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Thanks for that matrix, I think it is brilliant!

I think it is safe to say that we do not have any Frenemies and Haters around here! I think we are primarily rational Critics because we do CARE about this stuff. We love to criticize the work and not the person ( I have always encouraged that!). Unfortunately, some of us know each other but not sure about the Lovers term lol.

BMW e-vehicle event sounds cool, hope he gets to drive one! Always fun to have stuff paid for the Arrival card [insert imaginary affiliate link here lol]

I checked the times of the flights on flightaware.org and realized there was no way we would make a 50 minute connection in Honolulu as the Island Air flight arrives late and the departing Alaska Air to San Jose leaves early! So, after almost an hour on the phone with United (hung up on me the first time!) I managed to change the flights without a fee due to a “schedule change”. so now we leave Maui 3 hours earlier. Which makes this Maui trip a case study of how NOT to use miles/points!

My response is above.

Next MMS interview:

Blog name: __________
I don’t have one yet as I just discovered you can use miles to fly for free yesterday and I can’t wait to share with my friends and family 🙂

Former fans of the blog are sad. Current readers of the blog are not getting the best advice. 50? Take this number & multiply it by 20. And the VAST majority of them are dishing out crap to line their own pockets first and foremost because, well, they are “commercial enterprises”. Anyways, preaching to the choir…

Not voting for the Mercedes Benz Amex Plat, all of you, I find it ____ (fill in angry word). You all there should know better!

Ok, I need to finish my Centurion lounge review post.

50 bloggers? More like 500… MMS keeps on finding new people to interview 😉

But sure, if half of them were gone tomorrow, the space might be better. Although that may mean more people to prey on for the big bloggers who mastered the used car salesman tactics 🙁

oops, I meant Frenemies!

On other topics:
> gorgeous day here in the Rose City
> distillers can now give samples so lots of shot glasses are getting used to try locally made spirits at the Farmers Market
> finally settled on rough dates for our trip back east so I can look into booking some tix for a Philly/DC trip for after Labor Day
> H is grading finals and making funny cracks about the impending strike at his U
> D is at the Oregon Garden on a Travelzoo deal that her Arrivals card will reimburse
> S is in TX at a BMW e-vehicle event – he is as far south as one can go in TX without getting wet or crossing the border!

Hope you all have some sunshine, wherever you are!

I don’t understand the sadness? The blog changed hands, purpose and direction. When you get 4-5 years of writing day in and day out under your belt on a hobby that is losing its umph, and somebody is offering you a check to stop doing it every day, there really isn’t much sadness.

And besides, there are fifty other blogs now. The space will still be the same, or better if half of them disappear.

Based on the literally hundreds of emails they get per month and the thousands I received over the years I owned the blog, and the income the blog generates now and back then, I’d have to disagree with your assumption :). It seems the unhappy ones are here at TBB.

But then again, what would an old unstable guy like me know compared to this enlightened crowd of critics 😉