We blog about Hyatt Globalist mania, business travel demise, the huge generational wealth gap, best tax moves in December, we travel to so many places again (Siberia, Armenia, Tunisia, Italy, Dresden, Slovenia), the absolute best Covid-19 coverage, then we get into McRibs, donuts, bank robberies, sounds to help you sleep, redwoods, gangster movies and lot more to keep you busy through the weekend. Keep the faith folks, we will get out of this…hopefully in one piece lol.
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TOP PICKS
Top picks are not excerpted at all. I recommend you find time to read every word!
This is awesome. For the record, I am no Boomer, I am Generation X all the way baby! Just click it!
The Growing Generational Wealth Gap
If you are not at least a bit concerned about taking the vaccine you are probably not human. I keep thinking…well, this mRNA thing looks good but what if over the long term it comes back to bite us all? So, we will need all kinds and constant reassurance. Well, if this guy will take it who are we to argue?
15 Reasons Why I Will Get a Covid-19 Vaccine
It has been a while since we had a huge rogue trading scandal to wreak havoc in the markets. Really enjoyed this read with fascinating details how they hid their losses and how most have ended up on the compliance talk circuit…
MILES & POINTS
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Hotels are trying hard to get us all back to traveling and staying with them. Many have extended elite statuses for all of 2021 and made it easier to achieve higher elite status. Along with extending the expiration of free award night certificates, discounts on redeemed awards along with lot of (mostly uninspiring) promotions. Hyatt does have some juicier promos and then boom: Wow! Hyatt slashes 2021 elite status requirements & extends lucrative promos. You can actually reach Globalist elite status sometime between January 1 and end of February 2021 as the elite night requirements are now half of what they used to be. Add in the double elite level night promo for the first two months of the year along with free nights from the Chase World of Hyatt credit cards and…oh boy, I am even tempted to do this!
Then again, would you be staying at Hyatt hotels enough to get all the Globalist benefits? This is one question only YOU can answer. Personally, maybe not most of 2021 but maybe I can target some mega trips in 2022 staying at some nice Hyatts as Globalist status will be good until February 2023! I need to research this more…This is an addiction, I am warning all the newbies 🙂 Having said all that, if this does not get travelers to travel and increase occupancy…I don’t know what will. And of course the Globalist elite benefits will undoubtedly devalue if indeed this makes members go for it as your esteemed blogger is thinking about it. Or maybe I am just hooked playing this game you guys like you lol. #Developing
More ideas: Ludicrously easy path to Hyatt Globalist status (top-tier status for 2 years!). In this crazy hobby you will ALWAYS find hobbyists justifying doing crazy shit and/or spending $ they would have never spent for just those special moments when you redeem points and feel oh so special lol.
Hyatt and Hilton have been most active in this space trying to get us to come out to stay with them: Hotel Status Qualification Strategy for 2021/2022 After Reduced Requirements By Hilton & Hyatt. I have Hilton Honors Diamond status because of the Amex Hilton Honors Aspire card, so there.
Meanwhile, Marriott tries to keep up and it is…laughably weak and sad: Book Marriott Bonvoy Hotels For Fewer Points With New “Off Peak” Offer. Well, I guess if you are into Marriott: Mattress Running Marriott (Book Off-Peak Awards).
Your American Airlines AAdvantage account has a tab for “Promotions”. Check it because AA dropped a gift for each member. Two out of the five accounts I handle got 100 miles each and everything else was way too underwhelming…what a waste of time.
This is a nice Amtrak promo: Register and take one qualifying roundtrip on Acela December 1, 2020 – February 10, 2021 and you’ll get one free roundtrip to use now through March 15.
A reader emailed me why I don’t blog about transfer bonuses. Well, I do when it is worth it. Do not expect me to blog about crappy ones like this ok? American Express Transfer Bonus: 30% To Marriott. Same applies to the 40% Hilton Honors promo as well.
