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Not sure if it was an actual bucket item list or not, but I can cross off seeing both a "vegas show" and seeing Britney Spears. Notice the overall lack of enthusiasm. I will come back to this. For the record I am on about 4.5 hours sleep. Fun.

Okay, so in the morning I had official booth duty. It was my one day for it. I am scheduled for 7-8:30 with 2 other people. I get there and of course I am the only one in the booth until almost 8. Without a scanner. Fun. When the sales people finally do show up they're all ha ha about it and I am like no, do your fucking job. Whatever.

I went to three sessions yesterday. One was REALLY useful and good. One was factual and helped bolster my technical skills. One I walked right out of. Why? Because EA decided to send two Indian (important in this context) developers to speak. The problem is both had SUPER heavy accents and they were developers. No communication skills at all. They read off their screens. I wasn't the only one walking out. At least 20% had left by the time I did and I stuck with it for a good 15 minutes. Really bad.

I headed back to the hotel around 4 to find B a blubbering mess. Why? The fucking noise from the pool behind us escalated. I had to go down to the front desk, and even with only 3 days left here, ask they change our room. We are moving to another tower today. Hopefully it will be better. Because of that, we spent the next hour packing so she can quickly change to another room.

Around 6 we went to Bubba Gump for dinner. It was okay. Not as good as our normal Bubba Gump experiences. Then we walked around the shops until it was time for the concert. We went in around 8:20 as it was scheduled to start at 9. Also let me retract that word 'concert' and replace it with 'show'. There is and was a difference.

It finally started around 9:20. Overall it was okay. The people around us were annoying and blocking my view of most stuff, but whatever. This to me wasn't a concert. It was a part lip-synched, stage show. That kept throwing me off. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. It was good and all, just different than what I expected to see. About 15 songs in her playlist. We got out of there around 11.

Got back to the hotel and finally got in bed after midnight.

Last full day of the show today. I have three sessions and then booth breakdown. It doesn't look like I will get in for testing tomorrow so I should have another free day. I tried changing our flights but it was just too expensive. Oh well.