Flight Giveaway

One final flight giveaway left this year. It can be one-way or round-trip, but the total must be under $400. Like the last one, this VERY generous gift is courtesy of Assaf the king of spending. Thank you so much, man, for being such a good friend of the blog. The flight must be booked by the end of this month.

I’ll pick one reader at random on Sunday night. Here’s the requirement to enter…

Send me an email to the address below. The subject should be “Assaf Flight Giveaway.” In the email, please share with me why you love or hate your job. The specific reason.  If you don’t feel that strongly about your job (or don’t have one), then please share with me why specifically you love something…anything…in your life.

Shit, if nothing else, I’m curious about people. These answers will be part of a very long-term writing project I’m working on. If you actually put some thought into your response, it will be very helpful to me. Entries are due Sunday morning. Thanks and good luck!

Black Friday Hotel Deals

I heard from Tom over at Extreme Hotel Deals last week. He wanted me to mention a couple of resources that might be helpful to MileNerd readers. The first is a VERY detailed list of Black Friday/Cyber Monday hotel deals. And the other is a monthly list of hotel status match opportunities. Obviously, I wouldn’t share these links if they weren’t good. But I checked both out and it’s impressive stuff. Worth taking a look.

 

Catching Up After The Weekend

  • If you’re from California and have never flown Alaska…here’ s 5,000 easy bonus miles for your first flight.
  • It’s even easier to pick up 4 bucks from Sears for each Uber ride.
  • Never that easy to win a contest. But I just can’t quit you, JetBlue.

Sunday Spending

Nerds with Inks are about to be busy again…

  • Get $15 back at Staples when you buy $300 in Visa/MasterCard gift cards.
  • Or $15 back at Office Depot when you buy $300 in Visas.

These are in-store deals from Sunday through Saturday. Both good but Office Depot is the better one to hit (instant discount vs. store gift card). As always, the idea is to get 5 points per dollar spent at office stores. Have a great weekend, nerds!

 

 

Hyatt Double

Spend the millisecond it takes to register here for double Hyatt points through the end of the year.

Other things on my mind…

  • Cats are strange creatures. How confident am I that they won’t murder us one day? Not very.
  • The most underrated condiment is tartar sauce. Sriracha is the most overrated.
  • Are men in 2017 just trying to be as sexually unattractive to women as they can possibly be?
  • Don’t type LOL unless you’re actually laughing out loud. You’re not 7 years old.
  • Why the hell do people hate Guy Fieri so much? Is his blonde spiky hair really that annoying?
  • Lebron James is to Michael Jordan as Tim Allen is to Tom Hanks. There is no debate.
  • The new nervous twitch? Staring at an iPhone. Will the earth stay populated if no two humans ever make eye contact again?