I always get the blog in email in case you are still wondering

Me, not Mr.

Mr competing against the Ritholtz army, lol. Thanks, needed this.

Been walking a lot and the feet bother me so no hiking adventures for me for a while.

For email subscribers, are you receiving the emails from me? Maybe the reason for the traffic drop is that they stopped.

Anyway, no time to post here. Friday post should appear. But changes are coming, maybe time to separate TBB the travel hacker with my normal finance side.

If you enjoy walking/hiking you’re in the perfect spot. So many great places for amazing hikes in SoCal. Much closer than Machu Picchu (I recommend Charmlee Wilderness Park if you want stunning views of the pacific coast). Or just go down to Laguna beach if you want a pretty beach. If you want to compete with Ritholtz Wealth Management, you need to start a podcast!

You all have a great week.

And don’t hate Taylor Swift smh.

Oh, I guess the Lions are not going 16-0

Twitter accounts who don’t like Trump are posting “They’re eating the cats” songs.

Twitter account who do like Trump are also posting “They’re eating the cats” songs.

Trump has successfully united the country.

one commenter said “Sorry I don’t have time for the podcast right now, but can you tell us when and where the Chicago seminar will be?”

Lol.

I think my blog is too intellectual and too phucking long to keep the interest of more than a few people. And then even they go away, like my fiend Pat, the MS Queen, who recently unsubscribed as well. Which still hurts a lot.

So, here I am keeping up the quality and barely making anything to keep this baby going. Basically, not going anywhere. Not that I ever had any grand aspirations, I am just kidding when I talk about being discovered. But the pendulum between time spent here and bringing in enough to justify it, instead of closing a bit, getting larger. I mean, it looks like hitting 10 cards sold with the new cc vendor is a pipe dream so another ax is coming. Seeing so many YouTubers selling plastic with thousands of subscribers and me here busting my behind to make just peanuts that sane people would make fun of me…you know, it blows.

So, as of right now, I was going to do a streaming blog with frequent updates from the Future Proof conference next week. But that just will continue messing up my stellar CFP/CPA reputation with my neurotic miles/points TBB self. I better stop doing that.

This blog was always and likely will remain an escape for me.

Anyway, managed to get daughter back from Thailand, another 55k United miles burned. So, it is likely I am going to cancel both legs when I find something decent to buy. Because burning 110k United miles for a simple roundtrip SEA-BKK is ridiculous.

The Friday post will stay until cc sales dry up completely. Or until the cc vendor kicks me out.

Coffees sold are completely immaterial to the commercial viability of the blog. But do wonders for my psyche, especially when they are combined with positive feedback.

Actually, I am always open to suggestions on what to do around here.

When you comment “Keep up the great work”, can you stop and think “what have you done about this?”. Did you send my blog link to your mother? Did you take the time to comment constructively? Did you buy a coffee? Did you say screw to the bigger blogs you give your credit card clicks to and instead decided to use TBB’s cc links because you want this guy to continue blogging because his content is great and adds value to your life?

On a more positive angle, yesterday I hit a low in my weight for 2024. Celebrated with binging on sushi with my girls hoping that daughter will pay for it celebrating her first paycheck but since it was so tiny I paid for it LOL.

I feel better. Time to pack soon. Flying Southwest to Orange Country. Because bags fly free and will pick up a crapload of swag to gift to relatives in Greece.

Keep checking here, I may get bored and post something before Friday.

Enjoy your weekend, the weather in Michigan has been perfect lately.

Thank you for being here.

@ Anon: That was really funny, at least I get some laughs in my blog because clicks ain’t happening. For the record, TBB does not endorse eating your pets, WTF!

@ Carl: Yeah, I agree. The retirement article and that first scam story are must reads.

Been thinking to do that streaming blog post from the conference. Then I look at my haul at just 5 coffees this month and 4 cards (all the 120k Ink Business Preferred on the very last day lol, at least my readers are smart!) month to date and it makes me want to cry. At least now I can pick up a few places to go cry from that article in the Travel section I linked to, sad lol.

Daughter saw first paycheck and her face expression was priceless: “Do you expect me to live on that?”. Yes I replied, woohoo.