Glad you are still finding value in this program. Daughter just checked out today from a Country Inn in Seattle and am so glad to be finally down to 537 Choice points after blew 120k Choice points for a 7 night stay there. She liked her stay actually at that Country Inn.

Just now seeing posts how Choice Privileges bumped the Preferred rates to 110+ up from 85k a few months ago up from…you know.

Thanks for reading.

Suites in Prague, Ceske Budjovice and Liberec in Czechia for 8,000 points per night.

Rooms for 10,000 or 16,000 to 20,000 points at Clarion Collection Principessa Isabella Rome and Quality Hotel Hampstead London.

20,000 points for The Thief Oslo.

I find plenty of high value reward redemptions with Choice Privileges points.

@ David: The book will have to wait until I am reincarnated into a different life form lol. Yeah, that New Brunswick story was disturbing to say the least.

Just back from Ludington Michigan and oh crap, I need to prepare a post for tomorrow. I did gain a new subscriber. And thanks Carl’s sock drawer card for the three coffees.

@FullMoon: So true about Alaska miles, I need to get more. And oh i hear you about languishing AA miles as I have almost 800k of them and I can’t remember the last time I spent any. Thanks for the Kneecap recommendation! I did look at it and looked interesting, will look to see it. I also want to see Cuckoo, which appears to be very off the wall, my kind of movie.Thanks for the kind words, this blog continues even thought the wave of Google’s algorithms have moved blogs into a torrent of clickbait shit…not sure for how long and, it has been like this for a while 🙂

At the risk of being argumentative I do like eating caviar on a flight since It’s the only time I ever get to eat the stuff. Props to Qatar for doing this IMO.

Have a movie to recommend: Kneecap. A trio from Belfast raps in Irish, and they play themselves in the film. Really good on many levels.

Thanks again for all the work you put in to put this blog out, Buzz.

@ NIck PFD: We leased a new Lincoln Nautilus last month, wife’s car as she now has to drive twice a week to work. As the 2011 Ford Edge was just not adequate, you know. We drove it today for the first time for a long distance trip and we loved it. Your comment about Coast FIRE made me laugh, thanks.

Started reading the “coast FIRE” thing but it just sounds like working until you retire but with more spreadsheets.

Good stuff all through here and that crashing airplanes thing proves there are idiots in even the most particular kind of jobs! but it *all goes*

Thanks as always, George! Gonna have to head upstairs to me office to buy a coupla cups!

That book was preceded by this blog, sadly.

And this blog is doing so splendid financially (5 cards sold in August, one is our own and five coffees sold), insert laughs, that the one thing to top it would be, here it comes, write a book on personal finance lol.

The people who inflict scams on others should be persecuted and severely punished. It still amazes how some people can do this repeatedly without remorse. It has to be a gene thing. Genetic defect. Or something. Also, all the people who fall for obvious scams is…something also very noteworthy. Probably genetic too?

Gotta pack for my two nights at a Hyatt Place and Comfort Inn in West Michigan this weekend. Sadly, no caviar on the horizon for us lol.