Less than 48 Hours to Go

For all intents and purposes, I need to be ready to leave before I hit the sack Thursday night. My 8:30am flight means I need to be at the airport at 6:30am. This means I should leave my place by 5:45am, which means I need to be up no later than 5am. Assuming I want to be at least functional enough to drive and board an international flight, I'll need 4 hours of sleep at minimum, but more is always better. So 1:00am Friday is when I need to be ready to go.

So between now and then - haircut, laundry for work and trip, making sure I have the necessities for 48hrs in Vegas, take out more US cash, pack, gather necessary information, tidy up the place (because who wants to come home to a mess?),make sure my buddy is still available to feed the cats and then show him where everything is, and toss in a few responsibilites for a couple friends who are out of town. I'll probably start all this about 8pm Thursday.

Now where'd I put my Venetian card? And my MGM/Mirage card? and my Boyd card? Okay, I don't give a shit about the Boyd card.

Plans are simple enough - get in, get car, drop shit off, hit strip. My timing sucks for the Venetian deepstack, as I'm not about to drop $2,500 for Friday's game or sit through HORSE on Saturday. Any OTHER weekend and the buy-ins and games are more my level. Cash games it is! Unless there are some other decent NLHE tourneys going on this weekend. *EDIT: Looks the like Caesar's Megastack $300 + $30 + $10 for 12,500 chips is the place to be on Saturday! If it goes 2 days and I'm still miraculously alive, I'll just have to move my flight home to the redeye on Sunday.

Rumours of brunch on Saturday sound good. And I'm hoping I can roll some dice with Bayne before he departs. Although I'm sure all the time in between will be filled with laughs, the odd drink (rental car = no drunkeness), and good times all around... perhaps even a swim. I expect to have no more than 6 hours of sleep during my brief time there.. with 3 being a more likely number.

Viva Las Vegas!