Nov ’07 9
- Just looked outside to see it is snowing outside here in Minnesota. #
- Flurries stopped at some point this morning. My first taste of winter. #
- What is so difficult about putting a phone on vibrate? #
- You know you’re in the upper midwest when you see cribbage boards in the lunch room. #
- The Minneapolis airport makes Lambert in St. Louis seem like even more of a dump than it is. #
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Nov ’07 8
- Very tired. Pager woke me up @ 2am to expand full server volume. Collen woke K because he doesn’t like the pager beeping and tried 2 hide. #
- Walked off the plane, bathroom, then right to baggage claim where my bag was already waiting for me. Why can’t Lambert do this? #
- Hmmmm, seem to be the only person wearing Packers green and gold here at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. So far the natives are friendly. #
- Barbecue for lunch, and I managed to avoid getting any sauce on my shirt. The way this week has gone, even tiny accomplishments seem big. #
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Nov ’07 7
- Just received my flu shot. Good for another flu season. #
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Nov ’07 7
Heading to Minneapolis tomorrow for an overnight. Time for the Xiotech Regional Magnitude User Group (MUG) meeting. This will be the first one I’ve been to at Xiotech’s headquarters in Eden Prairie. Going to be about 20 degrees colder than here in St. Louis. You betcha!
Nov ’07 7
Recently I signed up on a new web site called Yapta. Yapta tracks airline ticket prices both before and after purchase. If you thinking about going somewhere you can enter your trip information, and the site will keep track of the current price and alert you when the price drops. If you have booked a flight, you can enter your reservation information, and the site will notify you if the price drops. The key with a booked reservation is that airfare rules let you rebook is a lower fare comes available, and your price alert will include the necessary information to request a credit from your airline.
Using the site paid off for me tonight. I’m flying to Seattle in December to attend the Windows in Higher Education Conference. When I booked my airfare a couple weeks ago, the cost was $388.80. Tonight Yapta notified me that the fare had dropped to $228.80. I’m flying American, so after the $100 fee for re-booking the ticket, I was able to get the remaining $60 as a travel voucher. Not a bad deal. Paying the change fee stinks, but I’m still ahead of where I would have been otherwise.
