Wednesday: I finally bought holiday flights.

Partially because I got yet another email telling me that if I don't take 34.75 hours of vacation before the end of the year, I'll lose it (with the implication that it's a big hassle for HR, so I should just take the time and be done with it).  I'm going to take 5 days before the end of the year, not counting Christmas (which is a regular holiday), so that should do it.

I initially panicked when it came back with my desired flight dates and a price of $1257.  Eventually, the "not-fucking-crazytown" flights loaded, and I was able to get it for a better price.  I then thought that my Thanksgiving flight was significantly more expensive, which led me to trolling through gmail to find how much I've paid for what is essentially the same flights to SFO in the past ~18 months (at which point I got tired of looking).

The line is a quick by eye fit because those four points looked like they were colinear.

My conclusions from this:

1. I almost always buy my tickets about two weeks away from my departure date.
2. Price doesn't seem to really correlate with how early I am, although there's a slight trend that "last minute" is a bit cheaper.  This doesn't account for time of the year, or how long ago the flight was, however, and those are probably important factors.
3. I fly to San Francisco a lot, as I think this will be my sixth trip this year.  Last New Year's isn't on this figure because that was partially work related, and not the simple "there-and-back".

I got an apple danish to have for a late afternoon snack.

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