1. If you're wearing steel-toed boots, you can go ahead and take them off. You may think, like I did, that it's unseemly to take your shoes off while in a public airport, consider that you have to take them off anyway at the security check and consider it a way of letting security know that you pose no threat beyond the smell of your socks.

2. If you don't take your steel-toed shoes off, your ankles will hurt the next morning. You know this, yet you let it happen anyway. Moron.

3. CD cases make better pillows than do hard-cover books. Neither is great, but that's what you get for not bringing a jacket just because it's going to be hot the hole plane ride.

4. Las Vegas does, in fact, turn their slot machines sound off. Not the machines themselves, cause that might cut in to profits, but now they can profit from the mathematically challenged and desperate dregs of society in silence for those of us that wish to sleep.

5. Don't worry so much about setting off an alarm. You'll wake up every half-hour anyway during a particularly noisy item in the PSA queue.

6. If you're tired enough, none of the above matters.

7. The creases on your face will look like badass scars in the morning. Totally bad-ass.