Rebel Prince

Thanksgiving plans with the folks, check. Patiently waiting for a drop in Thanksgiving airfares has paid off. I just bought a roundtrip ticket (Washington National to SFO, departing the day before the holiday and returning the following Monday) for $149.50 total on Continental. Rock on. Can’t do any better than that. Seriously, that’s definitely the least I’ve ever paid to fly coast to coast. And that fare seems to be valid on travel way into 2005. So anyone else with flight plans between Washington and San Francisco, you can find the fare at the Continental website. (It’s also available at the major travel sites like Expedia and Orbitz, but they charge extra service fees of $5 or so.) I hate to sound like a commercial, but as someone who watches airfares like the stock market, I’d say act now.

By the way, I usually start with the “Best Fares” tracker on My Yahoo (which I’ve set up as my browser’s home page). Seems to work pretty well.

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I hadn’t really gotten around to regularly reading Zach Braff’s blog (he of Scrubs, Garden State, The Broken Hearts Club, et al.); however, Susan recently linked to a post in which Zach mentions her girl, Fiona Apple, and which I rather enjoyed for this passage (I’m quoting verbatim, though it contains a couple of errors that are testing all of my self-restraint not to correct or at least throw in a [sic] or two):

Onto more important things: I really enjoy washing my car in those “pull your car into the stall and rent our water, hose, brush and vacuum” places. I don’t know why, but there’s something very cathartic about it. If you’ve never tried it, give it a try. I recommend going alone, cause if you go with someone else, you’re gonna be all in your head if it’s someone from the opposite sex about whether or not you should go for the “slow-motion chewing gum commercial moment” and spray them with the hose. So go with someone of the same sex. Unless your gay, then you’re stuck with the hose problem again. (no pun intended) Hmmm. Fuck it, just go alone. Why do you always have to do things with other people; being alone is refreshing. Washing your own car allows you to quiet your mind for 10 minutes (or more if you have enough quarters).

So true.

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