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I do have a fair amount of luck, but if I have learned that if I push too hard or get greedy the universe will kick my ass hard and see to it that I become humble again. :-)

Good lord! :O

Thanks for the info in any case – sounds like something to try once, at least.

YMMV, but… not exactly. Or at least, it depends on the buffet. We went to the Bellagio buffet last year, and yes, it was amaaaazing, but it was also like $60 for breakfast. This year, we went to a couple of downtown buffets, including one (Golden Nugget) that’s supposed to be good, and it was a lot easier on the wallet, but categorically not to die for. If you want an incredible variety of food for not much money, then yeah, it’s an embarrassment of riches, but I’d rather have one thing done well than my choice of a hundred things that have been sitting under heat lamps. (If you’re a big dessert person, you might want to ignore my opinion, because desserts do tend to hold up better.)

I really, really want to go to Vegas now. It sounds like so much fun. I’ve also heard that the buffets are to die for – is that true?

As for luck, I think mine’s decent. I find money on the ground every so often and I have great luck with long-term basic things; I hit the husband jackpot, for instance, and my family is wonderful. I think the biggest thing I’ve ever won is a trip to Paris, in a writing contest. That was pretty awesome.

My husband once won $1000 in an online casino – he likes the brick-and-mortar ones too, but we don’t live near any. He immediately cashed it out and bought us a huge television. :)

Other than that, my luck sucks.

Like when I was in HS and loaned my biggest rival an oboe reed because hers broke and she beat me (and got my state orchestra first chair seat) by one point.

Like when I got into Harvard and Yale and Brown and the parental units said “If you get in, we’ll send you” so being a naive 15 year old, I didn’t apply to UC Berkeley or Michigan and plan to move in with family in either of those states so I could pay in state tuition and the acceptance letters said “Yes, please come!” (if I had known how big a deal that was for a FATGIRL, given the stats, I would have been even madder than I still am, now, I think) and my parents said “Sorry, we made some bad investments, so we’ll have to renege and by the way, we make too much money as a middle class family for you to get financial aid at those institutions and since they all let in smart people, they don’t give academic scholarships and since you suck at sports, you can’t get a sports scholarship either. Sorreeeee!”

I’m not over it (especially since these days pedigree seems to count so much more than actual brains, if you look at our national leadership). Can you tell?

Kate, did you go have Hung’s meal (the Top Chef winner) at Guy Savoy? It looked like the bomb-diggity meal on the show.

Also sounds like it would have beaten the taste hell out of deep-fried Twinkie.

I’m not a gambler at all, by the way. Vegas is my idea of hell. :) And, not being a gambler, if I’d known the odds I’d have stayed fat and happy in the first place and saved myself a lot of pain!