Picto Diary - 21 to 31 January 2025 - The Sphere, Las Vegas

Above: The Twentieth Hole, Black Desert, Ivins, UT. 22 January 2024.

Sports bar fare. Not bad. Ribs were good.

Above: Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev. 23 January 2025.
Auspicious view, looking northwest, from our Palazzo hotel room window.

Above: O Show. Cirque de Soleil. Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. 23 January 2025.
Our second time attending this show.

Above: Mob Museum, Las Vegas, NV 24 January 2025.
Comic Mom, Maharajah and TIMDT do bullet forensics in museum interactive crime lab. Museum, well documented, was above expectations.

Above: Eagles perform at The Sphere. Las Vegas, NV. 24 January 2025.
Must go. Kinda like the Taj Mahal of the modern era. 164K speakers and unimaginable video covering the entire interior dome. On the one hand, I feel sorry for these guys having to play the same music night after night. In their post heyday incarnations, they tried to create new music, but no one was interested. Their only value lay in the famous numbers they created in the '70's. But what value that must be. 17K sellouts at the Sphere night after night with estimated average ticket value of $400.

Above: Cedar Pocket, Arizona. 27 January 2025.
Out and about on the 'Wing.

Above: Mt. Timpanogas, Utah County, Utah. 28 January 2025.
How we take for granted this magnificent scenery!

Above: Trump Ski Run. Deer Valley, UT. 29 January 2025.
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Above: Empire Lodge, Deer Valley, UT. 30 January 2025.
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Above: Freddie snoozing on the snow. Iron Canyon, Park City, UT. 31 January 2025.

Above: Koessler, Florida Chapter Federalist Society, Participant image. 31 January 2025.

Addendum:

I taught a lesson in my blue uniform on Monday, the 20th. My clients could only endure the cold for about 45 minutes at a time. We took about 5 breaks and then called it a day. As your picture documents, it was a beautiful blue sky day, with effectively no clouds. We also made a couple runs off Lady Morgan, trying to get some sunshine. On one of the runs, the temps were so cold that the epoxy glue holding my name badge together completely failed and my badge dropped into the snow ahead of me.

I have been skiing for many years. Yesterday, at about 3 degrees when we started, was the second coldest time I remember ever skiing. The coldest, -5 degrees night skiing, was in the east when I was a teenager.

Regards,
Delhi PJs
West Jordan, UT