tickets purchaced
Oct. 30th, 2009 02:16 pmI've just spent a very frustrating hour on the web page trying to book flights to the US for the conference in December. I found reasonably priced tickets that would let me fly to San Franscisco on time for the Boars Hunt event the weekend of 12 Dec, and then return to Milan the first Wednesday in January (so that I can attend a new-years Bardic in Oertha, for the first time in years; I still need to book flights to Seattle and Alaska in between the conference and my return, but not today, I'm tired of dealing with airline web pages). However, every time I got to the final step to pay for the tickets I got a "unable to process your request" error message. Eventually, the process went on so long that the price of the tickets I had intended to purchase had gone up by 60 Euros. In anger and frustration, I checked the prices for returning a week later (in other words, able to attend 12th Night in the West). It turns out that the tickets were nearly 200 euros cheaper than the ones I'd been trying to purchase. So, I clicked on that flight, and, much to my surprise, it worked. This means that I will be gone from Milan for a full month--leaving here on 11 December, and returning on 12 January! I had so better get *lots* of writing and data analysis done during that period, since I won't be here generating new data.
tafelspitz, do you and your lovely lady have room for me to stay during the conference? The dates would be Sunday evening the 13th through Friday morning the 18th of December. I could bring something from Milano, if you tell me what you'd want.
corva, want to meet me at Boar's Hunt and keep me for that Sunday, sending me off to the city in the evening?
Anyone want to share a room at 12th Night? Anyone convenient to SFO have room for me on Sunday night after 12th Night? I fly out at 07:35 on Monday morning. I'm willing to do public transit to get to the airport, if I can find some place to crash that works well for that.
Alaskans: Who wants to see me, when? I haven't purchased those flights yet, so am still flexible as to when, exactly, I'm up there. Please tell me someone is hosting a New Years Bardic this year!
Seattle folk: ditto; I need to stop in and see mom and family, so anyone wanting to also see me, let me know what your schedule is like. But my main focus this time will be Alaska, since I did Seattle in June/July.
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Anyone want to share a room at 12th Night? Anyone convenient to SFO have room for me on Sunday night after 12th Night? I fly out at 07:35 on Monday morning. I'm willing to do public transit to get to the airport, if I can find some place to crash that works well for that.
Alaskans: Who wants to see me, when? I haven't purchased those flights yet, so am still flexible as to when, exactly, I'm up there. Please tell me someone is hosting a New Years Bardic this year!
Seattle folk: ditto; I need to stop in and see mom and family, so anyone wanting to also see me, let me know what your schedule is like. But my main focus this time will be Alaska, since I did Seattle in June/July.