Ag with kids

Oh my mother fucking God... AMEX wants me to get my FIFTH Business Platinum for $15K/3 mo spend. WTF are they doing here??? I'm passing this one since I'm currently working on the spend for another card, but still. I think someone there is on crack. I'm cancelling 2 of them next month which will ensure I keep the MR points from them. Going to keep my first one open and then close the last one in about another year. I don't need FOUR of these fuckers.

I get to Seadrift periodically. My GF's best friend owns the winery in Long Mott on the way into town so we stay with them several times a year. I'll have to try that place.

Linda's on Gollihar has really good breakfast tacos. And it ALWAYS packed...so, take that for what it's worth. It's actually owned by the mother of one of my engineers... And Casa Vieja on the frontage road between Flour Bluff and Waldron is decent.

AA just offered for me to keep my Platinum for $1750. Since I've already earned enough Loyalty Points to at least be Gold, I'm not that interested. I do like that you're higher on the upgrade list and the extra checked bag when my GF and I travel (which is about twice a year), but other than that, it's not THAT much better than Gold. I guess there are more seats available at booking and a little higher point earning but that's not $1750 worth.

Might be. Like I said, I have a number of different Plat cards (they keep wanting to give me MR points which I like). I'm getting ready to cancel 2 of them in a few months, though, to get rid of the annual fee. I've gotten 3 Bus Plats and 1 personal Plat in the past 20 months. MR point bonus with all of them (except the personal but I just got it and haven't met spend yet). This is all with the same LLC.

Don't worry. My youngest kid is 27 years old. I'm not one of those assholes. But, yeah...must be some weird loophole since I know I'd gotten emails letting know guest access was going away.

Two...

Nope. That's why I was surprised at the email. Well...I do have a number of AMEX Plat cards (4 Business and 2 personal) but I don't think I hit that number on them.

I just got an email from AMEX that I can "Enjoy complimentary guest access to the Centurion Lounge through 1/31/2024". I know they're shutting that down this month so this is nice. Maybe they got some customer pushback about the restrictions????

They moved part of it earlier this week. They moved the main building yesterday. I didn't head that way (they're cluster fucking the Commodores/PR22 right now) but I did have several friends that went that way to watch them move it....

I know there's a lot of info about the New Orleans area food...but I've got a kid that's going to be moving to the Lafayette area and and I was wondering what the best food recs were in that area. TIA

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...

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.

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.

If I have Plat AND Business Plat can I get 2 people in? What if I have 4 Business Plats and 2 Plats?

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...

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...

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.

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.

Well, I've got an LLC for renting out some condos I have.

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.

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.

Those patrons were just embracing Austin's motto... Keep Austin weird, right?

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...

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