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

Countdown to Vegas trip #4 of the year in full effect now. Nothing really has changed in the planning. Good eating, questionable drinking, bad gambling. The usual. Have a bit of a life change that will affect Vegas a bit, going to get myself a car now that I'm licensed again. Too damn likely to die as a pedestrian in the City anymore, few days go by that I don't almost get mooshed while walking to and from work. Going to buy one outright via a 401k loan, so the only long-term financial impact is repaying the loan (bout $200/month directly debited from pay) and the insurance payment, which for all the cars I've modeled is less than $50. Looking at used Mercedes or Audis, I've always wanted a real car, no more crappy American or Japanese 4-bangers, and now that I have the means to do it finally, I'm going to make it happen. Good loan rate from Vanguard, less than 5%, better than I could get at any dealership so pulled the trigger. Still leaves a nice chunk in...

Some airline weirdness may have me going to A CITY OTHER THAN LAS FUCKING VEGAS next year. I know, I'm shocked too. So I booked the "out" flight of my March Vegas trip with Frontier Airlines, which apparently is dropping the SFO-LAS route in the new year. The upshot of that is I was refunded the full fare amount, AND was given a $100 flight voucher for anywhere Frontier flies. My first thought was Palm Springs for the tennis tournament down there in March but I will have just come back from Vegas and Frontier doesn't fly there anyway. Also thought Austin for F1 but that's not until next October, I'll be outside the booking window of the voucher. Then I thought "go see my mom", but North Dakota, yeah no. So now I'm thinking a Giants away game. I can't book it yet because it's too far out but the G-men will be in Denver in mid-April, or will be in Chicago and New York in May. Probably would just be a two, max three day excursio...

I'll have thoughts about last night, but not now. All I want now is to get to the weekend, get about 6 bottles of wine and try to forget Tuesday ever happened.