Update: Another Wall Street Journal article with lots of info nuggets that go along with some of the themes I have been pounding here: Airline Cards Lose Luster as Coronavirus Persists. The cards have for years helped attract big-spending customers, but their perks are less compelling in a global pandemic.
…travel purchases were down about 70% on Visa Inc. cards in the last quarter compared with a year ago. Travel and entertainment purchases were down 69% on American Express Co. cards.
At Visa, the largest U.S. card network, credit card spending volume was down about 9% and debit volume was up 20% in its most recent quarter.
Airline-card solicitations that were emailed or mailed in the third quarter had an average sign-up bonus of 50,037 miles or points, up 53% from the prior quarter.
I have been reading The Middle Seat column in the Wall Street Journal for years. The latest one The Covid Pandemic Could Cut Business Travel by 36%—Permanently was very alarming. Since you probably can not access the article due to the WSJ paywall, I am going to summarize the key points here:
…a look at data suggests between 19% and 36% of all air trips are likely to be lost [to remind you, Bill Gates estimated 50% recently. These are estimates and nobody really knows what will happen. But it is likely going to be major damage because…]
The top 10% to 15% of customers at global carriers typically account for about 40% of revenue. Overall, Bank of America estimates business trips contributed $334 billion to the entire travel industry’s $1.1 trillion in revenue last year.
Airlines like American, Delta and United in the U.S. and foreign carriers like Lufthansa, British Airways and Singapore are built around business travelers.
Faced with a loss of business travel, big airlines will no doubt try to raise ticket prices for leisure passengers to make up for reduced revenue. But that may be difficult. Low-cost carriers represent about 20% of U.S. airline capacity and can force airlines to match low prices. A lot of leisure travel is discretionary and if it gets too expensive, not as many people will go. Mr. Baldanza says that means big airlines will have to cut costs to stay profitable. [Yikes…]
TRAVEL
Stop. Click this for TRUE shocking video on how to land your airplane on a highway. At night.
Yomadic is back with an interesting post about an artist in a Tunisian island: Secretive Artist “Invader” takes on the African Island of Dreams.
Armenia got its ass kicked in its more recent war against Azerbaijan. So, if you wanted to learn more: 11 Random Facts about Armenia. There are three million living there and another eight million Armenians living around the world. The country has the longest cable car, almost 6 kilometers long! There are about nine more facts if you are keeping count.
On a roll, lots of material in the Travel section today! Twelve of the World’s Ancient Places. Delphi in Greece is featured. That was the first school sponsored trip I went to as a kid, I should dig out some photos one of these days so we can laugh together.
Let’s take a little detour to Dresden to remember the horrific World War II bombing of the city: Dresden Destroyed: Images of the Ruined City in the Aftermath of Its Apocalyptic 1945 Fire-Bombing. I had never seen these photos before, wow. Yes, I have been there…
Ok, enough death and destruction. I want you to enjoy this superb 4k video about Italy as much as I did. Must click, you are welcome.
Screw that, let’s go to check out all the colors of the Moon next!
No wonder they had their city signs stolen lol: Austrian village ofFucking to be renamed Fugging.
Let’s turn colder now…The mystery of Siberia’s exploding craters. Something strange is going on here! Look at these holes, wow!
Loved this one: Along Russia’s ‘Road of Bones,’ Relics of Suffering and Despair. The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today. The opening scene with the truck on the frozen highway…wow!
Well, since we are into cold climates and stuff like that, how about this one for you: The 7 most beautiful winter lakes around the world. My favorite one is Lake Louise, that was the trip! And here is always picturesque Lake Bled in Slovenia.
COVID-19
We are at the worst point in this so many months into it and it is only going to get worse: States plan for vaccines as daily US virus deaths top 3,100. While some assholes raging hideous lies about a “stolen” election…maybe you should save your outrage about this complete and ongoing clusterphuck tragedy we are going through!
