In the Local News...

Yesterday, MGM/Mirage offered to buy out Mandalay Bay Resorts - in a cash transaction coming to about $8 billion. Today's newspaper article mentioned that if the MGM/Mirage did succeed in their plan, the Excalibur itself would most likely be scheduled for implosion, and also that hotel execs had not planned on telling the employees until the deal was finalized. Thanks a lot, guys, for your loyalty and commitment to your hirelings. Personally, I think that if I were in the MGM/Mirage shoes, I would also blow up the Excalibur - the place is a hole, a cesspit of foulness & sewage. I know what they were waiting for - MGM wants the Mandalay Bay's convention space & the Events Center, but they were waiting around to see if the cost of building & running the place would actually pay off - it did, fantastically.
I know when I get to work tonight, that article is probably going to be plastered across every open space available & everyone will be running amok w/fear & speculation. But ya know what? I think it's time for a change for me personally anyway. Why else have I been chanting a mantra to Kali? Why else have I been trying to work my way back into County employment? Why else have I been trying to pay off long-overdue bills while I had the opportunity?
As I posted on the Pagan tribe over at tribe.net, I believe that a witch is someone who inflicts change. As a witch, I'm working my craft - on myself. Unfortunately, I may have helped put a chain of events in motion that inflicted change on a whole lotta other people in the meantime. Oh well.
In other news, Rob quit his once-a-week security job, and is still expecting me to do dishes. Ass.