Closer.

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Not long now.

Happy happy fun time no pressure bonus Vegas trip less than a week away. At least as far as I can tell, I'm putting lessons learned from past mistakes to use and doing everything right in the planning of this one.

I'm in for a quick, 3 day trip. No flying in the night before with no room, no sitting around on the fly out day waiting to get on the plane. I fly in early Friday morning and then have a mid afternoon flight out on Monday. 3 full, solid days in Vegas with no shuffling between resorts as I have in the past. Hopefully no hitting the wall like has happened at the end of longer trips.

I contacted one of the casino hosts at Monte Carlo and have arranged early check-in on Friday and late check out on Monday. The benefits of Mlife membership. No early wake up call on that Monday morning is going to be heavenly. Means I can stay out as late as I want on Sunday without having to worry about checking out at 11a and meandering about waiting for the flight. On the flight out day all I want to do is wake up and head straight to the airport, which is what will happen this time. Early check in means I can get into town, hit a bar somewhere for a couple hours then head over to drop off my bags, maybe get a quick nap then head out to rage.

Food for Friday and Saturday is covered. I saw a story somewhere about the gnocci Bolognese at d.Vino at Monte Carlo so will be jumping on that Friday, then on Saturday, my birthday, it's off to my favorite steakhouse in Vegas, Gallagher's at NYNY. The Dubs play a playoff game that night too, so that whole evening is set up nicely. Will just play it by ear (and wallet) Sunday on food. May splurge if a Michael Jackson slot machine pays me off again.

The final pre-Vegas paycheck has come through and I will hit my savings number on the dot again. $3K spending money for 3 days. Think I'll be taking it a little easier on the slots this trip so that should be more than enough.

No blow this time, which is also a bit of a relief. It and the liquor together really kicked my ass last time, and made the last day of that trip a slog again. To say nothing of how I felt for the week afterwards. Shit doesn't do me enough benefit to justify the consequences, and the lack of TSA stress will be nice. Vodka and beer this time.

Won't have a big myVegas reward this time as I've had little time to build up points, but I should be able to cash in something decent with the 5 days I have left to stack them up. Still getting 3 nights worth around $450, $50 Freeplay and a little resort credit toward a meal, so all in all about $550 in freebies.

Getting jazzed again. So quickly I forget the negative about Vegas and come back like an abused spouse to another beating.

Ready for another round of blood and bruises.

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