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Jerk of the Week: Walt Goes to Vegas 2024, Part 4: The Caesars to Cosmo Trek I’ve never written this before in any of my Vegas entries, but I make a walk from Caesar’s Palace to the Cosmopolitan at least twice per trip. This is not me enjoying the scenery, which is difficult to do…

Jerk of the Week: Walt Goes to Vegas 2024, Part 3: The Best-Laid Dinner Plans There’s a famous quote that goes, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” I don’t quite know what the author of this quote, Robert Burns, had in mind when he wrote it, but he perhaps he was…

Jerks of the Week: Sept. 23, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Walt Goes to Vegas 2024, Part 2: Stranger Prices I like to get the tedious stuff out of the way whenever I go to Las Vegas. This entails signing up for the Supercontest the first morning I’m there, so I don’t have to worry…

Jerks of the Week: Sept. 16, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Walt Goes to Vegas 2024, Part 1: The Philadelphia International Airport It wouldn’t be a true Walt Goes to Vegas series if I didn’t cite a conversation I had with a former dear friend of mine about the Philadelphia International Airport. I often criticize…

If you’ve followed this site for a while, you might remember that I like to respond to my spam mails. It all started eight years ago, when a man named Jon Wire from the “United Bank of Africoan” promised me an ATM card of some sort, so I responded as a man named Mister Compassion…

Jerks of the Week: Sept. 9, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Jace is on the Case! My son goes to the same daycare/day camp I used to go to as a child. While I initially reminisced about the actual daycare/camp itself, I’ve recently begun thinking about those I considered friends early in my life. Whenever…

Jerks of the Week: Sept. 2, 2024 Jerk of the Week: The Return of Shameless Self-Promotion I used to be in a fantasy football league with this girl a long time ago. While other people in that league came up with creative team names, I would always just call myself “WalterFootball.com.” When I announced that…

Jerks of the Week: Aug. 19, 2024 Jerk of the Week: The CVS Maid’s Tale I don’t get to leave the house very much these days. Then again, I didn’t go out very much in the past either. Back when I was single and childless, I would go to the gym every day and the…