We need to make it through this winter! Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter. “The next dozen weeks will be long and painful. But spring is likely to bring highly effective vaccines and a renewed commitment to medical leadership, something that has been missing under Mr. Trump.”
With all the morons governing us, I am so glad that this guy came along! Deliver a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year? Impossible. Meet Moncef Slaoui. Kudos to this lame duck administration for finding him and not interfering with his work. Hey, I am fair!
When I first saw this headline I had to compose myself and…read it again: Moderna chief medical officer: Vaccinated adults could still infect the unvaccinated with COVID-19
Watch out for these people, they are dangerous! People who believe COVID-19 conspiracies have these 7 tendencies. Oh…and they all voted for Trump!
We need to honor these heroes! A tribute to some of the doctors who died from COVID-19.
This tweet is devastating on how little we have done to help our own in the economic front too.
I found this table here and…I think it is perfect for all of us, which level in the stress continuum are you at?
Meanwhile, over in New Orleans smh: After swingers convention in New Orleans, 41 test positive for coronavirus, organizer says.
Wow, nurses are in HOT demand! How a Bidding War for Covid-19 Nurses Hurts the Pandemic Response.
With a base rate of $95 an hour, he said, some nurses working overtime end up coming away with $10,000 a week…
This is hilarious LOL: We ‘re Being So Safe.
PERSONAL FINANCE
This is really good and timely: 10 tax moves to make in December.
Excellent map: The Top 30 Most Valuable Real Estate Cities in the U.S.
When you hear of market analysts or strategists talk about an imminent drop in the markets…to piss them off…just ask them “Date and time!”. Or just ignore them and focus on what you can actually control…
CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS
Love this headline for obvious reasons: Trump Biographer Hits President Where It Hurts: Can’t Even Succeed At Being A Loser.
Don’t you find it strange that Trump insists this election run under his watch was full of fraud when the election run by Obama was the cleanest in history? Every day that goes by we are closer to regaining our sanity and stopping the carnage…Can’t wait to get rid of these insane assholes!
WTF is going all with all the monoliths? I think they are advance markers for the coming invasion from Mars lol.
Dan Rather is up there in age now but he still brings it on Twitter 🙂
ODDZ & ENDZ
The McRib is back, what a phenomenal marketing job! Why is the McRib Only Offered Occasionally and Why so Randomly?
Gambling is a disease: The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit. It makes you do things like this…
Stop gambling, seek help. In case you are not convinced yet. Well, maybe this story will convince you: The Donut King who went full circle – from rags to riches, twice.
As an NBA fan I loved this: The Most Magical Place on Earth Inside the great NBA bubble experiment.
Some of these I didn’t know, which one is your favorite? 20 Best Gangster Movies of All Time.
If you have trouble falling asleep, I have the link for you! Sounds For Sleep. You are welcome and thanks in advance for your support…if I had one of them juicy direct affiliate links I would enter right now but I don’t, besides it does make me feel so dirty…even after 8 years of blogging for peanuts!
I knew these trees were special but I had no idea! 11 Facts About Coast Redwoods, the Tallest Trees in the World.
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BLOG BUZZ
We are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veterans of this fast imploding hobby and also a section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life because it helps me feel better about myself.
The monthly post by Mile Nerd. I think he is missing us 🙂
There is a new blog: Miles Earn and Burn. Thanks for the kind words!
So long: RIP, US Bank Altitude Reserve [no longer taking applications].
Also, RIP to Lonely Planet guides: The Points Guy Owner Red Ventures Buys Lonely Planet. I can not wait for the “new” Chase Sapphire Preferred Guide you guys bwahahaha!
To the two TBB readers who may have an Expedia Rewards account: Drastic Expedia Rewards Devaluation Is Coming: Act Soon!
