Consume : Bill Owens

Friday Five: Riding The Las Vegas Deuce Bus

1. Buy an all-day ticket for 5$. You can jump on and off as many times as you want during a 24-hour period, handy when it's just too hot to walk. Ride all the way to the terminus and back, it's a great way to navigate the Strip.

2. Get on and get upstairs. Usually there are more seats, and the air-con is more efficient. The views are spectacular especially if you can work your way up to the bus seats at the front.

3. Queueing. Don't be fooled by German tourists. They claim through shrugs and sign language not to understand English but still manage to find their way to the head of the queue. Shout at them and get back in front of them.

4. Do not attempt to board the bus between Circus Circus and Caesar's Palace. You will queue for at least an hour and only a handful in the queue will get on each time the buses arrive.

5. If women in maid's uniforms are near you in the queue, pull them beside you when the bus arrives and ask them to get on ahead of you. They've cleaned your room and served your meals and they are knackered. They deserve your place in the queue. This is especially rewarding if there are German tourists immediately behind you.

Friday Five: Chuck Norris Part 2

Remember this? I clicked onto April's blog this evening and reading back a couple of entries I found this instruction for the 20 October 2008. April, you've just gone up another hundred points in my estimation...

1. Go to Google and type on the search line Find Chuck Norris

2. Hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button

On Lists Made In The Library During Wet Afternoons In Early Autumn

17th century Persians prized tulips, irises, hyacinths and roses in their gardens. List of plants Vita Sackville-West brought home to Long Barn in 1926;

Iris persica

Iris stylosa - her beloved iris

Anemone fulgers - scarlet

Gladiolus segetum - pink

colchicums

Tulipa sylvestris - little nodding golden tulips

Tulipa polychroma - yellow & white

Tulipa ostrowkiana - flame orange

Iris susiana - white with dark veins

Iris tuberosa - the widow iris

Crown Imperials

Persian yellow roses

Rosa foetida persiana

Isfahan / Ispahan - pink damask

La Réve* - Rosa lutea derived

Star of Persia* - " "

Tulipa aucheriana - most splendid of all, "like an old and rich brocade," the yellow-splashed rich rose pink tulip

* always treasured in her gardens subsequently

And That's The Joy You Bring

So impossible as they may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
'Cause who's to know
Which one you let go
Would have made you complete

Well, for me it's waking up beside you
To watch the sunrise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
In any given time or place
It's little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LEISP6e9c&feature=related