Oh, the drama of online airline ticket purchase. We shopped around for the best deal to Krakow yesterday and booked the flight, but then last night some woman with a heavy accent called and said there was a problem with one of the flights and wanted to rebook it for $1000 more. !!
While I was on the phone with her, B was on the phone with her supervisor, and we were BOTH online looking at other options. We found a much cheaper flight even than the original one (with a different online service), and booked THAT, and cancelled the first series altogether. I have a confirmation on the second series - but now I'm a little worried that there will be problems with it as well. And we still don't have e-confirmation of the cancellation.
In the middle of all this B spilled a drink into his UPS and the B2 computer went down, taking the network (and hence my internet and email) with it. We had been in the middle of watching a German documentary on Andy Warhol ("Absolut Warhola") in which the filmmakers went to his village of origin in Ruthenia (now part of Slovakia?) and chatted up his relatives. Their idea of technology is TV - they get one channel. Makes you wonder how we would fare without all the technology we've grown accustomed to. Technology allows you to have more options, and to do more things at the last minute, but it's all in what you get used to. If I'd had to decide about Krakow back in May and then work with a travel agent to book the flights, well, then that's what would have happened.
I leave in two weeks. More on my separation anxiety and general fears about being in a foreign country to come. Now, we are off to see if the Midtown Market really is open Sunday mornings, as the website promises.
Posted by otto0114 at July 10, 2005 10:10 AM