, but I was back up at 11:00 to go learn some new techniques and information about how to make myself a better writer and blogger.

The Vegas experience definitely took a toll on my body, which is why I have still yet to get my full recap from Blog World Expo & Blogs With Balls 2.0 (it'll be finished tomorrow I promise). Until then, I leave you with my tallies from last weekend, including complete totals of my food & drink consumption, expenses, hours slept, and lastly the master tally:

Expenses

Wow! I did well on this one. This is how much I spent myself as most of the travel expenses were split with my weekend roommate, Patrick Crawley of BasketballFiend:

FREE - Blog World Expo full access weekend pass (including Blogs With Balls 2.0 track)
$25 - Gas for drive from Los Angeles to Vegas
$52 - Three nights at the Greek Isles Hotel & Casino
$27 - Dress shoes
$19 - Food for four days
$60 - BwB charity poker shootout for Ante Up for Africa
$46 - Drinks over course of three nights
$110 - VIP for club (paid for 2 1/2 people's costs)
$50 - Ghost Bar cover (paid for 2 people...still ridiculous)
$33 - Cab fares
$5 - Monorail ticket
$25 - Various tips
TOTAL - $457

However, by coming in 4th place in the poker tournament by some slight miracle, I WON $528, so for the entire weekend I came out $76 AHEAD.

Food & Drink

This is all the food I consumed, no matter how small, throughout the entire four days from Thursday morning when we left (at 3 AM) until we returned to Los Angeles Sunday evening (6:30 PM).

  • convenience store pickled sausage ($1.50)
  • small breakfast muffin (FREE)
  • smoothie ($5)
  • ESPN Zone buffet of wings and loaded potato wedges (FREE)
  • 4 brownies (FREE)
  • 12" Subway sandwich ($7)
  • snack plate of chicken fingers (FREE)
  • ice cream cone (FREE)
  • snack size bag of Doritos (FREE)
  • multiple milkshake samples from Fatburger (FREE)
  • large strawberry milkshake & fries from Fatburger ($5)

 Here are the different drinks I consumed:

  • water
  • MonaVie eMV energy drink
  • Jeremiah Wood sweet tea vodka w/lemonade
  • Jose Cuervo Silver shots
  • Captain Morgan shots
  • Captain Morgan w/Coke
  • Crown Royal on the rocks
  • Crown Royal w/Coke
  • vodka w/ 7UP
  • whiskey sour
  • Mountain Dew


Sleep

I'm going to trace this one all the way back to Monday night/Tuesday morning before leaving because it definitely had its toll.

  • Monday/Tuesday - 2 hours
  • Tuesday/Wednesday - 5 hours
  • Wednesday/Thursday - 0 hours
  • Thursday/Friday - 6 hours
  • Friday/Saturday - 3.5 hours
  • Saturday/Sunday - 5 hours

TOTAL: 21.5 hours of sleep over 6 days or an AVERAGE of 3.5 hours per night


Master Talley

  • 2 - swollen shins from standing on VIP railing and singing
  • 2 - blistered Achilles from walking multiple miles in new dress shoes
  • 1 - chafed left thigh from the multiple miles
  • 1 - liver claiming attempted manslaughter
  • 3 - cab drivers lied to
  • 6 - casinos entered that I did not gamble in
  • 3 - pictures taken with Carlton Banks
  • 3 - shots of Captain Morgan taken with the Captain Morgan
  • 2 - true Vegas experience nights
  • 1 - freakin awesome conference
  • too many to count - incredible conversations and contacts made throughout the weekend

Shotgun Spratling 



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HOW
written by punte, October 25, 2009
did you pull off a free pass to BWB? That's mighty badass of you, sir.
I remember
written by Basketball Fiend, October 26, 2009
...going over this tally on our way home and just shaking my head. Can't believe we had such a cool Vegas experience on so few dollars.

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