No blogging for the next few days as my sweetie and I take a well-deserved weekend in Vegas to relax, veg out, and see The Beach Boys 50th anniversary tour stop at the Red Rock Casino. As a result of my first “senior moment”, we’ll be driving up as I neglected to book flights. The whole thing is very strange, but I think what happened is that, this being on the cusp of Memorial Day weekend, after seeing how astronomical the fares were I figured I needed to do some serious sit-down work to find something fairly reasonable, then forgot all about it. But that’s OK – the car rental is less than the cost of a single air ticket, and, when it comes to Vegas, the less time spent there the cheaper the vacation. So, Thursday and Monday are travel days and Friday-Sunday are the fun days.

Don’t think just because the 2012 Goodboys Invitational weekend is still the better part of two months away that golf preparation isn’t on my mind. I have a tee time at beautiful Las Vegas National and how I play there will either give me confidence that the latest changes I’ve made to my setup and address (I’m not sayin’) are the right way to go, or prepare me for a “siege mentality” where I know I’m just gonna have to fight my way through Goodboys weekend. I’m hoping for the former.

Anyways, you can’t lose going to Vegas, baby. Next to New Orleans it’s my favorite choice for a weekend away from the usual crap. And staying at Wynn, you know you’re going to be treated right. They were very understanding last September when we had to cut our planned anniversary tgrip short because of my brother Mark’s passing, not charging us for our last planned night’s stay, and I’m a firm believer in taking care of the businesses that take care of you.

I know a few Goodboys who would love to be meeting us in “Sin City”, I’ll just have to drink a couple-two-three toasts in their honor.