On the road again: Las Vegas, day 1

I slept two and a half hours (with one wake-up, alas), then began the travel day. The trip involved a single, non-stop flight, so the transit time was as small as it reasonably could be. So, too, unfortunately, was the plane's interior, so I spent the flight with my shoulders rolled inward.

We're here for fun, though I still must do some work each day. A big part of the fun is a daily show, most of them Cirque du Soleil productions. To make attending them easier, a few of us went out in the late afternoon to stand in will-call lines and pick up the tickets I'd purchased previously. We walked from the Venetian to the Mirage to the Bellagio, then gave in and took a cab to the Luxor. If you don't know Las Vegas, that may not seem like much, but it actually was quite a lot walking; you can walk two blocks or more just getting from the front of a single casino building to its rear.

I'm getting very antsy at not yet writing Children No More, but I'm still not ready. I will hope to be so within a few weeks.

I've slept less than five hours total in the last two nights, so I'm going to cut this short before I do something stupid and start talking about roach gods or lizard experiments or any of those other awful and yet funny things from my past. Yeah, it's definitely time to stop this one. Off to sleep I go!