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Saw this quote from a colleague while at a conference and LOVE it:
“I aspire to inspire before I expire” – Martha Loats
In case you were living under rocks, yesterday the blogosphere went nuts again with some new Amex Hilton credit card offers. I am not going to fake my excitement about how amazing these cards are (they are not) and try to sell them to you. But if you are going to get them anyway since you know what you are doing, please consider getting them with this blog’s links or another blogger you want to help out. For the record, these are available with my links:
Amex Hilton Hilton Ascend card 100,000 points and free night
Amex Hilton Honors Business card 125,000 points
Amex Hilton Honors No Annual Fee card 75,000 points
Also added a Citi AA personal card for 60,000 AA miles and a Citi Business card for 70,000 AA miles. Lets move on now as I am feeling dirty already…
This blog post compares all four Amex Hilton Honors cards.
Nice list to have: Here’s A List Of All The 10,000 Point Hilton Properties In The US.
I always cringe seeing how much CEOs make. Especially hotel CEOs. Like that Wynn dude. Interesting table: The Most Highly Compensated Hotel CEOs of 2017.
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer introduced vRooms, where you can blow your miles on hotel stays and car rentals. These are usually a bad deal but maybe you get lucky burning some of these miles if you have plenty laying around I guess.
This is pretty cool: Gigantic ‘Mario Kart’ type go-kart track opening at Niagara Falls, Ontario. It will be North America’s largest elevated go-kart site.
Are you an aviation geek? This WILL BLOW your mind! Russian Fighter Pilot Shows Off for Crowd With Amazing Flying Demo.
How life changes after you get one of these stars…The $1.50 Michelin-Starred Meal.
Pretty neat, what a cool guy! At 112, America’s oldest man has the secret to a long life: ‘Just keep living. Don’t die.’
What a story, wow! The Great High School Impostor. I had never heard of this!
What Artur Samarin pulled off at a school in small-town Pennsylvania is one of the boldest hoaxes of our time.
Another wow story, I had no clue about the dangers of this job. Actually, I had no idea this job even existed in the first place! The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver. It will shock you! For real, not in click bait real mode okay?
Lets visit Peru’s Rainbow Mountain. Which was not discovered until 2013, thanks global warming!
What it is like taking a super fast bullet train in China. So glad we had such a huge tax cut to the wealthy so we can trickle it down and finally catch up to their infrastructure #sarcasm101
This is very interesting: Ranking the Most (and Least) Productive Industries.
Another fav song from my youth, it was dark what can I say? Lol
Very interesting take on how to go about getting miles/points owed to you via Mile Nerd The answers is…mediation! It is pretty ridiculous if it gets to that…Remember when Amex had the best customer service..by far? I am starting to sound like an old geezer always talking about the good old days 🙂
I was expecting yet another post on how an IHG Rewards account got hacked but it was…JetBlue this time! Impressed with how JetBlue handled this.
And I leave you with this…
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The cats liked that!
We miss Fluffy departed June 2016. Never forgotten, spirit always with us.
RIP Fluffy.
Great post today, Buzz.
Here comes the karma:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/arts/design/picasso-painting-damaged-christies.html
Gracias Senor…
RIP painting…WTF 🙂 I know the person in charge of these, I should say hi. Oh then again, maybe not!
Bronze from Philly, PA!
Hey, bronze is hardware!
#winning
Silver from Trinidad…at a large Hilton suite for little ole me…The truth is the entrance room, bathroom 2 balcony and pull out couch is wasted on me. Just give me a room, good WiFi, comfy bed, throw in lounge access and I am a happy man.
That should read extra bedroom and bathroom and 2nd balcony.. Butnit does have a long entrance…
Good post on the Hilton Cards…
When it is freeeee….why not?
Wow I’m just in amazement at the saturation diver story. Eleven days just to decompress back up to the surface…the toilets…it’s all so crazy to think about. I could never deal with the psychological aspects let alone the other stuff, so huge kudos to the people that do. So what credit card should I use at the bottom of the ocean? lol
Thanks for not going gagga over the Hilton cards. Not that they don’t have potential benefit, but the hype from the pumpers over them is ridiculous – as usual, of course.
I am still looking for the FIRST reader to click on one Amex HIlton link, sad!
I guess I could be bringing up the Conrad Maldives or the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem blogger from Cleveland….I bet you that will get at least one click.
Sometimes I scream inside #itissophuckingunfair and then I come to my senses and am just grateful for what I got…
Yeah, that job and what it entails…it shocked me 🙂
I like your style George. Next time I am in Ann Arbor, let’s do lunch, I know a great little Mexican joint there. On me, of course. Adios for now, until mañana.
Si senor. Sure, let me know.
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I need to know that great little Mexican joint…I would be surprised if I have not visited it yet!
Have you eaten here yet, it is near your office.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/racist-viral-video-lawyer-aaron-schlossbergs-law-firm-yelp-bombed.html
Well played…you got me!
You get honorary First on Sunday!
…And in case you were wondering, Donald, Melania and Melanoma are not the same thing…
Lol…I had a feeling this would somehow end up here.
For the record, I was invited to the royal wedding but I turned it down because I had to work on yet another amazing Sunday Best of Web TBB post.
Stop returning stuff you buy with my Amazon link, come on!
To the reader who bought the most expensive item to date with my Amazon link on Thursday, thank you!
You can still be first getting an “amazing” Amex Hilton Honors card. Last chance. Hurryyyyyyy!
Harry is apparently a big TBB fan.
That Keith guy is becoming Daraius #2:
Beginner Alert! This Is Just How Simple It Was to Help My Sister-in-Law Earn $1,900 Worth of Travel! – Million Mile BS
These douchebags parallel the douche-iness of teamblocked Rene wow!
How to Earn 300,000 Hilton Honors Points with Sign-Up Bonuses – Points Miles and Martinis
So he wants you to apply for a minimum of two lol
How Many Hilton Amex Cards Can You Apply For? – One Mile at a Time
These BA guys are like crack dealers….they just can’t stop dealing plastic!