Last modified: Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:25 AM EDT D'ARCONTE: Don't bet casinos are dead So, no gambling casinos for Massachusetts. Today, that is. Man, it's taking them an awful long time to figure out which wheels to grease to get the job done. I guess we don't need the millions in tax money and licensing fees, the tens of thousands of jobs. Poor Deval. He's going to have to find another way to make his budget work. When it comes to gambling, I have a problem. I just can't bring myself to do it in a serious way. I might dump my loose change in a slot as I walk across the casino floor on my way to dine, or be entertained, but that's it. And I've been to the casinos in Connecticut, in Las Vegas and in Atlantic City. The places, and the people, put on quite a show. And that's the best part of it. This casino delay is probably good for our Bingo game. (Don't forget to look for your new card in today's paper.) The wife and I are playing every week, and it's a close contest. Not being eligible to win "the big bucks," each week we put a dollar in a big glass container and knock off those numbers every day, playing two cards each. If neither one of us gets Bingo, the one with the most numbers at the end gets the pot. Do me a favor. Don't tell DiMasi. Political update My good friend Joe Ford points out I was wrong in my column last week. Cindy McCain is not chairwoman of the board of Anheuser-Busch, but of Hensley Distributors, a major Anheuser-Busch distributor in the United States. The same correction goes for Sen. McCain's son. Also, I wrote Michigan last week when I should have said Ohio in talking about predicting Clinton victories. My usually imepccable reporting skills are sure being tested by this high-pressure political season ... Thanks for the papers "My granddaughter is stationed in Korea in the Army," writes Meg Cartier of Plainville. "She mailed me a gift and this was the packing." It's an edition of a Korean newspaper - all in Korean. Talk about a newsy vacation: "I was in Ecuador with my girlfriend, Pia Mata - a native Ecuadorian - from Feb. 17 to March 1," writes Jonathan O'Reilly of Norton in a note with a copy of El Comercio. "While in Ecuador, we spent four days in the Galapagos exploring the wildlife ..." "The big news while we were in Ecuador was the floods ... We could see the flooding from the airplane when we flew into Guayaquil from the Galapagos ... The other big news was the erupting volcano. "Pia had a reunion with 33 of her relatives while we were in Guayaquil," he adds. "It was her first trip back to Ecuador in 24 years. Many of her cousins had not been born when she left in 1984. "As we were leaving Ecuador, Ecuador and Venezuela were mobilizing troops to the Columbian border due to a dispute over a Columbian guerilla militant group ..." For a photo of Jonathan and Pia with a 500-pound tortoise on Galapagos, go to our Web site, thesunchronicle.com, click Photos, Click Community Galleries and click Vacations. A couple of other things "I have been reading (and agreeing) that Attleboro is a great place to live," writes Lydia Touloumtzis. "However, in reading we had two museums I wondered why the third (Women at Work) was not mentioned. Also that Attleboro is home to a stellar newspaper - The Sun Chronicle." Aw, shucks. Oh, and I hope you wore a sweater last Thursday. That was the official Sweater Day to honor the late Mister Rogers. See you next week.