We go on a wild ride learning how to hack American Airlines Routing Rules, check out all 7 Club Carlson Fall Promos and the Hilton HHOnors Silver & Gold challenges, cry together like a family over the “enhancements” at Aegean, watch Marathon Man Rant about (what else?) MSing, learn and psychologically brace ourselves for the gazillion posts coming to your eye sockets about the AMEX Small Business Saturday promo, travel to Queenstown, Norway and Chicago, learn how fast we can become Millionaires, 401k Plans, Gay Children, ISIS Takedown, and watch an awesome gif on how to kill someone while boarding lol.
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MILES/POINTS
Club Carlson’s 7 Fall Promotions – Magic of Miles All 7 Club Carlson promotions are neatly laid out here. This site does hotel coverage very well. Perhaps it could have been better named “Magic of Hotels” 🙂
Hilton HHonors Amex Silver & Gold Fast Track Two Or Four Stays Within 90 Days – Loyalty Lobby Good promotions to hit Gold if you were having any business stays ahead of you and you did not have it already.
Aegean Miles+Bonus Program Changes November 2014 (Easy Star Alliance Gold Gone!) – Loyalty Lobby Ok, it’s official. When the most obscure blog writes about this what do you expect? Actually, you know, Greeks tend to move really slow with these things so not surprised at all it took so long to fix this!
Some of the things that are annoying about daily MS – Mileage Update A rant by Marathon Man on MSing and stuff. “The clerk is nervous and cannot perform” LOL.
Looks like the Amex Small Business Saturday promotion is going to be back later this year and you can get $30 per registered card. So brace yourselves for a ridiculously endless stream of blog posts reminding us all about the deal. The Points Guy is excited to get $120 in credits. I call BS on this one. He is A LOT more excited to be selling the Amex credit cards as just one of them means he will make more than just $120 on this promo. So please spare us all your excitements! Oops, that belonged in the Blog Buzz but just could not help ourselves!
TRAVEL
Beautiful Queenstown, New Zealand. Another totally awesome video at The Adventure Blog.
A Journey in Which I Travel North, on the World’s Most Beautiful Voyage, Searching for the Specter of my Grandfather and a Glimpse of the Ever-Elusive Midnight Sun. At the New York Times. Watching these remarkably stunning videos and the story around them is just riveting. I loved Norway, the natural beauty is just stunning! You are welcome in advance! 🙂
Chicago pictures. With an iphone. By Instagrammer Ryan Postel.
Drone Captures Incredible Photo of Nine Climbers on a Swiss Mountain Peak. Found at Dashburst. WOW!
PERSONAL FINANCE
How long does it take to earn $1m in different countries?. At the Economist.
401(k) plans 101: A guide to saving for retirement. At US News & World Report. This is really basic intro. And also necessary. Sign up right away, do not procrastinate!
7 money mistakes you shouldn’t make in your 30s. At Yahoo Finance. Right on!
ODDZ & ENDZ
Life advice for my sons. At The Week. Yeah. listen up kiddos!
If I Have Gay Children: Four Promises From A Christian Pastor/Parent. This is very powerful. It was posted by a colleague of mine in Facebook who recently came out.
Open Letter to the ISIS Baghdadi from Muslim clerics telling him to go f*ck himself. Ok maybe not like what I would tell him…so they use Islamic teachings to tell him how wrong he is. At least read the first page Executive Summary.
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This first posting game is pretty banal, and I opt out. I still love the blog, though.
Doh.
… and that’s why you just type “First”. Sentences take too long to type.
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Congrats to United1k, think it is a first First! You can have the breakfast of champions tomorrow!
I need to get me some zzzzzzzs
I guess I’m third again! Weeeee
Third is still hardware!<-------------notice exclamation mark!
And the long arrow! I’ll take it.
Loved the humor photos/GIFs!
Happy Friday,
PedroNY
Thanks, you too!
George, you still haven’t sent me our selfie from the Starbucks! Its not as spectacular as the Junfrau drone picture, but still…
I forgot, it’s still in my phone! I will get to it…some day. It’s typically slow move by me, we Greeks move Sooooo slow 🙂
You have readers who actually pay cash money to stay at Club Carlson hotels? Really? 🙂
Lol. i just liked all 7 promos in one place. You know some readers are road warriors, with companies footing the bill. i miss those days only for the miles/points Scores! 🙂
Dear George, Sorry for my juvenile behavior as of late. I will contribute only meaningful, mature, miles and points commentary from this point going forward or not at all. Today’s breaking news you can use….http://nypost.com/2014/09/22/meet-the-3-boobed-woman/
Deep!
I actually saw that and could not shake my head any longer as I had finished going through a batch of 300 blog posts or so.
Better you shake your head than she shake her…
…yeesh…why?!?
A whole lot shakin’ going on 🙂
Seriously, you’re blog is the best out there. The finance and photograph links alone make your status undeniable, and then you do all the filtering so we don’t have to. I wish you had more links to stuff we can buy just so we can reward you for all the hard work. You should post a GroupOn and LivingSocial link if you ever buy anything from there.
Wow, thanks a lot, this means a lot. I have not purchased anything on Groupon or Living Social in ages. Actually, the only thing I ever bought on Living Social made national news 🙂
http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2011/02/fairmont-hotel-san-francisco-living-social-lifetime-platinum-status/144791/1
Yeah, I should add more things, I get more and more readers asking me to…
I am getting there, no rush.
Thank you! Spread the word, maybe your mother in law is an Amazon shopping addict 🙂
I’ve stayed at a fairmont!