Bored to tears at work

I don’t want to write here about sport all the time but last night’s Champions League tie between Chelsea and Barcelona cannot go unmentioned.

So there I’ve mentioned it.

No but really, it was a great game to watch. The league leaders from Spain and England dishing up a six goal thriller, with a dash of controversy is what the champions league is all about. Barca can be a little aggrieved as it did look like Carvalho fouled Victor Valdez for Terry’s winning goal. Even more so considering all the whingeing that came from Mourinho after the first leg. Chelsea though deserved to win and I’m pleased to see them through. Petr Cech was outstanding in goal, making some fine saves that kept Chelsea in the match. Saves that probably wouldn’t have been saved by Roy Carroll, Tim Howard, Jerzey Dudek, Jens Lehman or Manuel Almunia.
While Chelsea and Barcelona served up 9 goals in their two legs, Man U and Milan gave us 2. Man U are out, can’t really blame the goalkeeper for letting a goal in if the rest of the team aren’t going to bother scoring any.


It’s so easy to book airline tickets these days. We don’t even need to ring travel agents to get quotes. As with pretty much everything else these days, it can all be done on-line. There are loads of sites to book holidays through, there are even sites you can go to that will do a comparison of all the prices being offered on these sites.
So I’ve been doing my research, finding which is the best price for our trip to South Africa in July. Yesterday I had singled out the best deal and was ready to book. One of my mates wanted me to wait until today, so he could see what the flights were before I booked them.
As is with a lot of these booking engines, the prices fluctuate based on how far away the trip is and how full the flight has already been booked. I was a little hesitant to wait until today to make the booking, I knew which one I was going to book so why take the risk that the price might go up. But what difference is one day going to make?
This morning I ran the particular flight search and was horrified to find the price per ticket had risen 25% overnight! I ran the search again and again hoping to get different results but there was no way I was getting yesterday’s price. I was kicking myself. So I took a few moments to compose myself and started looking for another deal. In a real anti-climax to this story, I managed to find flights with a different carrier on another website, which in the end turned out to be slightly cheaper than the ones I had originally planned to book.
So all’s well that ends well, we’re flying Swiss now instead of Lufthansa as originally planned. All that’s left to make this story interesting is for the Lufthansa flight to crash!