Church at Our Lady Star of the Sea. The celebrant was Vietnamese? He didn’t sound Filipino. I suppose in his own language, he would be a charismatic, but working with English, he couldn’t rile us up.

Took the long way back, through Burlington County, to avoid the GSP and Turnpike traffic.

Caught the Lucky finale. During the commercial break, I heard the familiar strain of... “Strange Powers,” as the backdrop to a... Southern Comfort commercial...? What the...?

...I can’t sleep, ’cause you’ve got strange powers...
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Borgata notes

I took the jitney over in the afternoon Saturday. I heard from two different sources that several of the machines were not working. I saw perhaps three or four banks with signs. The table games were packed, though.

Besides the buffet, there are several restaurants (steakhouse, Chinese, Italian [of course!]), most of them outside of my price range, on or off expensed client sites. The buffet in the back was full, and so was the Metropolitan. The gelato place next to the Metropolitan has a few cold sandwiches past all the pastries. The poker room/racing place, to the right and downstairs, also has some sandwiches, probably from the same kitchen. Noodles of the World looked affordable and never full, tucked away from the main restaurant strip and being what it is. I should have gone there, but I didn’t know about it until after my sandwich and gelato. The sandwich was good though. And the gelato (one scoop of chocolate and one scoop of hazelnut on top) was bursting with flavor. I was particularly impressed by the flavor of the hazelnut gelato. No cannoli though.

Living statues! Freaky. Didn’t get any pictures of them, though. They only seem to associate with each other, though I keep thinking that one of them, all in white, and a Borgata cocktail waitress in their signature brief black dresses and predominantly tan complexions, would make a very striking contrast.

The glass chandeliers and sculptures are fabulous. Most of them are the red and gold-themed ones, but off to the left (as you enter) there’s a gorgeous blue and green one. Next time I’ll take a picture of that.

If you’re going to apply for a My Borgata card, it is a much faster line if you’ve pre-registered over the net, or have a letter, or have a premium (ie, high roller) card from one of the other places. Having left those at the unit, I was stuck for quite a long long time on line. Name, drivers license, e-mail, SSN, phone number, and a Red Label card was mine, but my feet were so sore I just went home.
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