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So there's this little-known game that Wonderful Husband and I enjoy playing. It's called Minecraft. Perhaps you've heard of it? And it's a rare thing for me to enjoy video games. The last two I enjoyed playing were Oregon Trails, and Tetris. (Yes, totally dating myself and revealing my geek-retard status. Shut up.)

Then there's this little thing called MineCon (AKA "join Notch on his vacation") which is in a couple months, in Las Vegas. Which is... not too far from us, actually. And $99 for a two day convention... isn't too bad, actually. Except for where that would be times two. Plus hotel. Plus food. Plus transportation (either a godawful long drive, or a pair of roundtrip plane tickets). In Vegas. Where quite probably the only thing I might enjoy would be catching a Cirque du Soleil show (more money), since I've never enjoyed gambling, and everything in Sin City (at least the last time I went) smells of cigarette smoke. I suppose there's always the option of getting my geek on by seeing if I could do a tour of the Hoover Dam, not too far away....

But I do my mental math and add up time and money and energy and decide I can't afford MineCon.

Even if Wonderful Husband has been mining lots of diamonds recently.