The fun begins.

I spent over an hour on the phone with Alaska Airlines on Friday night only to find out I can only save my flight booking for 3 days. I won't have the funds available until this Friday so I took the risk, had them save my flights, and will try to call them tonight to convince them to save the booking until Friday. It's not like I can't call back on Friday, it's just that with frequent flier miles you have to take what you can get and there may not be any seats available when I call. Oh well, that can't be helped. What's supposed to happen will happen.