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Ag with kids

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  1. I've got to go back and try Port A sometime soon. I used to go multiple times a year when I lived in the DFW area. Now that I live on N Padre, I rarely drive the 20 min up the road...I just do the places here on NPI. Damn I've gotten lazy...
  2. AHHH!!!!..Now THAT is good info to have. But I thought it had to be charged through the airline. Is that just a special perk? I'm Platinum on AA so there's not much I get charged that qualifies anymore. Used to get those 500 mile upgrades for $40 but they did away with them last year. Even when I've been in a seat that "technically" doesn't get free booze, I've gotten free booze. Probably because my fat ass is so dead sexy.
  3. Well...shit. At least 90% of my travel is work related so I hit the lounge solo (fuck my lolpoor coworkers). But, it's nice for my Christmas trip to SXM to hit the DFW or MIA lounge for the layovers with my GF. Don't think that's worth $175 for the AU since it's only once or twice a year and and $50/visit, it's cheaper to just pay at the door. Just as well...I'm getting ready to cancel several of those Business Plats - just got them for the MR points.
  4. If I have Plat AND Business Plat can I get 2 people in? What if I have 4 Business Plats and 2 Plats?
  5. I boarded my flight at 0530 this morning. At 0555, the door of the plane was closed and the pilot announced we were fucked and everyone was grounded. Luckily, they let us deplane about 5-10 min later. After an hour, we bailed and I'll let our travel dept fix it. We'll make the trip next Wednesday...
  6. I wouldn't doubt it's longer than that. This also fucked up a lot of duty day times for available flight crews so it's not just aircraft placement and airport gate availability...
  7. And in other coming news... Unmanned Aircraft Systems will be Uncrewed Aircraft Systems going forward (ASTM F38 change to their bylaws). Oh...and "cockpit" will be "flight deck" going forward.
  8. They had already closed the door on my 0600 CRP-DFW flight when they told us. Luckily, they let us deplane a few min later. We ended up blowing off the trip and we'll do it later.
  9. Well, I've got an LLC for renting out some condos I have.
  10. Ok... This is getting ridiculous... After using my FOURTH AMEX Business Platinum card to pay most of my rental condo tax bills, I still had about $8K extra business bills that I wanted to put on a card. So I applied for my SECOND AMEX Business Gold card. And...Approved and another 100K MR points will hit the account in a few months.
  11. Yes, you can get the bonus on both the Platinum AND Gold cards. I've done that. And, as I've posted on here, for some reason AMEX wants me to have a bunch of Business Platinum cards and give me bonuses for each of them. I'm on number 4 now. Paying taxes on my rental condos should cover about 85% of the spending in it so there's another 150K MR points.
  12. Those patrons were just embracing Austin's motto... Keep Austin weird, right?
  13. Holy fuck the fog got thick Friday night and Saturday morning... But Friday night it was kind of weird. We stayed in Saida Towers and left around 6pm to go to meet a friend up at Tequila Sunset. His buddy was playing that night (he was pretty good). I could barely see driving there on Padre Island Dr. Then I turned left towards the bars/parking and boom - no fog at all. There was nothing on the laguna side. But, I did get my fix of Wanna Wannas and Turbos so life is good. Kind of a bittersweet trip though. My GF got a bad leg infection the mid December and we had to cancel our annual trip to the Caribbean for the Christmas season. We were headed to Cabarete, DR. But, her doc said she couldn't swim while there and recommended NOT going to a 3rd world country because if anything got worse she'd be fucked. So we cancelled the day before we were leaving. Oh well, we did a 3 day trip down to SPI to at least GTFO of our house. We went from NPI to SPI...
  14. The Points Guy (google it) has some decent advice. I'm not saying it's the end all be all, but it's good enough to get you started.
  15. I'll definitely look into the Avios deal, but off peak is usually not an option for us. The GF is a teacher so travel is summer and Christmas realistically. And the Christmas trip is one we do every year. BTW, how would I do Avios from TX to the Caribbean? I did remember that AMEX will give me back 35% of my MR points so the trip will only end up costing 169K. I also could have booked it months before and it would have been less too. I just dropped the ball this year.
  16. Please do. I got 2 AA tix from SAT-POP last week for over the Christmas holidays. Used Amex Travel and spent 260K MR points. How can I improve that?
  17. I have NO fucking idea. They apparently just want to keep giving me free points. This is LITERALLY the third one I've been approved for in 2022. That's 420K MR points... I just dropped 260K for 2 plane tickets to the DR over Christmas (should have booked my trip a few months ago because it would have been less than 200K). So, this will help replenish my account. Well...the game may be stupid, but I guess I'll keep playing it. Seems to be more lucrative than Vegas.
  18. That's what **I** said...That's the THIRD one of those they've approved this year - first 2 were 150K, this one was 120K. I have no fucking idea what they're thinking. But, I like the MR points.
  19. BWAHAHAHAHAHA...WTF again. I now am approved for my FOURTH AMEX Platinum Business card with 120K MR points after $15K/3mo spend. I've got some big expenses coming up so this was perfect to knock out about $14K of that... Come next year, I'll start cancelling cards #2 and #3...but until then, gimme free stuff... This was just a card offer on the website.
  20. I'm up in the metroplex for work for a few days. I've had Taco Casa twice...Chiladas AND Frijoles (pour one out for the Pintos and Cheese)... I lived in Weatherford for 20 years and that was our go to. My kids loved it. Missed it when I moved to Corpus.
  21. While I love the Chilada... I do miss the Enchirito. And living in Corpus, there are no Taco Casas. But there IS a Taco Bell right by my work. Of course, Taco Bell brought back the Mexican Pizza and then promptly said they had "supply chain issues" and you couldn't get it.
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