Next. Birthday Vegas.

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Oh fuck it.

I am going to Vegas for my birthday. Most likely. I have booked air flying in late on Tuesday the 23rd and flying out early on Saturday the 27th on my birthday week. I took advantage of a discount voucher I got from Alaska for the cancelled flight a couple weeks ago (it pays to complain) to book round trip non-stop for $43. Bit of an early fly-out on Saturday morning but I will just have to hit the rack relatively early Friday night to get 5 hours or so, or, more likely, just power through and sleep once I'm back here.

Got a great rate at Hard Rock in an HRH Suite so I'm going to be living the suite life on my 50th. Wanted to go suite on this trip because this is obviously a milestone birthday, and hey you only turn 50 once. Anything else this nice directly on strip would have been hundreds more. All in for the 4 nights with resort fee is less than $500. I can cancel any time so if comp nights drop in before go time I can re-book, but TBH unless CET comes through with some comped nights this will probably be my jam. The location isn't ideal but they run a shuttle to/from the strip all day and it's really only a mile walk or a short cab to/from LVB.

Yes I know I don't have a job. Yes I know it's slightly dumb to book a vacation when I don't have a job. I don't care. I HAVE to have a Vegas trip lined up. It's about the only thing that keeps me sane these days. I need something to obsess and plan for or the rut grinds me into paste. And it's my 50th birthday, damn it, I'm not going to celebrate that on fucking Polk Street in the City.

Plus, absolute worst case scenario if I get a job that will be hard-assed about the dates I can always just eat the trip and only be out $43. $43 is worth it to me to be able to keep my Vegas dream alive for another 4 months. Plus I would doubt any job would have too much trouble OK'ing a vacation as long as it's a condition of employment. If they did have beef with it I probably shouldn't work there.

Money-wise this should be a low-impact trip anyway. I can try to maximize savings from UI which will cut off at about trip time and put any tax refund proceeds into the trip fund, and in any case it'll only be about a $3K save anyway. A few hundred for the short first night (arriving at around 10p) and something like $800 for each of the 3 full days.

So we're off and rolling on the planning train again. Less than a week since returning from the last trip I'm obsessing about the next.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

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