No Austin, it looks like…

Most of you know that I’ve been in bad financial straits for a bit.

I was scheduled to go to Austin, TX for NPS. I’ve been waiting for a ticket voucher I earned through a product rebate to book flights — it was for a full price ticket.

The voucher hasn’t arrived, so I started booking flights today, thinking I could scrape by with money.

I hunted all the appropriate websites. I found a decent fare (277 roundtrip) and booked it through Priceline.

Priceline took the booking, but stated that they were having processing trouble and would e-mail me the confirmation.

I received an e-mail about an hour later stating that the processing center had lost my information, and I had to rebook.

In that hour, the flight I’d looked to be on had gone up by close to 200 dollars.

I can’t afford to go — can’t drive because I need to sleep with my equipment and can’t do that in a car.

Unless I hit the lottery like now, I can’t go.

This is terrible — I had agreed to go to do a bunch of stuff, and now it’s all gone.

Last straw.