Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Expedia Mystery Flight: $1230 to Munich

They won't say when until you buy the ticket but the important information is some airline will sell a ticket from Dallas / Fort Worth to Munich for $1230 when the circumstances are right.  It also means it's probably cheaper if more research.

Doing it that way turns into Crash Test Dummies as it's potluck when anyone actually shows in Munich.  Maybe it's today or maybe two months from now.  There's no way I would buy a ticket without at least knowing what day.  It's probably flying with Bring-Your-Own-Raft Airlines but wtf if the price is right.

The answer is not go to Cat's place as that plays something like this:  Hi, luv.  Just thought I'd stop by for the rest of my life and some friends will be coming.  Got anything to eat?

That may work in Des Moines but nowhere else in the known Universe.


There was a brief review of destinations and it appeared for any launch date between now and August it's about $1500 for a one-way ticket to London, Barcelona, all were about the same ... but Munich had a special for some reason.


For general purposes, I'll use $1300 or less as the price of a ticket to somewhere in the EU.  However, that doesn't include checked luggage and anything that's over-size and/or over-weight is going to cost big bucks.

The Boss GT-100 is the amp modeler for the guitar and it has MIDI-out which means it can probably start the much-hated drum machine when I start a loop.  That means only two floor boxes and the Galaxy Guitar would go.  That means the keyboard and bass go overboard but in Austrian that means go to Vienna and jam with Michi Renoir.  There are two dreams for Europe and that's the second one.


My ol' Dad is sayin' fuck it, go flyin'.  My ol' Mother is hanging from the mike stand and she's urging some caution before I make up my mind ... but that's already done.  I'm just deciding how.

That's not dismissing my ol' Mother as she throws the rope in case I want to take it but she knows I won't.  She's cool with it either way because ... she's my ol' Mother.  We, including my ol' Dad, put her through so much in crashing and getting smashed-up.  Dayum, she was tough.  If you think you can do it, I'll ride with you ... whew ... she's tougher than I'll ever be.


I've verified I can download OS X Mavericks from the App Store which means I can do that on the laptop and subsequently install it on the iMac.  It's been shown over and over there's nothing wrong with the hardware so that machine can be available for immediate sale.

Note:  that process cannot be used to come back up to Yosemite 10.10.2 through step-wise upgrades as the only version of Yosemite available is a cumulative upgrade to 10.10.3.  The iMac is completely screwed.

In fact, I'll even throw in The Whacker with the iMac.  It's a huge black flashlight full of D-cell batteries and that's what I carry about when something unusual happens.  I won't carry a gun but I do carry The Whacker.  It has never whacked anything but I'm sure I'm sure it would do a peach of a job if it did.


Right now is prime time for Euro vacations and that means the worst time for plane tickets.  Most likely that means the soonest departure would be in Fall but that gives some think time.


Here's some think time:  the Boss RC-50 looper may only lose the LED the next time I try to start it or maybe the whole thing dies.  If it's the LED then I could still use existing loops if I write down the names and numbers and find them by counting and, sure, please do that in a gig ... people will dig that to no end.

Therefore, kill it.  End of think time.


This means killing a whole lot of plans but, so long as they are replaced by better ones, where is the loss.

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