Air Booked

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Flight booked for the Vegas April.

Got a good deal on Alaska, $150 round trip. 7:20p flight out of SFO on the 20th, so can just leave work around 4p and be at the airport in plenty of time and not lose any PTO. A pretty much perfect out time of 1:20p on the 25th, to be back home by around 3p. Can just check out of the room at the normal time and head straight to LAS.

I looked at JSX again but they would be over $500 for the same trip and logistically it'd be a bitch to make it all the way over to OAK to get on that flight. This way I can just leave the car in the work lot and not have to worry about paying for parking, then head to SFO on the fly-in day on Uber and be there in no time.

I won't have to do a painful save on this trip as I had hoped, today I cashed out my 401k from KitRo and should have a little over $6K coming in time for go time. It will leave me, again, with no retirement savings for the future but heh, FUTURE, right?

So this looks like the first trip of 2023 is really going to happen, finally. It's been a chaotic Q1 of this year but hopefully things will settle down and we can get back to some sense of normalcy now, work and Vegas-wise.

T-minus 43 days.

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