I’m back at DEFCON again, it is difficult to stay away once you’ve been…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I seem to be going through the usual re-discovery of how to make life easier here, so I will blog notes here which will hopefully be useful to others too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Breakfast is probably best at McDonald’s at first. I remembered that I bought some single portion plastic tubs of Frosties in Walgreens or CVS Pharmacy. With a bottle of milk, that’s a nice quick breakfast before a day at the con.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For evening food, if you’re on your own like me and don’t fancy sitting in a restaurant on a table for one, then salads are a good option. Again, Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy are good. Sadly I’m not a ranch dressing fan which seems big over here. I should have brought some Heinz Salad Cream! They also do some nice rolls and sandwiches in those two shops, quite healthy options too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am at Ballys Hotel and they have a fridge in each room, or at least the rooms I have booked. At $90\/night, they really are very good value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT, this year, no means of making boiled water for TEA. Yes, TEA. You don’t know how much you want a morning cup of tea until there is no way to do it! So I just bought a $19.99 kettle in Walgreens, just down the strip. Possibly the best purchase I have ever made. The first cup was nectar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, buy a LOT of bottled water. It’s around 40C while I’ve been here, just keep drinking. Fill your fridge with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milk: They don’t have the nice simple supermarket brand whole\/semi-skimmed\/skimmed like the UK. They sell branded purified etc. type milks. The one I settled on is called ‘Half and Half’ by ‘Dairy Pure’. Tastes ok, I’m pretty sure it’s cow’s milk!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I’ll add more as it occurs…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walgreens is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CVS Pahrmacy is here, right near to Ballys, Caesars etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McDonalds is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m back at DEFCON again, it is difficult to stay away once you’ve been… I seem to be going through the usual re-discovery of how to make life easier here, so I will blog notes here which will hopefully be useful to others too. Eating: Breakfast is probably best at McDonald’s at first. I remembered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}