I'm an amateur professional Vegas enthusiast. 

I've always been fascinated with luck. 

Nudges from the other side, near misses, preservation, etc. 

On October 9th 2024 I almost won $336,000,000 in the Kansas Powerball. 

I had picked all the numbers, and was only "off" by an average of 1.8 per specific digit - like I had 44 and the number was 43, or I had 54 and the number was 53, etc. - I also had the right Powerball number (10). 

I've almost won the Megabucks $10M slot machine about 4 different times, where the symbols have landed a micro-millimeter from the payline, on the center payline, etc. This has happened at Park MGM, Mandalay Bay, Fontainebleau, etc. 

I've never considered myself to be a "normal" person. Growing up I was a smart, but abnormally squirrely child. This characteristic stuck with me all through grade school, middle school, and high school. I was voted "Class Clown" my Senior Year of high school.

Naturally I went on to study teaching in college. To help pay my way I spent 4.5 years working part-time for Boys & Girls Clubs - working in the afterschool program for kids.

When I graduated college and it was time to "grow up" - I was offered my first "real" adult job. The year was 2009, and I took a job sight unseen, as the Sports Director for Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas.

I signed on, packed up everything I had, and moved 1,300 miles from my hometown, for the glittering lights of Las Vegas Nevada. I've always been bad at math, so naturally I was excited to be paid $13 an hour for the opportunity.

Upon arrival I realized I was lacking basic math skills and basic budgeting - so renting an apartment was out of the question. I stumbled on a listing for a hotel near Fremont Street undergoing nightly renovations, with rooms listed for $9 a night. So for the first month I lived in the 1970's Gold Spoke Motel, just off the Fremont Street Experience.

Within about 6 months, and many, many youth-fueled, bad decisions later, and I was all cashed out, so it was back to my hometown to put my life back in order. But I never stopped thinking about my time in Las Vegas.

I spent the next 13 years dreaming of Vegas, fantasizing about Vegas, researching Las Vegas, and making plans for how I could get back to Vegas, and it took me nearly that long to return.

I came back for a few visits here and there - but I never had my life organized enough to move there again until 2022 (and it didn't work out for me then either, for the exact same reasons that I failed in 2009).

Finally after all those years of visiting, and waiting, and living here (2009), moving away (2010), living here again (2022), moving away again (2023), and now living here for the third time in my adult life (2025) - I decided I wanted to put my thoughts down on paper to reflect on everything I've learned about the city I've always loved.

This website is a passion project for me - I've sat on this content over the past 17 years. Vegas is all I ever wanted. And this is a catalog of my life experience here. This is how I get the most out of Vegas - since I spent so much time not knowing when I'd be back.

There is a lot of content coming in the mid/later part of 2025, so stay tuned because if you love Vegas, you're not going to want to miss any of it.

I'm excited to welcome you to my weird little corner of the world...