Tomorrow, Ya Bish.

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By this time tomorrow I'll be sitting around SFO waiting to get on an airplane to the Vegas.

Everything is ready. Money out of the bank, laundry done, devices charging, playlist completed, just need to get a good night's sleep tonight, dump the car at the work garage in the morning, catch an Uber to SFO and go go go.

A last minute travel embargo placed by the City will not be enforced in any way and is therefore meaningless, but it gave me a palpitation when I read about it. I'm not concerned about my health traveling there. I feel at least as safe in Vegas as I do here, maybe even more so. The resorts are no joke about enforcing mask/distancing now. In terms of people, I expect it to be pretty damn dead. It always is for Xmas week, but this may be half again deader. The wildcard will be what the foreign contingent does. The strip is usually little Pakistan/India during Xmas week, but if they are not able to fly in it could be truly a ghost town, which I really don't mind. More bar seats for me.

I expect something similar to Thanksgiving, dead but still fun enough to make it worth the trip and expense, and again, it's a far sight better than sitting around here in my grungy undies watching Lord Of The Rings for the 50th time. 9 days of that might end me. This keeps the streak of 7 straight December trips spent in Vegas and I see no reason to break that streak anytime soon.

So, that's it then. I'll talk to all 1.5 of you who read this in a week. Boo yah.

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