Going. Soon.

So, after all that bullshit, I'm going to Vegas for Xmas, and it will probably be most of a normal trip.

Or as normal as a Vegas trip can be in this fucked up year of doom. I will be willfully ignoring our state's governor (and the City's mayor) and boarding a plane in 4 days for my happy place. I'll be staying in 2 beautiful resorts, right next to each other (The Two Towers?), and going by the Turkey trip as a guide it'll be fairly normal-ish for an Xmas trip, mellow but that's always the case for Xmas trips and that's one of the reasons I love them.

Hearing that hotel occupancy will be exceedingly low, somewhere around 5% even which seems crazy but that doesn't count all the peeps who may drive in for a day or two just to gamble and hang out. I may end up being the one and only at a lot of bars, but as long as they are open that doesn't bother me a bit. Some of my standbys like Fuel with tiny capacity will probably not be doable, especially since I'm rolling solo and wouldn't want to take up a table, but that's a small price to pay to not be in my hobbit hole for the whole week.

Lot of food reservations on the trip. One for each day's lunch and dinner which I wouldn't normally do, but as they are required at least I'm covering my ass, and many of the lunch rezzys are with some sort of discount, either Restaurant.com or Yardhouse GC. So at least I'll not be spending a shit ton and it's good to make sure I'm eating and not just drinking, which I've been known to often do in Vegas. No other plans as there are no shows or other entertainments to be had. It'll be an eat/drink/gamble trip.

Playing the trip close to the vest at work, making it sound as if I'm probably NOT going just so if any quarantine restrictions pop up while I'm gone I can have plausible deniability. If anyone asks I'm just saying it'll be a "game time decision", which...the decision's been made but again, close to the vest. I am leaving my car in the garage at work but can just say I did so to avoid having to move it for parking during that week. Being selective with the truth is something I'm good at and am employing it here as a just in case.

Got my teeth cleaned yesterday, will have a fresh, sparkly smile...under my mask. Pulled $2K out of the bank and will pull the rest Friday after work when the regular check and bonus drop in. Bonus came in on time and more or less as expected, though they taxed the fuck out of it. The normally painful Xmas trip save was pretty painless this time due to all the added bonus funds the last few weeks. Will comfortably have the $5200 for the cash save and a little more "waiting at the airport glass of wine" money, hopefully some of that will make it back into the account the week after. Bills are paid for the month so even if I'm skint on return I won't be eating ramen and marshmallows. 

So, that's about the end all be all. Maybe one quick check in before I go if anything interesting comes up but aside from that you'll hear from me on the post-mortem.