I am kind of bored with the miles game lately. I am just working on a few spending promos, one with wife’s Southwest card for a 30% bonus and another one with son’s World of Hyatt card for another free night. At this time, I have 4 Hyatt free nights, 2 Hilton free nights and 1 free Accor/Fairmont free night. I also closed a few cards to make this a bit more manageable. Bye bye Amex Hilton Business card and wife’s Chase Ink Cash card (I gave up on her going to Office Depot to buy gift cards of the places she shops). Few weeks ago I finally killed the CNB card…that was a great ride as I still have AA gift cards!
If someone has an idea for a super low way to knock out about 12 Hyatt nights in January or February from the comfort of my home (or even a short drive from Ann Arbor, Michigan) please let me know. I checked out some of these new Work from Hyatt day rates and they were even higher than regular nights, boo!
I have started doing drafts of blog posts that will appear here over the holidays. For another year I am going to be unleashing Annual or Best of 2020 type lists, it is a tradition I guess. I hope you enjoy them.
I guess I could be doing clickbait shit like this
but I don’t because I want my children one day to look back at my work here and be proud instead of embarrassed. I guess we are all different…
I am still grounded, annual physical was good but I am seeing a specialist about the pain all over my left lower back/glute/down to the knee area…I missed running as much as I missed traveling and going to the movies. Oh, when this is all over I am very afraid there will not be any movie theaters left, so sad!
Any TOP restaurants in Oahu you recommend? Son (who just turned 23…omg!) is enjoying wfh there, even bought a clunker car to get around…
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I would like to dedicate this post to the 20 cents the blog earned yesterday. Slave to Amazon conversions here you guys…
Enjoy my blog that keeps me busy and away from the pantry 🙂
Chinese say they will have 600 million vaccines by the end of the month… #developing
Another great post-I’ll be linking and reading all weekend.
Buried in the Don’t Mess with Taxes link is another link to a DMWT 2013 post on zero rate capital gains for folks with low taxable income. With no Required Minimum Distributions in 2020, many could use this to get a tax-free bump in their basis to fair market value. Or better yet, re-buy the stock using funds already in your Roth IRA and never pay taxes. Mandatory on this one: Get your tax advisor to ok this one for you, and blame her or him, not me (nor Buzz, though he’ll likely be pardoned by then).
I too am bored with the game. Racking up even bigger balances for airline awards seems silly when I haven’t even been on a bus since February. Called for a take-out pizza last night, and the recording said they were closed until Friday out of “..an abundance of caution”. My wife said “Oh, we can get a pizza for dinner tomorrow”. Yeah, right.
Back to the game, I ran the numbers and getting a lowest-priced Delta award for US to Europe in Business Class saves you about 1.5 cents per Skymile used. And that’s if you can find a lowest-priced DL award. No value assigned for long layovers on sub-optimal itinerary, orphaned miles, time spent reading Flyertalk, Reddit and blogs, trips to buy gift cards, trips to Walmart to cash them out, gas, tires, divorce, on and on. 1.5 cents per Skymile if all that stuff is free. As B.B. King sang, the thrill is gone.
The website said there will be 23 million people ahead of me for the vaccine. Oh, please, go right ahead and I’ll wait a bit. Getting the vaccine will be a lot easier than getting Springsteen tickets. And I bet the nurses won’t be singing Prove It All Night.
My comments have become much longer. Don’t worry, Ingy-No extra charge.
A lot of that WW2 damage is still there in central Dresden. At first I thought the buildings were dirty. No, that’s smoke damage from the bombs 70 years ago. Dresden’s pretty cool-scenic river, great museums for a medium city, lovely opera house. Great sausages too, though likely not gluten-free.
Have a great weekend, Buzz.
Good move on that 0% capital gain tax rate. I wish any of my clients could qualify 🙂
BB King “The thrill is gone” is perfect soundtrack for this. But hey, the cc sellers all sound so excited selling more travel rewards credit cards to their readers so they can travel for freeeeee….sigh.
