GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

In much the same way that taxes/fees/etc. literally double my basic long-distance bill, taxes/fees/etc. seem to account for a disproportionately large percentage of the price of a plane ticket. Guh.

"$350 to Paris in early September? Yay!"
"Oh. Yeah. <insert profanity of choice here>"
( Cut since it seems to be larger than I thought )

Of course this is all completely theoretical at the moment anyway, but it's good to know. I do need to get moving on figuring out ways to use up my vacation time so that I don't lose any next year like I did this year. Long weekend at the beach, long weekend in LA, road trip out west, possible long-ish weekend in Paris to meet up with brian1789 [Edit: nope, scheduling will not allow me to make this particular trip as planned.], possible trip to Europe or someplace else interesting later in the fall with nminusone. Yep, if that all comes through, that oughta just about take care of my three-ish remaining weeks. Oh yeah, and somewhere in there I have to find some way to make travel plans mesh with that whole "paying down/off my credit cards" plan. o_O