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

Whelp, by this time tomorrow I will be at the airport 3 beers in watching the Niners and getting ready to fuck off to Vegas. Already checked into the room, a really cool thing at RW, they allow you to select your room - I got the 2nd from the top floor and was able to get a corner room so only one potential noisy neighbor. Should be a pretty spectacular strip view up that high. Have never been able to do that with any other resort, that early and that specific on the room. May be a factor to keep me coming back. The flight, should it be on time (fingers and toes crossed) ought be a breeze. I'm in the 3rd row and have priority boarding, so there shouldn't be any fuckery with the bag. I think the key to flying a crap airline like Allegiant is just to knuckle under and pay for all the "conveniences" then hope beyond hope that they'll be on time. I will gladly trade dollars for ease and convenience. As it is, even if all goes perfectly I won't be in to town before...

T-minus 4 days to the Vegas. Wrapping up one last not quite full week then out the door for 5 full days of Xmas vacation. Giving myself the option of maybe staying one more day, I don't have to be back at work until the 3rd so I could stay for the 29th and fly home on the 30th, but don't want to push it any further than that since then I would be bumping up against the NYE fuckery. I'll bring enough clothes and medicine to do the extra day, would just have to blow off the flight home and book a flight and room for Thursday. If I'm in good enough financial and physical shape I may do it, otherwise will just stick to the original plan. Getting to OAK for the flight out will be easy, no time pressure since it's such a late flight so I will just leave work about an hour early, come home, shower, then head to BART for the airport. There's a Niner game and a Dubs game that night so I can just post up in the airport bar and watch those to pass the time to the flight. ...

T-minus 1 week to the last Vegas of 2021. The last of six trips. What a year it's been. Job change, hefty pay raise in the doing, getting completely out of debt, meeting and marrying my beautiful model wife. OK maybe not that last part. But it was a positive one. The job is going great. I feel like I'm a valued member of the team, I trained or hired two good team members, the ops team is a tight running ship that is probably the fittest part of the whole company right now. All the seemingly menial skills I picked up in all those crap warehouse and inventory jobs have finally paid off and have me in great position with a company that could be a rocket ship. The downside: doesn't look like I'm getting any kind of bonus this year. Would have been helpful with how low the savings is now, but... The finances are OK, I've Vegas'ed most of the nest egg I had when I left TFS but I plan to take a few months off of the Vegas train in early '22 to build it back up. A r...

Not much going on this time, aside from the rooms, but here we GO. -6 nights at the Conrad in a Strip View room - $897 all in, would be $1433 booking direct. Saves $536 -$77 in Express Comps for use at MGM joints. Value $77. -Flight in on Allegiant, round trip cost me $100 with travel vouchers, would be $310 without, saves $210. All in all a saving of $823 over what I would have paid as a Vegas normie. Probably one of the smaller savings packages for me ever but I'm going out with a bang room-wise. Anyway that's $800 more doll hairs to throw away in slot machines! Or whores. But probably slot machines. 10 days to Paradise.  

Already inside of 3 weeks to the Vegas, again. Not going to break down a day by day plan post this time as I have almost nothing "planned", and ain't nobody got time for that anyway. Some generalities... Fly-in night will be a short one. Even if all goes according to plan on Xmas eve eve, (highly unlikely with Allegiant), I won't be on the ground until 11:30p. It'll be a stay-in evening, probably just down to the RW resort floor for a couple hundy of VP and some drinks, and maybe a snack before bed. The sole goal for the night is to get in, get unpacked at Conrad and get situated for the 5 full days coming. For the rest of the trip it's just me doing me, Vegas-style. Drankin', foodin', skirt-chasin'. I do have one reservation at on Xmas night, Kasa Nori at RW. Should be an easy do since it's on-resort, then I can maybe do one other splurge-ish meal at an MGM spot that can soak up the Resort Credits. Still have about $75 left in them.  Outside o...

A week back from Turkey Vegas. Highlights: Flights: United. Flight in fine and ahead of time, no issues. Flight back I had to check my bag which added the better part of an hour to the fly out day. Was pretty tough getting up early on that fly out morning too, 10a is really too early for an out flight. Earbuds performed well on the trip and were easier to use than the JBL's. Room: Mandalay Bay standard room was fine. Had yet another in-room safe snafu that wasted some of my time the first morning but other than that no issues. Room was clean and well-maintained and housekeeping was on point. Had a high floor and view of Allegiant. Resort: Figured it was going to be pretty mellow at MB for the holiday but it was actually pretty busy Thursday to Saturday. Couldn't even get into Mlife line to load Freeplay until Sunday the line was so damn long every day. They've gotten rid of the desks and moved everything to the cage. Spent quite a bit of time, especially at night winding do...

Last couple days left before the Turkey Vegas trip. Pretty much ready to go. The money's pulled out of the bank, the carry-on is 80% packed, the laundry's done, just need to sleepwalk through another day and a half of work then head to the airport Tuesday afternoon. The weather looks like it's going to cooperate, mid 60's to low 70's days and chilly but manageable nights. Going to leave the jacket home and just take my golf pullovers. May be a bit chilly late into the nights but I should have a beer blanket on by then so no worries. Got my new Pixel Buds in time for the trip, they don't sound as good as the JBL's but they're a lot easier to lug around so they will come with me. They pair with the iPad so no worries there. Those along with the new 6 Pro and I'm well kitted out for the trip. Did a decent Vegas playlist, nothing themed just a bunch of good instrumental songs.  Looking forward to Mandalay Bay, should be a nice relaxed holiday vibe. It...