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A couple of good posts at Frequent Miler involving the Marriott Travel Packages. One about the best airlines to go with them and the other contemplating how to win big before August. I advise bloggers to draft posts expressing their outrage when Marriott kills this, sad!
Blogs exploded with an Iberia crazy promo that could earn you up to 90,000 Avios. I agree with the statement “I simply don’t have enough trust in Iberia for them to pay out.”
We get an insightful interview by an AccorHotels executive trying to explain the company’s strategy to keep buying anything that moves. Very interesting stuff. They may be up to something or, more likely in my opinion, this crazy buying ends up making them so unfocused on what a hotel company must do…you know, take care of the hotel guests for crying out loud! Time will tell if this is proved to be brilliant or disastrous. Author starts out with “By the time we publish this, we wouldn’t be surprised if AccorHotels has already purchased or invested in another business. ” LOL
This is unbelievable, I had no idea lava could flow this fast!
Wow, bookmark this and come back to it when you are bored 🙂 The 100 Greatest YouTube videos of all time, ranked.
So much video, what is going TBB? Well, since you asked, here is another one for you. We lost Koko the Gorilla so here she is with Robin Williams.
Another post about Health Savings Accounts HSAs: Maxed out your 401(k) plan? Here’s another way to save.
Lets go for a swim you guys! The 11 dreamiest swimming pools in the world.
These look amazing! The 7 most amazing synagogues from around the world.
Neat infographic: How 10 Billionaires Surmounted Failure to Build Massive Empires.
Helpful post here: JAL Will Soon Offer 12K Round-Trip Awards, Here’s How Their Award Chart Stacks Up With British Airways.
Barclays Arrival Premier added Aeroplan as an airline transfer partner. Does anyone care, really?
Some good thoughts about the Hilton Amex credit cards. These offers expire June 27, all available with my links except the Aspire one.
I am done with son’s minimum spend on the Citi Business AA Platinum Select already, another 70k AA miles coming.
Burning news: I am putting together slowly a trip to California again. After getting Southwest tickets to San Jose (burning $200 in vouchers) and 220,000 Radisson Rewards points for five nights at a Country Inn in Sunnyvale that is perfectly located close to son’s place…we decided to fly to LAX and burned $150 in Delta gift cards from some premium card (only three $50 gift cards allowed per booking, boo!). So we now have to book four nights in Los Angeles area and my daughter wants beach time. I also found on first try award tickets on Delta non stop back to Detroit for just 15,000 Skymiles each…it was shocking!
Looking into hotels in LA area. I may burn some free nights in the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica. I stayed there before and was not that impressed but it appears we may not get the chance to burn them before they expire. I have an expiring Hyatt night as well. And enough Hilton/IHG/SPG/Radisson points as well. Feedback appreciated.
Shocking result in the World Cup with Croatia beating Argentina 3-0. I want to remind you all that Greece lost its place to the World Cup to this Croatia team, they are very good!
You are the First Lady, you have hundreds or thousands of things to wear and you are a former model and you wear this ugly jacket with the shitty message? Jerks!
Guess who did a Friday interview at MMS? Randy Petersen. I give up! Obviously, I am just not cut out for this commercial blog thingie which requires kissing up to outfits like that blog that was instrumental in killing so many parts of this hobby. Based on two readers, I have lost my credibility so imagine what the say if I do an interview there, sad!
Yesterday was my birthday. I can not believe I am 51 years old, wow! Celebrated with beating my 3 mile personal best time by 1.40 and then my girls treated me with tacos #blessed
After the tacos we got to enjoy the band Alsarah and the Nubatones in the free outdoor Ann Arbor Summer Festival. Very unique sound, Sudan and Egypt influences mixed in!
And I leave you with this…Caption this, be gentle 🙂
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Happy birthday!
Now I know how Messi feels. Never a winner anymore.
Womp womp….;-)
Happy Birthday!
Great infographic on facing failure. At least in US culture and many others, the vast majority of us have a fear of failure and punishment of those who try and fail, rather than being willing to learn and recognizing the innovators. So it takes fortitude to keep going in spite of it when you’re immersed in such a culture. And I’m just as bad in beating myself up over things that don’t work out and moping rather than continuing to move forward – so I’m not one to talk.
Randy on MMS interview day, eh? Guess I’m not surprised though…despite the legacy of FT, it seems with nowadays with stuff like BoardingArea, Randy has become as much of a shill as the rest of the lot. Maybe getting the MMS interview treatment is appropriate now!
$2.32 in last two days. No cc clicks. Just 7 cc conversions this month.
I quit!
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You need Iberia links! $4 per booking …..
congrats on the birthday..but you’re old 😉
Happy Birthday! your daughter is beautiful
RIP Koko! She’s up there with Harambe now.
That lava is something else! Fun to watch from a safe distance but I’d get the hell out of its way pronto.
Thanks for the bd wishes and kind words everyone.
Amazing games today at the World Cup!
Looks like Nigeria, after they scored a goal, they flipped a switch and got really confident! Amazingly, Argentina is still alive and…I think Nigeria can beat them. LOL.
Brazil was shooting blanks for 91 minutes, WTF! And Neymar was crying like he just won the World Cup. All he did was barely beat Costa Rica, the 2nd worse team in this WC (after Saudi Arabia).
And the game going right now against Serbia and Switzerland is AWESOME! And oh yeah, I want Serbia to do well!
5 mile run today, beat personal best time by 50 seconds. This is how I roll.
And no clicks…this is how I deflate. LOL
i need to become a socialist. Ol Bern made 1m+ again in 2017. Gotta give that ol bird credit he figured out a way to make a mint. It pays to lead us all in mock outrage. https://vtdigger.org/2018/06/22/second-year-sanders-earns-1m/
For the record, I am no Bernie Sanders fan and wish the dude had not stuck around for so long before “supporting” Hillary. And I am afraid the dude may do it again….If that happens, we may have another four years of Trump. OMG!!!!
>>>>>>Sanders, an independent, historically has been among the least wealthy members of Congress. In 2014, for example, he earned little more than his congressional salary and had $330,000 in assets.
The extra on top of his Senate salary was advances/royalties on his book…so, please save us the outrage dude.
Hey, Trump now says that North Korea is still a thread when 10 days ago he was sayng he solved it all and no reason to worry!
He has figured out the way to cash in. I have no outrage just impressed he was able to weasel his way into millionaire status as the communist/socialist approach to politics.
As always, MU, you don’t know what you’re spitting up. You’re an all-too-typical leash-led ignoramus.
If Hillary had been smarter and less self-assured, she’d have done what anyone smart and humble would’ve done—picked Bernie as her running mate and wiped the electoral map from the abomination.
You’ld fit right into socialist Scandinavian. Lots of billionaires there.
Socialism is great. Especially when you someone like Bernie who can cash in it. Gotta give him credit to grind it out as a career politician and become a multimillionaire.
Speaking of Croatia, we were in Split watching the game at a Starwood property 4 years ago. Much more fun watching there than in the USA.
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And I get deflated every day not doing 10 conversions per month and not even one Amazon click…
I give up
And now Forza Mexico in the World Cup
The end is near…
You are tired of me whining and so am I!
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Belgium and Croatia are my favs to win. Would be nice to have a new country win the WC.