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Ag with kids

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Those patrons were just embracing Austin's motto... Keep Austin weird, right?
  5. 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...
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Anyone know where I could get some here in Corpus? They didn't have any at the HEB on the Bluff when I was there earlier this month...
  15. A guy I work with has been touting them so I did an online order a few weeks ago because he was going by to pick up some stuff and said he'd grab mine. Turns out I was the very first online order because he'd just set up the website. I had to run to downtown to get a car title last week so I stopped by and grabbed some stuff. Owner's a cool dude. I'm getting a free shirt because of the online thing. Food I've eaten so far has been great - I got the bavette and made fajitas and they were awesome..
  16. My gag reflex kicked in about halfway through that video... I'm hoping my excessive drinking will help wipe that memory from my short term memory quickly...
  17. And...it's official... The people at AMEX are on crack. I just received my THIRD 150K MR bonus for my THIRD AMEX Business Platinum Card. Yes, I have all 3 of them open right now. I'll cancel 2 of them after the year anniversary. I used the $400 per card Dell reimbursement this year to get a lot of stuff for my new home office. Plus, the $200 per card in reimbursement for AA spending. And, one of them is getting me $20/month off my phone service. So, It'll cost me less than $100 to have all 3 this year. Maybe less because I think I've used some other benefits I'm not remembering right now... And just this year I've received 300K MR bonus point PLUS the points for spending. I'm not going to have to pay for plane tickets to SXM for the next several years because of this...
  18. Yeah...it was so great. We were driving on a road and got caught behind some guy leading his cows to the dairy... We had to drive at the speed of cow.
  19. Well, to be fair...Lajes is the airport on Terceira. It was a USAF base for a long time. It's actually where my parents met. They were teachers at the DoD school there. Finally got a chance to go there back in 2016 with my Dad. It. Was. Awesome. I'd love to go back.
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