It's a love and hate relationship with the airlines these days

It's hard to look forward to flying with terrorists running amok, a bazillion things apparently getting forbidden by the TSA, and United Airlines in general just SUCKING. But hopefully they can make it up to me, because they gave me a $100 online certificate. Problem is, I have to redeem it (that is, book travel) by Jan 31, 2007. I can travel anytime from Jan 1, 2006 until Jan 31, 2008. I'm thinking I should probably use the $100 for Spring Break '07, even though it isn't during my birthday (boo!).

But where to go? Who to visit?

Any ideas?

WTF.

According to eBay, the listing of the cell phone that I bid on (actually, it was BUY IT NOW!) was removed for violating policy. According to PayPal, I already paid for the phone. My bank account doesn't say this, but after I called them, they said it's pending and will clear by today (so there's no point in doing a Stop Payment request, which takes 2 days to clear). I was about to open a dispute with PayPal, but since I just paid for the item yesterday and contacted the seller a few minutes ago, I'm hoping this can get resolved quickly and I can still get my phone. The seller (or a representative) got back to me, told me he was looking into it, and told me to call tomorrow.

I don't want to have to go through all the trouble of looking for other sellers with the things I need.

But I am so freaking sick of THIEVES!