First Things First.

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If there's one thing I fucking hate it's top 10 lists in blog posts. It's lazy and intellectually bankrupt.

TOP TEN THINGS I'M GOING TO DO WHEN I'M FINALLY ABLE TO GET BACK TO VEGAS.

1) Grin like a loon when I see the strip skyline looming up as I'm coming in in the taxi from the airport. There's no better feeling for me than looping out of McCarran and seeing that sight knowing I'm about to spend a week in Paradise.

2) Tip everyone well and often. The service peeps, drivers, valets, bartenders etc. will have had it rough over the last couple months and I'm going to take a couple extra hundy with me to make sure they know they're appreciated. Especially the ones I know.

3) Soak in the view. Wherever I end up when I get back, I intend to find the nearest strip vista point sometime on day 1, beverage in hand, and let the beauty of the strip that I haven't seen in 5+ months wash over me. A tear may be shed.

4) Hit the Cosmo. I may never be on Cosmopolitan's radar for comps and I'm certainly not in their target demographic, but I don't care, I love the place. As previously stated on this blog ad nauseum, it was the first resort I walked into on the strip and as long as it stands it will be one of my Vegas spirit animals.

5) Have the chicken strips at Twin Peaks. I'm aware the place is a chain. I'm also aware that with the scantily clad nature of the servers the food is somewhere down on the list of things drawing in males to the place. But damn if the chickie strips here aren't the best ones around. UPDATE: denied, closed.

6) Go to Fuel bar in the Bally's Bazaar Shops. When the timing is right and the crowd is into it (which is often due to the energy of the bartenders) there is no better bar atmosphere in Vegas that I've experienced. UPDATE: denied, closed temporarily?
7) Have the filet at Delmonico. Best slab of meat in Vegas. UPDATE: denied, closed temporarily.

8) Do the Sam Ross Trilogy run at Venetian/Palazzo. Just 3 of the finest cocktail lounges in Vegas, if not the world, and all within a quick 5 minute stumble of each other. Best bartenders in town for my money too. UPDATE: denied, but did 2 out of 3!

9) Play at least one hundy at a high limit machine to try to win some real money. Gambling has become almost tertiary to my Vegas trips at this point, but it sure would be nice to celebrate "the return" with a handpay.

10) Be sincerely fucking thankful. I'm going to come out of this "crisis" in a lot better position than most people, I recognize that and I don't intend to forget it on this trip. No one should take for granted the ability to have the means to spend several weeks of the year in such an amazing place as Vegas. I'm grateful that my life is in this state and I'm going to play this trip (and hopefully many, many future ones) like it may be my last.

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