OT: The fun of throwing away plane tickets

So it's looking like I won't be in Paris after all this week as previously predicted. Wound up hitting another bureaucratic barrier in a very bureaucratic country - surprisingly I'm not talking about France here - that seems very difficult to route around short of a time machine, the time and hassle of filing way too much paperwork, and likely requiring a whole lot of money to put towards tax lawyers.

Air Transat was about half the price of the alternatives but unfortunately offers no-refunds and no-exchanges. Ah well... sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.