You can comment as long as you want, every one is great.
Thanks for the great links! Had to read the McRibs piece. Yum.
I started booking summer trips in a spasm of optimism that we can travel again.
You are welcome…Now I am craving a McRib!
I am thinking fall..late fall..maybe.
I keep seeing the all the blogs push the Hyatt Globalist promotion as basically a no-brainer and I nearly talked myself into it before recognizing reality is actually the no-brainer (at least for me). Having thought a lot about this, I would genuinely be interested in others thoughts here, both for their specific scenario and mine:
In my case to get Globalist I would need to book 12 nights: 12 * 2 + 5 for holding the credit card = 29; then assume I figure out something for the remaining 1 night. But I’m just using the cost of the 12 nights for my thought exercise. I actually could do the essentially ideal scenario of booking the nights at a Cat. 1 property, thus 45k points after the promotional rebate. To even be more generous the hotel I would be booking is eligible for the new hotel promo for 500 bonus points a night, so I would earn 6,000 points bringing my net down to 39k cost.
On top of that, hitting the 30 nights would yield me a Cat. 1-4 certificate for the milestone reward. I could talk myself into calling that a wash with needing the one additional night; but for my purposes I’ll continue to be generous and lop that off the top of my cost – let’s say 10k points so now we’re down to a net of 29k cost.
I’ll use 1.5 cents per point as a valuation based on that I would need to transfer over from Chase UR and I could otherwise pay myself back at that rate, so grand total cost = $435. Now, would I get $435 in value out of Hyatt Globalist till February 2023? Maybe? But is maybe good enough to pre pay for stuff I don’t know I’ll get to enjoy?
Personally, eating the food of a new city is huge part of my travel so hotel eggs benedict and lounge snacks just aren’t moving the needle that much for me. And upgrades are nice, but again who is traveling to sit in the hotel room?
Talk me off the ledge, or back onto the ledge here.
Your rationale is very similar to mine. I am going back and forth…leaning towards it though because hopefully the Athens Marathon in November 2020 will be held and targeting to camp out at the Presidential suite in that new Grand Hyatt…assuming it is still open. And then we have 2022…
Also, I was never a Globalist so I need to finally achieve this for my career lol.
I understand if you go either way though 🙂
Added another WSJ article in the post, see red “Update” in the Miles & Points section.
I will respond to all comments later today, thank you.
Phew!! I think this week’s edition wins for the most articles I wanna read right now! Too much good stuff! No, not too much, just gonna take a couple days to digest. Thanks very much as always and take care of those legs and all. Injuries are sometimes just very time-consuming to get past.
You are very right about the points thing not being exciting right now. I finally got offered (Yes!! Offered!) the Amex Biz Plat! But…. 15k spend in 90 days? When I can’t go anywhere I want to (or just won’t go) plus the $595? Nah.
Been hitting the Amazon Prime card like mad since I got that lovely promotion of at least 4 points per dollar on everything. Xmas has been easy to buy with points! Best usage? No, but enjoyable and right now, anything enjoyable is good. There’s been a lot of tough stuff to deal with lately and anything to lighten the load is good. Not to mention that earlier this year, getting shot down on Apps 3 out of 4 times made me realize it might be time to just sit back and work the cards I have!
As @Bill seems to say, the whole question of a mattress run seems iffy. I’ve never been one to care that much other than my room be clean and there be hot water. When I go somewhere, I want to be OUT of the room except as needed. But yet, 3 “Free Nights” are gonna expire end of January if I do not make myself go *somewhere*.
The vaccines cannot get out fast enough for me because I will get one first chance I get!
Thanks as always for the fantastic blog posting! High point of my email week!
Thanks again for the kind words, much appreciated. I guess the haters did not come out today…they are probably too busy my blog while pretending they hate it and bitch at me for selling so much LOL.
