Oh For Fuck's Sake, I'm A Fucking Idiot.

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Literally what is wrong with me. 

I booked a 4 night stay over LDW for next week. I kept telling myself since coming back from the July trip...NO, be responsible, save your money, it's too much for the flight, you don't like going over holiday weekends in the summer...

Fuck.

Booked the Mirage for 4 nights. 3 of them comped, all in with fees and late check out still just over $400. Really good rate for a holiday weekend and the only reason I'm going, really. Every other rooms outlet but Mlife is astronomical. Could have done NYNY, MGM or Luxor for about the same money, but of those the location up north of Mirage is the best bet for that weekend.

Flights are not the best in terms of airline or times, but booking this late it was the best I could do. Frontier in and out, in late Thursday night and out at 4:45p on Monday, which is liable to be a circus at the airport on Labor Day, but I'll just get the airport super early and take my chances. At least it gives me 3 full days to do my thing and not be up early on the fly out.

Ultimately it's always preferable to be in Vegas when I can as opposed to sitting around on a 4-day weekend in my underwear. I can afford it, and I'm sure it'll be the normal share of fun, but there's going to have to be some serious planning this coming week to strategize the avoiding of the plague of holiday weekend humanity that will be there. The plan post upcoming will be a doozy.

In the eloquent words of Shakespeare, "dude, I'm a fucking dumbass". And he's not wrong.

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