What are you doing New Year's Eve?

[Lunar]

my plane to JFK, which should have left two hours ago, was canceled today, leaving me stuck in goldmining country in California for an entire unexpected week (my work will LOVE that) or paying $1500 for a plane ticket from another airline.

It's looking like I might be able to bump my flight from the 4th to the 1st, so hopefully I'll be on a god damn plane to New York that night.

And I was lucky to get a flight on the 4th, I was calling every 15 seconds to Jetblue for an hour today  before they hung up on me (didn't even allow me to be on the waiting list for calls due to call volume), a completely miserable and frustrating experience.  Eventually they stopped automatically shutting my call down and switched me to a 30 minute waiting list where they eventually told me the soonest I could leave was midnight a week from now.

[Lunar]

It's official: I will be on the Tarmac of Sacramento's airport at the clock strikes midnight

[Lunar]

my plane to JFK, which should have left two hours ago, was canceled today, leaving me stuck in goldmining country in California...

I suppose Greyhound, Amtrack and renting a car are out of the question?

He said he's going from California to New York.  That would be one long bus ride or one long train ride.  I'd rather wait at the airport and let someone do the driving for me.

Well you couldn't pay me to ride a public bus that far, but the train would be nice....especially this time of year.  Driving would be even more interesting but a lot harder on the body and mind and not all people have the constitution to do that kind of thing (and this time of year the mountains can suck if you hit them at the wrong time).

I priced out an Amtrak ticket during my frustration, would have taken 3 days with a 6 hour layover in Chicago.  Would have been fun, and could have carried my speaker system to NYC with me finally, but in the end, I'm getting there a few hours sooner via flying and saved myself $387 in train tickets.

[Lunar]

Change mine to "drinking", I just got laid off.

Happens to the best of us brother, probably why ancient civilizations invented alcohol -- that and when your plane flight gets canceled and you're told you can't go home for six days.

Hey, you can always move to NYC!  It's what I did when I had no job.