It's Getting Real.

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T-minus 1 week to splashdown in Vegas for trip #4 and closing out a pretty good Vegas year.

All the details are set at this point, I'll be driving the new car to the airport and parking it; the other option being leaving it on the street here, getting a street sweeping ticket and being worried about it sitting unmoved for a week while prying eyes notice that fact. I do live in the Bayview, after all. So I'll eat the $100 parking fee and at least save myself having to worry about getting a cab on the way back, so I'm really only down about $60 on the deal and will have more peace of mind.

Once in town, I'm doing the Bell Limo thing to and from the airport again. For only $30 plus tips round trip it really can't be beat. Even though Uber Pool is in Vegas now and I could save maybe $20 it's like, fuck it, I'm in Vegas, let's arrive at the resort in style. I may end up using Uber Pool in town though to get around as walking up and down the strip in 40 degree weather might not be ideal.

The money is in a good place. I only ended up putting $3K down on the Audi, so the rest went into the Vegas fund. Also just got a $3000 bump in the limit on my MasterCard so that's another $5K that's available in an emergency. And in Vegas an emergency would be meeting Kloe Kane in a bar and her asking me to give her $2K for a night between the sheets. Which I would. I also just got my holiday bonus from work, $500 cash again, makes it a totally stress-free trip money-wise. The final number will be around $5300, give or take a hundy.

I booked one other "event" for the trip, I will be seeing a small theater show at PH called "Shotspeare", which is a comedy take on you-know-who's work. Apparently the cast drinks on stage and encourages the audience to do so as well, so should be an interesting hour and a half diversion on the first night in town. I don't do enough events in Vegas TBH, there's so much to see/do, so this will help remedy that. Plus I love Shakespeare.

Other than that I'm good to go. I'm glad to have the car buying thing out of the way so now I can focus on having a great trip with no distractions or worries. Feeling good about this one, time to play out the work string and get this year finished up with (hopefully) a bang. Or two.

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