22 March 2007 - 7:28 pm

Call me awesome.

You can call me awesome for more than one reason, but the one I just got done doing, I am awesome to the infinite.

Things are definitely looking up.

So, I had been looking for this one more day I needed to book to secure all four nights I will be spending in the Indio environs for the Coachella Music Festival. I noticed yesterday a few listings showed up for the Saturday I desired, but since all the rest of the nights I had booked were for a 2 bedroom + murphy in the living room that sleeps six all together, I figured if I waited, I could get that exact same arrangement for all nights, and possibly not even have to move rooms once I settle in. This makes it much more desireable to be able to offer it as a commodity to sell on the internet.

So I saw some listings yesterday, but held off. I looked again this morning, and they were gone. I'm still not that worried because on my reservations it says I have until the middle of the month of April to cancel without penalty, so I expect there would actually be a lot of movement then, when people finally find out if some conflict definitively ends their chance of going. Sure enough, I just checked again now, and there was my room. I now have four nights, in a row, booked for a King Size Master room, Queen sized bedroom, and a Queen sized Murphy bed in the living room. I will check the rooms out, but despite the fact I could claim the King bedroom for myself because it is my place, I probably won't unless it has its own bathroom and the other room doesn't. I just figure being able to offer a King sized bed to a couple will make it more desireable, more able to be sold off. Considering as the plan stands now, I will be in a bed by myself. Or maybe not. Maybe I will get lucky in that arena too, between now and then.

I am awesome because it now is the truth that I totally came through on my commitment and promise to get the rooms for us. I just wasn't sure I would be able to do it this early. I would have been worried if I still didn't have that room until the week of the concert. But now, now I can be choosy about who I will allow to stay with me.

Of course, it would be really fun if I could have people I know stay with me. Maybe people not even attending the concerts, but who just need a weekend away at a resort. It is a vacation resort, after all. Someone should be enjoying it.

I figure I can even charge money for the rooms, including the murphy bed in the living room to some people who want to stay up later than myself. If I have my own bedroom, I wouldn't need to wait for them to go to bed before I could fall asleep. Now I can go to sleep when I choose. I am getting jazzed. I am getting more jazzed at the fact I might be able to recoup my costs. If you figure that I pay a monthly fee for this place anyway, any money I take in will be merely offsetting my costs already. Kind of like a car, and the monthly payment and maintenance expenses versus the expenses of gas on a specific trip. It might seem like I merely need to ask for enough money to cover my costs for this stay, but hey, if people have difficulty finding housing, I am then providing a service, and since they have no idea how much I did or did not pay for this suite, actually, anything I ask for is reasonable, considering the thousands of dollars I have already put into the cost of this place. Timeshares: if you can afford to avoid them, please do. Though this one is nicer than some, in that it isn't for a particular place, but a multitude of locations, so every year I can always go somewhere different. This is actually the first time I have used this timeshare, ever. Not just this location, since they finished building it last year, after Coachella, but any of the resorts ever for all the money I have been paying. It is time to find out if it has been worth it.

Anyway, I have scored, I am awesome, yea, me. One less thing to worry about, and now I don't constantly have to go check the website multiple times a day. More productivity at work, always a good thing.