28 08 2002
Last night I rolled about two or three years worth of quarters while watching “Bats“. I bought the movie for $1.99 on the Previously Viewed Movies rack at Rogers Video. Total deja vu from seeing “Eight Legged Freaks” last month… but considering the fact that “Bats” came out in 1999, it’s kind of a chicken-or-the-egg thing.
Anyway, I’m glad I bought it for $1.99 instead of renting it for $3.49. A lot of plot holes and some bad editing (and the ink-jet printer makes the sound of a dot-matrix printer in the movie. Are we to believe that this is some magical printer that can print both ink-jet AND dot matrix?). Overall, good entertainment to keep me busy while rolling $140 of quarters!!!
The trip to California to visit Andrew has been arranged now. He’s got time off and so do I. We’ve organized a rough itinerary (not going to San Fran, but going to several tech museums in San Jose - I’m a geek). And despite recent problems that my brother has had with ordering stuff on the Internet (he’s 0 for 2 - albeit not his fault in either case), I decided to buy my tickets on Travelocity.ca. I was able to save just over $100 by getting tickets this way instead of the first plan - through Sears Travel. I also saved $20 by using an e-ticket, and I fly on United Airlines instead of having to give Air Canada my business (monopolistic &%@#$).
Normally I would be more cautious about taking a ticket from online, using United Airlines and saving money on an e-ticket to San Francisco… if I hadn’t done it all before! This is exactly the same route, airline and method I used to get to my “promising” interview with Disney… except this time I won’t be running to catch a connecting flight in the San Fran terminal. It’s even easier!
United’s North American hub is San Francisco (I think), so that’s why the tickets are so much cheaper with them. After all the trouble Air Canada has given the family with flights to Japan, I’m glad I don’t have to give them my business…
…of course there’s probably an airport tax that they’re going to get. The only way I could manage to avoid that is if there’s any flight from Buttonville to San Fran… and I don’t think there is.
