Monday, January 31, 2011

Hotel and Airfare

Ruchi has set up room blocks for the Hilton Garden Inn.  Rooms are going to be cheap since I'm sharing with 3 Daytime students I met at the meetings.  

I'm bummed at the airline options.  $350 roundtrip from SFO seems to be the cheapest.  I had to book this on American Airline's site because they currently are not on Orbitz or Expedia.  I've decided to fly red-eye and not waste a whole day flying.  Rather waste a night on the airplane and have my fellow passengers hear my wonderful snoring.  At least I'll get in a good few hours of touring this "middle of nowhere" place in the world.  Rental car is $20/day.  My Warren Buffett owned insurance (GEICO) covers car rentals, yah!

So $25 (hotel) + $40 (car) + $350 (air) + 2 days of lost wages  worth it to see an icon like Warren Buffett?

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Got in

"Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness." - The Architect in Matrix Reloaded

I was number #17 on the wait list.  After the first mandatory meeting, I was #7.  After the second and last mandatory meeting, I was #1.  Now I am in.  Yes!  Never give up hope.