I have tickets for Minicon, which will get me to Minneapolis Thursday evening, staying through Sunday. This is, of course, subject to change if--as I hope--I'm employed by then. Best case, the new employer will let me take the Friday as unpaid time off, or make it up the following weekend, or such. Next best, I can change the tickets. Worst case scenario, I'm out $5 and a bunch of frequent flyer miles. It seemed like a reasonable risk to take, after having paid real money to go to Wales over New Year's because the frequent flyer tickets were all gone by the time I made up my mind.
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