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Long but fun day yesterday. Spent the majority of the day just hanging out. I took a walk down the strip around 9. I was planning on finding this one store I haven't been to in years but it ended up being too far away to walk as they moved locations. No big deal, but I was hoping to stop in there. I could go this morning if I really wanted to but it's not that big of a deal. Instead I ended up at Caesar's and the shops there. I went into Vosges and got gifts for the kid and B. Vosges has the best chocolate in the world in my opinion. I got the kid a collection of bacon related bars and for B Hunger Games chocolate. She isn't a huge chocolate fan, but she loves her hunger games. Got back to the hotel around 11 and had some lunch. Had an incredible pork sandwich with truffled parmesan fries and an "Elvis" milkshake - whiskey with peanut butter and banana. The cornerstone of any nutritious meal right? Headed back to the room, answered a few emails, then took a short nap. I had booth duty last night and got ready around 4. Headed over to the show to meet my coworker around 5 to get his badge. Him and I are splitting a badge. Got his badge and was in the booth around 5:30. The booth time was fun except for one small incident. Turns out there is one client we told I would be working on site for them, but because of scheduling I couldn't do it. Since I already had a laptop and credentials they used a different guy but he is using my name and login. We never told the client about the switch. This person showed up at the booth and I had to hide away from them. Which I personally thought was crap and I called my boos out on it. He said if it came up at dinner he would admit what happened. Whatever. Still a fucked up thing to do to both me and the client. Some of my students came by the booth to explicitly meet with me which was fun. Made me feel like the rockstar I am. After we shut down the booth around 7, the five of us at the booth headed out together for dinner. The five of us represent the cream of the company. We have all been around for 7-10 years and have known the founders from 10+ years on average. We ended up at a sushi place after a few failed attempts at finding room somewhere. Somehow through some trick I am not aware of myself, I managed to get us a private room off the main dining room. We then proceeded to eat and drink for the next 2 1/2 hours. We went through three rounds of sushi, two bottles of sake, multiple beers, and a bottle of prosseco for dessert. Total damage with tip? $550. Luckily we were all drunk enough we laughed at the bill. One of the other guys put it on his corporate card. I am sure we will all get a tongue lashing today for it, but fuck it. It was fun and we deserved a good time. Got back to the room a little after 10 and talked with B for about an hour. Climbed into bed around 11ish and slept like a log.

Today I have booth duty from 12-7 then nothing planned for tonight. I think I will have a quiet night alone here at the hotel. Maybe a steak for dinner.