I am buying a stove and they are very busy and I am like…can you make sure you get it before Christmas so I can pa you (and knock off another free Hyatt night)? Yeah…it is an addiction all right 🙂
I can get the Globalist thing with points, thanks Chase Bank…I have not pulled the trigger yet, I have not had time to see which property is best… #developing
@CP, you haven’t been hitting that AZMN card hard enough. TBB only made 20 cents yesterday. As a Japanese lady told me during a business meeting in Tokyo, that’s penis (she meant to say peanuts). I realized why most foreign companies have an agency representing them in JP.
~3k COVID deaths in the US alone today and CNN covered this tragic piece of info on the front page:
“Queen Elizabeth II’s dorgi Vulcan has died, leaving her with just one remaining dog”
Sad!
The extra 4 points in on spend ANYWHERE. Sadly, that doesn’t help TBB, just me. But it gives me something to chase instead of new credit card bonuses for a while because I was getting tired of being denied on card apps earlier this year.
>>>>>>>that’s penis (she meant to say peanuts). I realized why most foreign companies have an agency representing them in JP.
Thanks for the laugh, good one!
We all need something to chase…especially in this hobby!
Thanks for another great post Buzz. Still waiting for the Delphi pics, how long can this go on?
The Hyatt offers are very tempting, but seeing as most hospitals will be full in January…tough to justify, not to mention the fact that simply being out and about only serves to recirculate the virus.
I have to agree with Carl, exceptional amount of great articles for this weekend.
Have a great weekend and my best to the family Buzz!
I need to find the Delphi pics…
Thinking to get a local property, drive to check in….maybe stop every three days to re arrange something and then call to check out 🙂
Thanks again for the kind words and the support.
Great article on Dresen. I only know about that book cause of crash course! I had a chance to study abroad there in college. Wish I would’ve gone but I was too scared. This was way before my traveling days obvi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6g7S2W27Kc
Why is there no comment section on that blog? Didn’t target screw everyone last year??? https://milesearnandburn.com/index.php/2020/12/04/targets-manufactured-spend-weekend/
I am surprised by readers commenting on articles…I did not think the Dresden one will get any…Actually, it almost did not make the cut!
Can not answer the other question.
With all the sparks (I won’t say buzz) from Hyatt today, I’d like to put in a good word for Hilton. I’m a gold member and had 2 award nights booked in Waikiki last week – had to cancel them when I started quarantine at my main location (Covid test results arrived late). By the time I got to call them, it was after the 3pm cutoff, but they didn’t charge me anything and refunded my points.
That is great. My family is really still fond of Hiltons…But those days in the Big Island Waikoloa village spending 100k HH points for 5 or 6 days are long gone 🙂 That property remains special because it was the first time my son managed to swim across the pool with no floaties…he was so proud of himself he did it all alone…we all remember that moment! Thanks….Amex 🙂
I have 18 links for the next TBB blog post already…
WTF you guys, make it stop 🙂
Depends on what food genre your son likes. SushiSho (expensive tho). Roy’s Hawaii Kai always a fave, Tonkatsu Tamafuji (almost Japan quality tonkatsu). Tons of new restaurants in the Kakaako area although i haven’t tried any (too hipster ya dig? lol)
This is great, thank you!
Ok, shoot down my Globalist aspirations:
Current cardholder: 5 elite nights
Will spend $15k for the free night which will give me another 6 elite nights (2 per $5k)
Need 19 more elite nights.
Do 10 nights at Category 1 at 5k pts per night for 50,000 points. Will get rebated 25% of the 50k points, so 12,500. Final cost 37,500.
I doubt any of the Category 1 properties in SE Michigan are newer properties to get 500 points per night but is there a way to check?
I may go there to work during the day to get out of the house. With mask. Maybe take breakfast to go 🙂 But not sleeping there…it is the air you know…
Holes? I do plan to stay at Hyatts later in 2021 and am going to sure make epic plans for 2022 to Globalize myself to the max lol.
