Almost.

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A hibernation weekend, 3 1/2 easy days of work, then it's off to El Happy Land for 5 nights, 4 days of get down.

No illusions about what will happen, this will be trip 21 in a series of who knows how many more, and I know what they look like at this point. Drinking, bad gambling, good eating, more drinking, sleep, shower, repeat. I've set minimum expectations for my trips at just relaxing, being on a bender and enjoying soaking up the vibes of my favorite place. If anything gets sideways it can only really be a good thing.

The money is out of the bank aside from having to go pull basically all of this next paycheck out on Friday. That'll take me out northwest of the strip and I considered making a few stops at say Palace Station or Artisan or Lucky Dragon but the only real reason to do that during the daytime would be to gamble and I don't plan to do much of that. Besides, whatever gambling I do will likely be at Cosmo again, as it's the only place I legit have any shot of getting room comp status for next year.

My gambling fortunes have been pretty minimal in the last couple years of trips. The last handpay I hit in Vegas was March of 2015, over 2 years ago. Depressing. I'd like to say "I'm due", but I know that's BS. If there was anything like luck involved in the slots in Vegas I would have hit far more than this - they are just designed to rob you, and strangely I'm OK with that now. I look at throwing a couple hundy away in the slots there now as buying a really expensive lottery ticket. I find the games where you can actually win a chunk if you do hit the golden ticket and if they steal me blind (which they will) it's fine. It's part of the ritual now.

So like the last few trips, all CET props, I will spend almost no time in the resort I'm staying at aside from to sleep, will haunt my usual bars and some of the usual food places, and hopefully will add a few more to the list as I try to on every trip. And that's fine. The pants on head, raging, orgiastic Las Vegas that the rich and young and friend-having peeps of the world can enjoy is not me, and that's OK.

Because I'm sure as shit going to enjoy it anyway. 4 days.

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