Oh Hey, Would You Look At The Calendar - It's a Vegas Month.

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It's December 1st.

20 days until Vegas-ness. It's getting real real now. This gets down to the no bullshit prep stage now. The hard, HARDcore save goes into effect this Friday as the second to last paycheck before Vegas hits. This one will be made slightly easier though as I was able to sell off the old Pixel 2 XL on Craigslist. Now that the 4 XL is here there was no reason to hang on to it anymore.

I got $200 cash for it, around $70 better than I would have done with Google's pitiful trade-in credit. That gives me most of the capital I will need to get me through to the 20th, and takes pressure off the Mlife CC which I'm trying to keep as clear as possible. My goal is to have a full $4K free on it when I hit the ground in Vegas and I should have no issues now with the cash infusion.

Can pay down another $350 on Friday to get it down to a little over $300 balance, then I can just coast until the 20th to keep it under $600. Will use the Disco to cover the outstanding fees and nightly hold at the Cosmo so I will only need to cover the roughly $300 of incidentals at Mirage on the Mlife CC leaving me with around $3700 spendable, on top of the $4100 cash. Math. It's hard.

Will need to back WAY off on expenses, no more GrubHub'ing and no more spending for the trip. If I don't already own it, it ain't going with me. I'm used to that though on the last few weeks before a trip, I've done it for 9 years now. Save now to splurge in town. As it stands though all numbers should be hit without too much pain and there'll be plenty of spend available for the 7 nights.

Other than that, it all just the waiting game now. All the fly-in day logistics are set, leaving the car in South City free of charge and rolling over to Oaktown on BART. A case for the phone and small bag for all the travel electronics are on the way from Amazon, so that's sussed. I have plenty of cold weather wear for the week, may just need to pick up an umbrella either here or there for any rainage.

3 weeks out.

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