Vegas Week.

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Booked this trip in early January so then it was Vegas quarter. Then it was Vegas month.

Now it's Vegas week.

2 1/2 quick, easy days at work then it's early to bed Wednesday night for the 4:15a wake up call Thursday morning. Going to get to bed early the next few nights to get slept up for Vegasapalooza. Normally, when I'm rolling solo I try to work in naps during the course of the day while I'm in town so I don't zombie out and nod off at some swanky bar somewhere. This time since I'll be at least part of the time meeting up w/friends I don't know how much or even if I'll be able to squeeze in nap time.

I've hit the wall a bit on my last two trips on the 3rd day, so I'd like to get enough sleep not to be crushed by that last day. Time before last I came in the night before my reservations and powered through without a room, to squeeze in one more party night. It was fine, but I ended up sleeping from check-in around 11a until about 5:30 the next day, so I don't know if it really is a net increase in Vegas time. This time it's jump on a 7a flight, be in town by 8:30a and be going hard from wheels down.

Also will be a help that I'm not playing musical hotels like I did last time. Going from Flamingo, then to Mandalay then BACK down to the Flamingo over the course of 5 days was tiring and dumb and not worth the free rooms. It was a sizable part of the resulting lameness of the trip. This time it's 4 nights at NYNY, no muss, no fuss. NYNY is becoming something of a home base in town for me. This will be my 3rd time staying there, the rooms are small but clean and well maintained, I've always had a good view, I like the casino and the location is pretty good for my usual stomping grounds.

I'm toying with the idea of staying one more night on Monday, depending on how I feel and where I'm at money-wise. I've said on past trips if I have a good bankroll left I'd love to stay at a posh spot like Wynn or Bellagio or Cosmo or Venetian. The nicest spot I've stayed room-wise was THEhotel at MB. It was pretty rad but pictures of the rooms at the Cosmo or Venetian look ridiculous. I could do with a little luxury. I certainly don't get it in the closet I live in here. My body's not really used to 4 day drinking benders (outside of Vegas trips) and the friends I'm meeting are either bartenders or alcoholics so we'll see where I'm at physically on the 4th day.

Taking a little packet of blow with me too, but thankfully it's better stuff than the crap I had with me over Xmas. I was blowing that nasty crap out of my nasal passages for a month after I came back. yet another contributing factor to the suckage of Xmas Trip 2014. Found an ingenious way to get it through T$A this time. Not that it's ever been an issue in the past.

So all is in place. Hit my savings goal on the number, the weather is supposed to be high 80's and maybe even a 90 on the last day so it'll be t-shirts for me and skimpy clothes for all the ladies. I'm a chubby monkey right now but I'm too old to go to the fucking pools anyway and with my buddies in town I'm more likely to see the inside of bars than the outdoors.

Continuing to kill it on Mlife and myVegas freebies. The take this trip:

-3 free nights at NYNY, around $500 value.
-$100 Freeplay, $22 in Pointplay
-$35 of resort credit left over from last trip.
-$104 ticket to Beatles LOVE from myVegas.
-A couple 2 for 1 beer coupons from myVegas, maybe worth $30.

Add it all up and it's damn near $800 of free shit.

3 more days.

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