Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/ppFRN

IDK, I guess the lesson is never give your allegiance to a profit-maximizing entity?

Tardy Santos at your service. Thanks for the great post, but I’ll keep my legs as they are, ouch that procedure can’t be good.
Good luck with your mom and have a great time in Greece!

Waiting for familia to land. Son always makes fun of me for insisting on carrying physical cards. So, he was not allowed to enter a Lufthansa business lounge today so wife and daughter left him with the crowds. He told daughter he learned his lesson lol.

No idea how I am going to do a Friday post you guys. Just too much going on here, everyone I see wants to treat me something and hours later, you know…

@ Vicky: Maybe Atmos does it officially with Cathay just like it did with Singapore and LATAM?

@ Carl, DML and Nick: Thanks guys, take it easy.

@ Peteco: Yeah, Citi is ascending while Chase is descending. In general. Yeah, Preferred hotels always looked intriguing but I am so comfortably in bed with Hyatt (and Hilton) that I don’t have time for the program. Unless I return to Citi one day…

@ Sam: Good info on them Jesus statues.

@ Christian: I don’t spend any time in Thessaloniki. Just the Hyatt Regency which is next to the airport SKG. I think a few days in town could be fine. Really want to ride the new metro one day. We spend way too much time on how each of us spends our miles/points. We are all different. Use them as they will give you most pleasure. And yes they will continue to depreciate, you can take that to the bank (back where they came from LOL).

Tomorrow I await my family flying today on Lufthansa via Frankfurt. And hopefully tomorrow morning I have time to prep another Friday TBB post, God willing.

I may have to see about visiting Thessaloniki some time since you speak so well of it. My better half and I are going to Naxos in a month for the first time and we’re really looking forward to that although now that I think about it I should probably try to figure how we get back.

I have an interesting quandary: I’m looking at retiring in a touch over five years and I aspire to have two million points each (including my wife’s) with Amex, Chase, Cap1, and Citi (not gonna happen but I’ll try) plus misc. airline miles and hotel points. I recognize that these are depreciating assets but my premise is that by using these after retirement I will have to pull a lot less actual cash to travel for around five years. It also gives me something fun and constructive to pursue. Not looking for too much but any off the cuff thoughts? Comments welcome by all.

In 2005, my friend and I were on a highway in Ohio and came upon “Touchdown Jesus”, a 60 foot high statue just off the highway:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9786

Thanks to your post today, I learned that the one we saw was hit by lightning in 2010 and it burned down. It was then replaced with a new statue.

Also, the statues in your post aren’t really the tallest Jesuses but in many cases just the highest. A 6 foot statue on a mountain top is still only six feet tall.

Tons of good stuff as always. Have a great time while you are over there and I hope all is well with your mom!

Lots of stuff going on here (not really) but the plums on the trees in my yard are almost ripe and it is time for the gleaners from the food bank to come and get ’em!

The piece about how to become taller thru surgery was really something. Thanks for
all the links!