I have checked fares every day for 3 months. They have been remarkably consistent. Actually, as a geek, I can say they have never been this consistent. As the price of oil dropped I hoped the fares would drop and they did but only about $80. If were paid a dollar per hour for checking fares I would lose money.
Anyhow, the ticket has been purchased and I headed to Germany on August 7. I will spend 8 glorious days trying to find anyone who has met a relative of my family and I will be back in CR on August 15.
I was home last summer, Christmas, and spring break. After three trips home in one year I am shocked that booking the ticket has given such an adrenalin high. I have a quiz to write! I am in no mood to write a quiz!
The roll of the dice: I will be in Iowa until Tuesday, September 4, arriving here late on September 5. I *cough* was supposed to report to work on Monday, September 3. I said to my boss, "Really? Leave during Labor Day weekend?" He lived in the US for 20 years so he knows it is our last major holiday of summer so he said, "I don't care, but I'm not the university. So if anyone there cares you might lose some pay."
Let's hope I don't.
I'm going home! I'm going home!
As a M*A*S*H fan all I can think is Colonel Henry Blake saying the same thing. I'm gonna be optimistic and expect that the North Koreans won't shoot my plane out of the sky.