Sounds legit. How much spend are you willing to do? I’m planning on getting globalist purely from MS. $60K of spend would cost me about $420, and for that I get globalist + 2 free nights + 60,000 points. Not a bad haul.
The $15k of spend I plan to do is…organic. Likely shift/prepay some business expenses. I guess I could accelerate it but I think the Simon Mall gc to Kroger option is dead or mostly dead? May take a little while to get there but…I am not going anywhere before June anyway 🙂
420…coincidence? 🙂
When is your Hyatt card’s anniversary date? Are you going to be able to get the double free night this year? If so, that’ll be $30k of spending instead of $15K.
I was going to focus on it starting early thinking that the Hyatt change in how it handles the free night was now, as in 2020/2021….Not 2021/22. So my card anniversary is September so no rush for me to knock off $15k early in the year as the Free Night cert is effective 12 months from when the 15k is completed. I am also assuming I am not going anywhere before June, so no rush. I just need to do the 10 nights in a HP Category 1 in Jan/Feb. I have 5 booked already in a local HP and easily I can burn another 25k for another 5 nights (25% of these points to be rebated of course).
I may even go for another 15k between Sept-Dec 2021 for a 2nd free night then…I guess that is some time away. At this rate I am getting concerned the time involved to book all these one nighters you guys…I may have to call in for help 🙂
and I am not even thinking about any milestone north of 30…yet.
https://world.hyatt.com/content/gp/en/offers/new-hotels.html
Here are the 500 point bonus new Hyatt locations. Doubt you want to drive to Flint or Grand Rapids.
Great, thanks a lot. Yeah…passing on Flint for sure and if it was normal times I would definitely consider Grand Rapids as I have clients there.
Booked 5 nights at the Detroit/Livonia HP for mid January, I guess I can stop by for my breakfast to go lol.
I need to book another 5 nights somewhere else…
The soccer schedule is absolutely packed. The best players will be worn by the time EC starts. There was no time to rest in the late summer after the season ended. And CL and EL followed the regular season. And now you have a compact spring schedule. And WC 2022 qualifiers were added March-Sept 2021.
We can’t expect to see the best players in the 2020 European Championship next summer. Maybe there will be a few surprise teams making it to the WC. Greece may get a draw against Spain? I will be cheering for Iceland in the WC!
Yeah, you are right. Super packed…but maybe the virus contributes to spacing them out a bit 🙂
I am definitely not making any plans to visit Qatar to see Greece in the World Cup in 2022. Spain and Sweden in the group…ouch.
Iceland may have had its best run, no one is sneaking up on them any more…
Greece will probably have negative interest rates before making it to the WC. Remember that Greek/PIGS drama a decade ago? Blame the Germans!
Thanks for $3.12 with Amazon yesterday. Still looking for a second credit card conversion this month…WTF!
This Friday’s post will be EPIC! I need to move on and find another hobby…this is so downright demoralizing when I see so few clicks…I think prisoners make more per hour smh.
Another day, another day closer to the vaccines and away from clinically insane Trump…
$1.54 yesterday off Amazon.
Maybe I should stop checking every morning. And kill my credit card affiliate links for good, nobody is buying!
To aspiring new bloggers: STAY THE FUCK AWAY, find something else to do with your time!
Enjoy tomorrow’s post, it is shaping up to be EPIC. Going to go out on top #winning
Are there no cushy Amazon bounties you can push in the US?
For eg, in the UK Amazon is giving people £60 off their next £200 order if they sign up for Amazon Business for free. This is not exactly a hard sell yet Amazon pays me £25 per person.
I should probably take a look but I always have so many to read articles in the queue…
My priorities need to be readjusted 🙂
EPIC post tomorrow…going to go out with a bang. On top. In my own delusional mind lol.
Is AMZN crushing it in the UK as well?
How are brick and mortar retail stores doing? Will Oxford street be the same?