Look What You Made Me Do, Gov. Sisolak. LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO.

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Thanks Governor Sisolak. Thanks.

Your continued, ridiculous closure of all bars in Clark county has forced me to this. You've forced me to spend $50 on a flask. Instead of spending wild amounts of cash in your state's many fine drinking establishments, I'm compelled to drink luke-warm vodka out of a flask. Rather than openly enjoying beautiful cocktails on sanitized bar tops, I will now be reaching next my ass to sneak furtive swigs from a hip flask, that I really don't want to have to carry. Great leadership, Guv.

The lawsuit that bar owners raised in NV to overturn Sisolak's closure was spanked down by a judge, so there's no more hope that I will see a bar top Saturday, or for any day of the trip. So the flask is a cope. If I have trouble finding spots to get my drink on this will hopefully bridge the gaps.

It's a nice flask, because why cheap out on such a thing. I couldn't see paying $75+ for an English pewter flask, but this one is all-titanium and looks quality. Was looking at an insulated one to keep the Belvedere chilly but it would have been too bulky, and no way I'm carrying a Yeti type thing around all day. This is pocketable and can carry 6 3/4 oz of the good stuff. That's around 5 shots.

I lost or threw away my old cheapy flask, so it was time for a new one anyway. Could be useful for my bar hopping Saturdays here in the City, assuming they ever come back again. In any case a man should own a good flask. So checking off that box.

So the first order of business after checking in on Saturday will be to run across the street to CVS and get liquored up with a bottle of Belvy and some mixers. That should last me the trip, serving morning "wakey wakey" cocktails and then filling the flask daily once or twice. Maybe I won't end up using it all that much, but it's good insurance to bring along anyway.

4 days. Fuck you, Governor Sisolak.


 

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