More DEF CON
I didn't realize that Hacker Jeopardy was a drinking game, so I actually signed up for it, in a team with Lucky and Robyn. We called our team LFSR, because it was made up of Lucky, a Fictitious person, Seth, and Robyn. But once I found out that you had to drink alcohol to compete in Hacker Jeopardy, I dropped out, and that was the end of LFSR -- which is too bad, because I think we were a strong team and might have won.
I had a chance to go swimming a couple of times at the Alexis Park. The weather was always hot enough for it, even in the middle of the night, and even after midnight. It felt really good. That's one use of intense heat, like the heat out in the desert.
We tried to find a health food store -- since Las Vegas supposedly had finally acquired a Wild Oats store -- but when we got to the location we'd been given, there was no health food store in sight. We eventually found a little tiny health food store, which was pretty nice, but not quite a supermarket. The proprietor agreed with our guess that there weren't so many people looking for organic or vegetarian food in Las Vegas.
We left Las Vegas on Sunday, and had a long ride back. I tried playing Scrabble with Riana, as I mentioned above, until I started to feel motion-sick. After that, our conversation turned to lipography, and I ended up having a long conversation with Riana (at least 45 minutes, I think) during which I didn't use the letter "e" at all. (In the days which followed, I wrote a great deal of lipography in "e", which is an art I hadn't practiced since sometime last year, when I wrote some in this diary. It turns out to be lots of fun, and even a bit addictive.)
We also stopped briefly in Boron, CA, where I got a milkshake. Since it was Sunday evening, very little was open in Boron, and we couldn't, for example, buy any ulexite.
