Y9 D280

Another early morning. Such fun. Another morning where trying to go to the bathroom hurts. Even more fun! It hurt a little less this morning which means either the rock has broken down more or I am just learning to live with the pain. Why is this taking so long?

In more important news, we booked our trip last night. In approximately three months we will get on a plane and end up in Australia. 8 days, 7 nights in Melbourne. The positive: 2 tickets plus the hotel cost me $220 in fees and $200 in seat assignments. So less than $500 for everything. And the latter was just to make me happy, not because I had to do it. See we ended up having to get economy seats. It was going to be $1200 to do business class on the way there and economy back, or over $5000 for business the whole way. Neither of those options was appealing. Instead, we did economy, then I logged in and put us into economy premium. Not great, but for $200 instead of $1200, okay. We are on the upper deck of the plane with additional legroom and less people around us. That was worth the small fee. As for the hotel, not only was there zero out of pocket, I ended up getting one night free and it was less points than I planned. That was nice. Hotels make it easy (or at least Hilton does) to use your points. Airlines not so much. Regardless, it's booked and done. I promised one spouse France and she wasn't willing to ride or die. This one gets Australia. Plus the exchange rate is in our favor right now which helps. I am going to get $500 USD converted and at the current rate that comes to over $600 AUD. I am also going to cash in all the euro and GBP I still have floating around here. I did some math yesterday and that's like an extra $150 AUD already. 3 months baby.

As for work I dealt with people. Did two separate private Q&A sessions yesterday. One was okay, the other a real breeze. Today I have a 5:30 - 1:30 class, then a 2 - 2:30 session for next week. I don't know why the latter one has to happen. Wait, yes I do. Because some idiot Project Manager has to justify their existence. Asshats.

B was in a funk still since it was her grandmother's birthday on Wednesday. She had made a cheesecake in her honor but for some reason the mix didn't come out right and she was all depressed. I ended up making the cheesecake for her which lifted her spirits. I also took her out for a nice dinner as she deserved it.

The kid was able to back up her HDD and is now going to reformat her laptop. Got through that hurdle too it seems. This has been a crazy busy week with no signs of slowing down.

I also have not received my raise yet. At the end of today I will be throwing a fit about that. This is going to be a shit show.