Xmas Dreamin' In September.

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Already in jonez mode for the Xmas trip, more than 3 months away.

Put in my PTO request today and got no pushback. Will end up having a total of 12 days off, going from the 21st, a Saturday, all the way through to the 1st, a Wednesday. I only have two actual holiday days off from Fisher (cheap bastards) but the rest of the time will be my 2 floating holiday days, then just two actual PTO charged days to fill out the week. Will do some kind of bullshit "work from home" the Monday and Tuesday after the post-Xmas weekend.

Plane ticket not bought yet. Waiting for them to creep under $200 then will have to pounce. No major cheap fare this year, since I'm constrained by work to go during actual Xmas week. Would consider flying out of OAK if it involves a significant saving, though. Not so hard to get in and out of there.

Still locked into the higher-end (for Luxor) Elite King room. Don't see any need or reason to change it as it's the best value room I'm going to see from any of the MGM resorts apparently. No real upchange in comp offers after the trip this month. We'll see if that changes in the next few months, or if Caesars swoops in with some comped nights - unlikely. I've pretty much painted myself into an MGM corner this year room-wise which is fine. It was time to stop being a whore around town with no decent status anywhere.

Haven't begun to plan anything for the actual trip, but I imagine I'll schedule a couple shows in there (probably Atomic Saloon for one) to break up the bar/casino/bar/repeat pattern I can fall into. I'm sure I'll set up a couple meal reservations as we get closer too. Just something to keep a goal to shoot for during the trip days. Will likely buy tix for the Star Wars movie that will be opening that week while I'm there too. It'll be the 3rd straight time I've seen films in the main episodic trilogy while in Vegas. Hope this one will be better than the Last Jedi.

So not much else to report. Love, love love the Xmas trips and so looking forward to it. Zero Vegas fatigue even after 6 trips already this year. Roll on December.

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