[Sailor Steve]

I'm having a problem with the scheduling for the meet, and it's a doozy.

I'm currently living in a VA housing facility. The problem is that I can't leave for more than four days, and because of my dislike of flying I opted to take the bus, which means a total of nine days for the trip.

I was recently granted a disability pension from the VA, due to my diabetes. This means that I qualify for senior housing, which is cheap, and also for a HUD program which would let me stay here, but for a small price, and then I would be free to go for as long as I want.

The problem is that all this is happening at the worst possible time. I'm hoping to get into one of the housing options before I need to go, but it's looking more and more like that's not going to happen.

So my options are:

1. Go on the trip as planned, which means when I return I won't have a place to live. Thanks to the pension I can afford to check into a cheap motel pretty much indefinitely when I get back. "Afford", yes, but it will take most of my money and leave me without my computer for the time being.

2. Find a cheap roommate situation. This would let me live for about the same price as the other housing options, but with people I don't know. Actually that would have been my first choice, but that was before I found out I can live alone for the same amount.

3. Forfeit the money I payed for the bus trip and fly, which I hate.

4. Don't come, which is the option I really hate.

I'm hoping things will change in the next ten days, but I'm not counting on it.