Happy fucking New Year! Goodbye 2020.
I am up at 8:00 and out at 9:00.
I lose $100 on Ultimate X video poker . Then a second $100 bill gets me 7s x 4 = $200 cash out.
I go back to my room to pack and go. I am moving to Flamingo today, and I decide to take the bus to kill some time between losses.
The bus is completely fine until the stop before mine. A homeless guy gets on, no mask. Snot dropping from his nose to his chin, it actually looks green. Not sure why he was allowed to board. I kind of want to offer him a mask but don’t want to get anywhere near him. Thankfully, I am off the bus seconds after he gets on.
I am let off kinda near Cromwell and have to walk through their (driveway? It isn’t a parking area I don’t think, not that anyone cares) to get to the Flamingo drop off area. OH DROP OFF AREA. That’s what it is called.
Cromwell Christmas tree:
I try and check into Flamingo and my room is not ready at noon. NOOOOOOOOOOO.
So I do the thing I always do on the rare occasions I cannot check in early, and lose all my money YAY. Even MY Buffalo at Linq hates me today. Come the fuck ON.
I did see a pug outside though! I chased it around trying to get a good photo. If this is YOUR pug, I was the weirdo creep chasing your dog around. Sorry, not sorry.
I end up going outside by the Flamingo entrance and sitting outside across from the cab line to smoke for a bit and play MyVegas games on my phone. Yes, this is what I want to be doing in Vegas. Finally my room is ready.
I go in and get on the Diamond Line since the Diamond check in is closed. There are kiosks but they are filled and there is some fucking douche lord blocking one, while yelling on his cell phone, with his mask on his chin, while his baby and his luggage are blocking a second one a minimum of 6 feet away. Great parenting. Also great looking out Flamingo employees.
There is a woman in the non-Diamond line who is getting very angry that people are being called before her. When it is my turn, she rushes to the desk and I am pissed off that the check in person actually helps her.
FINALLY I get my turn. I ask for a room in the Habitat Tower since that one is nearest Starbucks. I am granted my wish. My room is a bit smaller than normal, there is no Strip view. The hand soap dispenser is empty during a pandemic. But I am close to Starbucks so it evens out.
It is 2:46. Time for a nap.
I am up and out by 8:00 PM. Headed for my Buffalo at Linq.
I quit while I am ahead and go back to the room.
I have a fuckton of change so I decide to use it to buy a bottle of Diet Pepsi at the vending machine on the hotel floor. There isn’t one on my floor so I have to go up one. I put in a million nickels, this takes a bit of time to put in 60 nickels. I push the button for Diet Pepsi and get a Sierra Mist. You bastard.
Guys, you know what else? So I came super close to hitting Diamond in 2020. I was a couple of hundred points away. I thought “Oh wow cool, I can easily do that on my next trip!” And you know what I did? Somehow didn’t make the connection that I had to make it in 2020 and that I could not make it while staying here in 2021. No really, I did this.
It is 12:30 and also it is bedtime.