Las Vegas. I’m going, whether or not you are.

Read the title. That’s right folks, I need a motherfucking vacation.

Synopsis: Feeling overdue for a vacation, going to prowl Las Vegas 12 - 14 Sep 08. Leaving Colorado Springs on the 11th, returning on the 15th, doing the trip with Flying Horse.

I have to apologize for the tone, but this is the way I’m feeling now. I’m long overdue for a couple of days off of work, and I mean alot of them.I have 61 days of leave in the bank, and I’m going to OTS which is like boot camp x 2… ladies and gentlemen… I don’t have alot of time! I’m gonna be booked from November through February, then 1 month of specialty-specific training, then afterwards I anticipate approx 1-2 months worth of transitioning into my new job. So that puts me at… next May for availability to come home? And that’s assuming I don’t get deployed next summer.

Look, we’re friends, right? I assume that we are, you and I, because I don’t have my full name posted on this website for a reason, and I only know of two web links to this blog: one from my buddy’s web site noisewar internetlainen, and one I put up on my facebook profile just yesterday (or does the modern web vernacular refer to it as “my facebook”?). Anyway, since we’re friends, I want to let you know that I’m a little annoyed that you haven’t come to visit me in Colorado yet. I’ve climbed Pike’s Peak with my squadron, driven to the actual South Park, CO, walked around the 16th street market in Denver, and been snowboarding on some of the best snow this country has to offer, and yet people can’t make it out here to see me!

Okay, admittely this sounds like I’m crying a little, but here’s how I see it… I’m still in America! And what else, I’m not even on the east coast! When I go to bed at night, you’re probably just about to go to bed as well! When I’m eating breakfast, you’re also about to eat breakfast. Thank God my family visited me last year, otherwise I’d be telling people that *no one* visited me while I was stationed in CO.

Admittedly… I wouldn’t be able to host you if you came over. My apartment has one bed, for me. One sofa, recently acquired… one lawnchair, a dining set, a decent entertainment center-slash-computer, a single bowl for me to eat cereal, a single mug for me to drink coffee out of my single-serve brewer… yeah. I’d be a bad host. So… maybe it were better you didn’t come over these past few years, haha.

Ah well. I think the root of all this “come see me” business–the truth of the matter–is that as much of an awesome time I’m having out here, when I’m at home from work, I wish I were at home in Los Angeles, having dinner with my mom and dad in the evening, and hanging out with you guys on the weekends. This feeling has been more intense as of late, as all of my military friends have left the area pretty much all at the same time (SSgt DLW, SSgt DAB, SrA DJR, SSgt GAF, and my miltary brother SrA CES) as is bound to happen in this line of work. Had I not applied to OTS I’d most likely be writing you from Korea right about now.

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Ah geez… so there I go again. Las Vegas… I’m going, whether or not you are. Specifically, I’m going on the weekend of the 12th to the 14th. I’m taking leave, and I’m getting a room now. I need to do this, I need a few days to get away from work and just play some games, drink some drinks, chat up some girls without abandon, lie my ass off, and generally just be all the things I normally am not in my real life. I even thought about visiting one of those legal brothels as well, but truth be told the prospect of spending $400 for an hour with a person who regards sex as business just doesn’t seem that appealing to me. Don’t get me wrong, if I ever for some reason couldn’t take care of the job myself and absolutely had to have that kind of professional assistance, I’d go to NV to be serviced, but for now that just seems like something I’d most likely not/never do. I think I would have the most fun if you, reader, came with me. You most likely know my email address and/or phone number, or even got here via facebook, so I won’t bother posting those here.

Hmm… I just had an idea… I should come up with a bunch of objectives for potential trip-goers. Aww shit… idea flood. I better stop writing this post now before I lose some of these. OUT!

P.S.: 12 SEP happens to be my birthday, so you better be there. Or I’m coming to your house and knifing your pets. *evil eye*