Next, And Help.

 

Getting a grand back from taxes this year.

Made more money and went up in tax % but somehow a better refund than last year. Meh. That'll certainly help for Birthday Vegas, which, inevitably, for good or ill, is coming. It'll be a shorty, just flying on the Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, flying out on the following Monday. Max 5 full days on the ground. So if I can only put $4K together by then, that's fine. With the tax refund that gives me 6 checks to stack as much paper as possible by fly out.

Currently have a soft rezzie for NYNY on that date which would cost me about $30 with 4 comped nights and no resort fee, but we'll see what the offers look like after February breaks. The NYNY package has $150 of RC/FP value which is less for my current offers, so I might just stick with it. Also have a $100 RC bump from retaining Gold, so at least a couple good meals to be subsidized. I do tend to go a little more baller on rooms for birthdays though, so we'll see. Don't know how many of them I have left, after all.

Flight are minimum $170-ish right now, so will just keep an eye out for a while. No rush, but will pounce on anything under $150 probably. Another option is driving. I do have a new, shiny, fast car, for fuck's sake. It would be less expensive than $40 Uber to SFO, $200 flight, $40 taxi to resort, $40 back to LAS and $40 home from SFO. It's like $350 min. Instead, you figure what, $200 max for gas there and back, 3 fill ups? Could leave after work on the Tuesday and be there by maybe 10p-ish. Possible. Unless a really good flight number comes through in the next couple weeks I may do that.

The Xmas hangover is starting to wear off, and as always Vegas is seen through rose glasses after a month or so of separation. It's kinda like an abusive spouse. Gotta start planning to back for my beating.