From time to time, all of us that live in this wonderful state have had problems convincing the outside world that we really are a part of the United States. Although, at times I wonder if this should not be appealed since there is a growing number of us that never had the opportunity to vote our desire. I once again came across this problem the evening past.

Laughlin, Nevada has always been one of my favorite places to do a little gambling. Primarily because it has a smaller town atmosphere and the only place where I have ever won any amount of cold hard cash. Cruising through the www last evening, I visited Laughlin just to see if any new casinos had been established and check on room rates. I discovered a new casino, looked quite nice and while reviewing that web page, http://www.avi-casino.com I discovered a drawing for a package containing two nights stay, two dinners, and cash for gambling. Normally, I do not enter such high stake gambling, but I did make an exception this particular time. After entering my name, address, and city, I went to the drop down menu to select my state. Much to my surprise, Alaska was not listed although the other 49 states were listed in alphabetical order. No problem, I will just type it in. Wrong, it would not accept that either.

Having a great desire to exercise my sense of humor, I immediately composed an e-mail to the Marketing Director of the casino. Within the body of the text, I spent a little extra time explaining the history of Alaska and that we really were one of the fifty states. All the time, thinking to myself, just to appease me and not to get any irate Alaskans after them, they would likely comp me a room for my stay for discovering the error on their web site.

This morning, I received two returns from my email. One from the Webmaster, advising me that the problem had been corrected and Alaska had been listed in the drop down menu, thanking me for letting them know. The second e-mail came from the Marketing Department, again thanking me for bringing it to their attention but no mention of any comps.

Not wanting to stir, but now that Alaska has been added to their list, wouldn't it be great if all of a sudden their drawing was flooded with hundreds of entries from Alaska? I plan on entering daily until I once again return to Laughlin.