Update, 4/28/25: Dear Readers, my wife and I have arrived in Las Vegas. You can read the prologue to this adventure on Lasken's Log at https://laskenlog.blogspot.com/. For philosophical and technical reasons, I'm transferring updates on our trip here, to Harry the Human's realm. At this moment I'm on my laptop on the 9th floor of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas; my wife's doing her online class across the room. I just got back from a long walk through the Luxor casino into the Mandalay Bay casino and retail area. I also wanted to walk outside for the cool desert evening, but this place was not designed for walking outside- it's a wastland of construction and busy streets without sidewalks. I must say, though, that I adore the large copies of Egyptian sculptures in the Luxor lobby. I find them captivating, though they lack the power to make me gamble. They did make me want to stay here, so that I could drive once around the entryway, flanked by imposing columns, the Sphinx, and a pyramidal hotel, before seeking the massive airport sized parking lot. What a sucker I am for falling for those faux statues. On the other hand, they offer good focal points, especially this Passover week, for meditation on God's immediate purpose in launchiing the 10 plagues against the Hebrews. Each of those attacks was designed to destroy a specific Egyptian god, from Horus to Ra. The best known plague, the killing of the firstborn, was intended to kill the pharaoh, considered a god. And yet here they are, the Egyptian gods, back again in Las Vegas!
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