Mike was restless. He'd been reading everything he could get his hands on about the fire at a Mexican casino, and he had some ideas for how to protect a Las Vegas casino from similar attacks. The problem was that his ideas were useless while he was stuck in Hawaii.

He enjoyed his job, but sometimes he missed the energy and excitement of the poker ( Read more... )

It was always annoying when someone kept pocket-dialing you. It was even worse when it was your wife pocket-dialing you from two time zones away and you could hear her laughing while a male voice talked in the background, which was why Mike was blowing up her phone until he got a chance to talk to her. Unfortunately, now his calls were going ( Read more... )

As much as Mike enjoyed his job, sometimes he got stuck troubleshooting the computer problems his staff couldn't handle. Currently, he was fixing an issue that resulted in a 24 hour W-LAN network outage for the entire result. The cause of the problem ( Read more... )

After the exhaustion of evacuating a resort for the big tsunami that was anything but big, Mike had sleepwalked through the following week. He'd talked to Cooper before, during, and after the crisis, and he knew that Cooper would let everyone in Las Vegas know that he'd survived. But he wasn't entirely sure if someone had passed the word onto Mary ( Read more... )

Mike had the television on in the background while watching sports on his laptop ("Really, just because it's 3 in the afternoon here doesn't mean I should have to watch the Olympics on a tape delay," he had been grumbling since Friday). There really wasn't anything worth watching on the television itself, but Mike managed to glance up at just the ( Read more... )

Of course Mike would get sick in time for Halloween ( Read more... )

Early in the morning, Mike was half-asleep in bed when he heard the door front door slam shut. It took a few seconds for it to register that someone was in his villa, and he'd gone to bed alone last night. Once he rolled out of bed, it took a few more seconds to look down and realize that he had a few more bits than what he'd had yesterday. "What ( Read more... )

Even though it was another beautiful day in the Hawaiian islands, Mike had the strangest feeling that he should have been in Las Vegas this weekend. Maybe it had something to do with the drunk-dialing his wife had done, begging him to come back ( Read more... )

Mike had spent most of his day waiting at Honolulu International Airport waiting for a VIP who missed his connecting flight. The guy had called his casino host in Las Vegas, who got him on another flight with a different airline, but the casino host neglected to tell Mike which airline. As a result, he met three different flights before finally ( Read more... )

Mike was planning on going away for the weekend, and he had invited one of the assistant managers into the living room of his villa to go over some things. "Now, you're going to have to be very careful with the group of retired ladies. They really like their topless sunbathing, but that scares off the rest of the guests that would be at the topless ( Read more... )