It's The Month Before Vegas Month...Month.

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I know. Lame reason for a post but I'm not going to rack up page views any other way. I'm trying to get to 3 views on this one!

But hey - August! No changes to report. Everything is locked in and I don't expect any changes. There would have to be a mind-blowing discount on something at Priceline or the bottom to fall out of rates for V/P or Wynn for me to change up the great rate locked in at Aria. Can't possibly add any more events or reservations than I have, without removing all freedom from the week.

So now it's the slightly excruciating countdown. As it gets inside 45 days or so, as I am, a long-gap trip like this starts to fill my head daily. Going to start pumping a little VP practice now, not 100 hands a day yet or anything like when I get to September but 50 hands or so every few days just to get the feel again.

I drunkenly lost my MGM CC this past weekend, so it'll be a week until the new one arrives. That'll ding the accumulation of rewards points a bit but probably only by a few bucks worth of Freeplay, really. I'm not too worried about making Gold now with 5 more months of earning on the card and 2 trips ahead of me. Hell if I come back something like even for the trip I may even try to squeeze a quickie trip in somewhere in October or maybe Thanksgiving again like last year. I'll get to Gold.

So yeah. Here's to hoping August rolls by quickly and peacefully and we can jump into the trip next month in a place of happy.

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