ouch!

[quietann]

Just made my reservations for my usual holiday trip to San Diego to help my dad celebrate his Xmas Day birthday (#81 this year!). Over $500 for the plane ticket and nearly $200 for the car rental for a week. Not too many years ago, Ben and I *both* flew for about $500, but this time it's just me, because Ben will be busy being Mr. Arisia. Car rental is from Fox, the really cheapie car rental place in San Diego. The next lowest price was about $275 for the same kind of car.

Ouch. Yes, dad will subsidize the cost of the plane ticket -- it's really a present to himself -- but yes. Ouch.

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[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

That's always an advantage. When I was working, it was harder for me to get time off at the holidays than any other time. When most of your job is working a public desk, and there's only so many of you doing it, you have to take turns taking the priority times off.

So that was always my excuse for not traveling on the holidays. I miss that excuse...