After falling off the blogging wagon a bit I’ve committed myself to updating at least every 4 days no matter what.  But the next 4 days are going to be pretty busy so I’m updating now.  Unfortunately my focus is decidedly  un-tech right now.

That’s because tonight I’m headed to the opening of Crystals at CityCenter.  For those not familiar CityCenter is a huge complex located on the Las Vegas Strip.  Once the construction is finished it will include a “City in a City” with several resorts, casinos and a shopping mall (Crystals is the shopping center and the first real component of CityCenter to open to the general public)

If you can’t already tell, I’m a bit obsessed with the project.

You see, CityCenter will also feature actual condos that are billed as “having all the amenities of a Las Vegas Hotel” (along with VIP access to the actual MGM Hotel and Casino).  The moment I heard that I wanted one.  Badly.

It is quite literally the stupidest idea I’ve ever had.  It would take every cent I’ve got AND I’d have to either move there or pay a huge sum of money for a Condo I don’t live in.  Beyond that I’d have to give up my job and start consulting full time (or find some other high paying vocation).  All for a living space less than half the size of where I live now.

But I REALLY want to do it.  I grew up in the government funded housing of Las Vegas (a.k.a. “The Projects” in TV vernacular).  This creates an odd situation because I love the city of Las Vegas but actually couldn’t go back to living anywhere near my childhood home even if I wanted to.  Living in a Condo actually located on the Strip would be perfect.

Anyway the chance to live in one is thankfully still in the future so for right now I’ll content myself with sign seeing in the shopping mall (along with a late Dinner with some old friends).