It's Not A Bender, It's A Lifestyle.

Booked Ka at MGM for free with my myVegas points. I loved Beatles Love at Mirage and Ka is supposed to be amazing too so I'm in with a free ticket for Sunday night of the July trip. myVegas has clearly changed their win algorithm of late, it's becoming impossible to rack up chips the way you could in the past. At the height of my chip count I was near 3 million on mobile, it's now down to less than 50K, in about 3 months time. They are obviously trying to force players into BUYING chips to keep playing the game, which to me is fucking ridiculous. If you want to buy a million chips it's damn near $100. Why would I buy chips to play a time sucking game to earn rewards when I could just BUY the fucking reward? I've cashed in some good rewards in the past, free drinks and bar credit and the Love ticket but it's not worth the bother any more. I'm going to rack up Loyalty Points in the next month and a half until I either run out of chips or go on the ...

I feel like crap. So many things in my life are good. I have basically no debt, I have a job I like (most of the time) that pays me enough and allows me to take a shit-ton of Vegas trips every year, I live an independent life and am more or less happy. Then why do I feel like shit most of the time? Oh wait, I know the answer to that. It's because I eat like a 14 year old chubby kid whose only food source is Twinkies. My diet is reprehensible and unacceptable for a grown ass man. My diet is the one last thing in my life that I have been unable to get control of. I got control of my finances. I got control of my career. I got control of my relationships (by ending most of them). Why can't I fix my shit diet? I LOVE bad food. I'm addicted to sugar and fat and all the other trappings of the modern junk food diet. The ease of it. You don't have to seek out a fresh food market. You can slip into a corner store or a chain restaurant and make off with a cheese steak or...

Back to the Vegas in mid July to see Alice In Chains at the Palms. Going to try to replicate the pretty great trip I had last year seeing NIN/Soundgarden at about the same time of year. I've never seen AIC and have seen some of the new vocalist's work on Youtube and he certainly has chops. Is it the same as seeing the band with Layne? No, but it's not the rest of the band's fault that the dumbass OD'd. General admission (floor) ticket bought, should be hot and loud and close to the stage. Nice. Flight booked for less than $200, fly in Friday night late and will stay Sat/Sun/Mon and fly back in the afternoon Tuesday. No room Friday night, squeezing in the extra night of fun. Should have no trouble arranging early check-in and out as I did last time which was great. Will only miss two days of work as per usual. No room booked yet, I have a couple offers in hand for three nights with a little Freeplay and RC that are bookable until the end of this mont...