It's Not A Bender, It's A Lifestyle.

2 months from Turkey Vegas. After not much hype for the last couple trips, for this one I am pining. Great resort, 6 nights, should have plenty of dosh and it'll be a solid 3 month gap between trips so I can properly hype up. I've settled into the job now and am no longer sort of engulfed by it, it's still hectic but I have carved out a niche and some boundaries which is good. My mind can wander to more important things now, like Vegas. I'll be a bit of a free agent on the trip too. I have Mlife Gold locked up for next year and have none chance to get to Platinum...ever, so I can play the field a bit more this trip. Being that I'm staying at MB I'll likely still do most coin-in there and at other MGM spots but I can try to lean into Grazie a bit and maybe see if I can snag some rooms for next year there. I've more or less given up on Cosmo, just too damn expensive for low roller like me. Wynncore also probably out of my league. No interest in CET, so that ju...

Back a week now from the Labor Day trip. Highlights (and lowlights) below. Flights: Frontier. In was great, got to airport in plenty of time, had a couple beers with a drinking buddy from R bar, then flight on time and no issues. Actually got in 20 mins early or so. Flight out was a bit of a shit show. Got loaded onto the plane on time fine, but then sat around on tarmac for an hour with various issues then had to de-plane and go to another gate to board a different plane. Altogether a couple hours late getting in, making it a really long and depressing fly out day. Had a weird pseudo-panic attack on the tarmac coming back too, for a few seconds felt claustrophobic and panicky. Was in the window seat on a full plane, dunno what it was about. It passed in about 15 seconds and I was OK the rest of the way but may need to not sit on the window anymore. Room: This was the true, real downer of the trip. The Mirage standard rooms are ghastly now. Completely run down, beat up, and awful. Was ...

Checked into room. Checked into flight. This is happening tomorrow. In 24 hours I'll be in the air to the Vegas town. Trip 4 of 2021 nearly underway, and I'm RTG. The money's out, the bag is 80% packed, just need to shave, sleep, get up, pack and half ass it through a day of work before Uber'ing to the airport. Should the flight be on time, I'll be on the ground a little after 10p and with any luck into my room and out to the strip by 11p. Ready to do this one. I'm done second guessing it, it's a more or less full trip and I'm going to maximize it. I can afford it and I'm still in my element in that town no matter the circumstances. I have enough local knowledge to make it work and it'll be fine. Plenty to do, plenty to see and I'm up for some Vegas. See ya in 4 days.