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

Depravity. Exactly 2 weeks back from Vegas, and I'm going again. Tomorrow. I'm such a fucktard. Taking advantage of the long weekend and squeezing in a 4 night trip. In to town tomorrow around 9p, the out fuck-early on Tuesday to hopefully make it in to work roughly on time, assuming no flight issues. 6a flight. Ouch, but will just try to get to bed by 11p or so so I can get at least a few hours of sleep. When it came down to it, I have the extra cash in the bank from the last trip, I get paid tonight and have already paid off the CC for this month, so I can afford the roughly $3500 I'm going to pull out. Assuming I come back with what the little birdy left on the rock, that still leaves me with $4K in the bank and 3 full months to build up the cushion. Is what I'm doing fiscally prudent? No. But when it comes to Vegas I've never been prudent in any way. Delano will be the resort of choice. Full comp, all 4 nights, even over a weekend. I finally will stay here, aft...

PTO approved for the April trip. It's a done deal, folks. 8 billion light years away, but already looking forward to this one. Sat-Fri at Mandalay Bay. In a Resort King Strip View with 4 comped nights, but now with MGM Rewards promising "premium upgrades", hopefully I can sneak into an Elite King or at least a high floor. Also will be getting resort fees knocked off with the new program so all-in for the room for 6 nights should only be around $300. Could have had 3 nights comped at Venetian too but I don't want to move resorts on this trip, I only want to pack/unpack once. Couple that with the $40 FP and $50 RC and MGM is a no-brainer again. As detailed in the last post, good flight times and a non-horrid airline so all should be well on that front. I've been doing nothing but over-weekend trips since last year so it'll be good to shed the crowds a bit and be able to move more freely. Some stuff might be closed M-W but I can always find something to do in th...

Locked in for the air on the April trip. Went with Alaska. $167 round trip but that's an upgrade from dead economy with seat selection and earlier boarding. Got the best seat I could at that level on both flights so should have no issues with overhead space or getting on and off. And it's in and out of SFO with good times both ways, no stupid early or late flights. I can also change or cancel the flight should something weird happen between now and then. I'll be in town around 8pa on the check in day, so time to get to MB, drop the bags and have maybe a little dinner before getting the serious drinking started. Then the out flight will be at around 3p so again, should be able to just check out and head straight to the airport. Bit of a wait when there but fuck if I'm not used to that. Just waiting on my boss to approve the TO which I don't see any issues with, then we can lay back and relax for a couple months while knowing a trip is on the horizon. Always a good fe...

A fine trip. As usual with these now, some headlined highlights. The Flights: Not really through any of Allegiant's fault, the flight in was fucked up by its lateness and OAKness. Didn't get off the ground until nearly 11p and not out of the room to have some fun until 1a. Regardless of how much I think I'm saving I cannot do flights that late anymore. It just reduces the first night to zero fun. Flight out on Southwest was 2 hours late getting off the ground. Shitty waiting around in the airport for 4 hours under any circumstances, but even worse when it's fly out day and all you want to do is just get home and rest. Note to self, pay the extra damn money for the good flight times and SFO. The Rooms: The Conrad at Resorts World was 90% of a good stay. Got to choose the room ahead of time which was good, got a high floor away from the elevator as is my wont. Check in line when getting there was a little long for 12:30a on a Thursday but got through it quickly enough. Ro...

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...