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

The older I get, the less I give a shit about sports. I've always been pretty selective about what I follow sports-wise anyway. I didn't share my dad/brother's passion for sports as a kid, I was much more interested in playing with Star Wars toys than watching sports with them. I didn't play any sports as a kid, I was in a youth basketball league for one season probably just at my dad's pleading. I sucked at it. I got into martial arts around when I was 13 or so, but that wasn't really a sports thing, it was an idolizing Bruce Lee thing. I didn't play or follow anything sports-wise until I picked up tennis when I was in high school. My mom had been into tennis and I had hit the ball off the garage door here and there but when I finally started playing in my sophomore year, I went crazy. I was obsessed. Played pretty much every day, sometimes twice a day in the summer from my soph year to my first year in community college. When I wasn't playin...

Because, mystifyingly, CET continues to provide me with free hotel rooms for no apparent reason, and because I'm silly, I have booked a March trip for next year. 5 free nights at Paris in a brand new Burgundy room with an Eiffel view. Just paying resort fees again, less than $200 where normies would have to pay over $1200. Arriving on a Wednesday night late and leaving on a Monday. In on Frontier  (UPDATE:Frontier dropped the SFO/LAS route, so had to spend $25 more to go in on Virgin), out on Virgin. Arriving around 10p, so really it's 5 nights, 4 days, then out in the afternoon on Monday. Round trip flight ridiculous at exactly $100 (UPDATE: now more like $125. Still good). All told should only have to take Th/Fri/Mon off work, and it's usually slow around then at my job so no big whoop. Haven't spent much time at Paris in all my trips, so this should be interesting. Good location as it is with PH for Xmas. Again just paying the resort fees for 5 nights, so aro...

Not much of a plan. Pretty unhindered on this trip. No messing around with myVegas, no being tied to Mlife resorts or any resort for that matter. No resort swapping as I have done in the past on Xmas trips, just 5 long, free days at Planet Hollywood. I get in on the Thursday before Xmas, around noon. Probably a little early to try to check in, so I'll likely get the car to take me to the Cosmo, maybe grab a quick lunch at the Henry to get some liquor soaking going on, then have a drink or two at one of the bars before crossing the street to check in at PH. Check in, grab a six-pack from The Store by the lobby to take up to my in-room fridge (a free one with no strings attached!) and head up to check out the Ultra Hip Fountain View room. Unpack, iron some shirts if needed, relax for a little bit, have a beer and check out what should be a pretty great view. Don't think I'll need a nap as I don't have a crazy early wake up call this time. After that I'm fre...