What did you get in the email today?

[hdporter]

On 6/24/2022 at 6:25 PM, DebtFreeIn04 said:

Barclay Wyndham earner email pre approval 7500 pts. sub. Was 30000 last year 😕. Kinda would like to get my first Barclay card but just not quite enough to get my first Barclay card . 🤣🤣🤣

 

You're sure that 7500 pts isn't the annual reward for $15k spend?  (That the online come-on, with 30k pts as the sub)

[DebtFreeIn04]

37 minutes ago, hdporter said:

 

You're sure that 7500 pts isn't the annual reward for $15k spend?  (That the online come-on, with 30k pts as the sub)

Ya know! I don't know now. The latest was from email talked about 7500 pts I remembered last year the mailer had 30k on outside.  I might not have looked at it hard enough 🤔

[TheVig]

My employer is doing it's part to curb world hunger. Our per diem for meals when traveling has been increased.

 

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by TheVig

[centex]

Damn I miss him...got to play softball against him shortly before his untimely demise. 

[TheVig]

32 minutes ago, centex said:

Damn I miss him...got to play softball against him shortly before his untimely demise. 

 

Imagine if he was still with us. He'd have a field day with our current hot button issues.

[centex]

1 hour ago, TheVig said:

 

Imagine if he was still with us. He'd have a field day with our current hot button issues.

What made that accident so much worse was that he had just turned the corner on the drugs and alcohol and was actually clean, sober AND married.  And arguably even MORE on point with his rants on stage. 

 

Was still funny watching him come up to the plate with that trench coat though...and he could NOT hit worth a damn.  I think we had a dozen swing and a miss just in one at bat...but nobody was going to call him out with the remnants of an Astrodome crowd still watching...

[centex]

Oh and back on topic...notice that my BofA card has been mailed to me. 

[hdporter]

 

3 hours ago, centex said:

Was still funny watching him come up to the plate with that trench coat though...and he could NOT hit worth a damn.  I think we had a dozen swing and a miss just in one at bat...but nobody was going to call him out with the remnants of an Astrodome crowd still watching...

 

Sorry for digressing back, but sounds like the game captured on this video:  

 

(The event is KLOL’s Rock and Roll Softball Championship Of The World held at the Houston Astrodome on September 2, 1990.  Start in about the 34:00 mark and you'll pick up on Kinison at bat ... added comic relief from Meat Loaf.  Kinison is back at bat after the 1:15:00)

 

Are we to believe a member of this board was "immortalized" on this video as well?

 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by hdporter

[centex]

I can attest to being in that video and getting to play on that crappy, err I mean glorious, AstroTurf, which was about like running on wet sand.  The suite during the Astros game was a small riot...and was one of the first real instances I had gotten to see a lot of 'celebs' just being 'people.' Meat Loaf was chill as all get out and his wife was really nice.  I spent time next to Fee Waybill.  

 

After the game, many of us went to a local steak house that I think Keith paid for, and I had a couple of 'names' in my car afterwards as we tried to figure where in the hell Kinnison was taking the stage.  I got nominated to drive since I was local...we never did find him, although we found some third-stringer that had just been cut from the Oilers (may have been Reggie Slack).  He wasn't a whole lot of fun to be around, understandably so I guess...

 

Mike Tramp called it an early night...and I don't mean wee hours early...I mean back in the hotel before midnight.  And sadly, that evening would be the last time I saw Kym Coleman (killed in a small plane accident a couple of years later).   

 

The game the next year was actually better, but the video got 'lost' and was never available.  Somewhere at the house, I had the first one on VHS but I doubt I have looked at it in close to 30 years. 

[hdporter]

Net "bucket list" item:  catch a few beers with @centex

 

(Once made a point of doing lunch with "cv"; proved to be highlight of trip.  I figure a meet with centex would call for a less constrained scenario where a little time and alcohol would cut loose a few good tales.  And, just to ensure no wrong signals, Bev would be tight by my side ... and she doesn't "share" )

[centex]

12 hours ago, hdporter said:

Net "bucket list" item:  catch a few beers with @centex

 

(Once made a point of doing lunch with "cv"; proved to be highlight of trip.  I figure a meet with centex would call for a less constrained scenario where a little time and alcohol would cut loose a few good tales.  And, just to ensure no wrong signals, Bev would be tight by my side ... and she doesn't "share" )

Oh, I could regale you with tales of being one of the people called upon for a question in a CSPAN segment close to forty years ago...or maybe the time close to 50 years ago that I was on the Bozo the Clown Show that got produced in Houston...riveting stuff, I tell ya

 

I doubt you would be interested in the experiences from filing Tin Cup.  But it DID and does put me two degrees from Kevin Bacon...

 

 

[hdporter]

10 hours ago, centex said:

Oh, I could regale you with tales of being one of the people called upon for a question in a CSPAN segment close to forty years ago...or maybe the time close to 50 years ago that I was on the Bozo the Clown Show that got produced in Houston...riveting stuff, I tell ya

 

I doubt you would be interested in the experiences from filing Tin Cup.  But it DID and does put me two degrees from Kevin Bacon...

 

OMG, the mere mention of a "C-SPAN question segment" sets my eyes rolling.  Mind you, it wasn't until a lapse in employment a good ten years after your call that I started tuning into C-SPAN occasionally, the but viewer call segments would simply blow my mind ... they were the precursor to "reality TV" programming!

 

(I get you may be talking about an "in-person" experience.  But I gotta tell you, those call-in shows were the foreshadowing of politics to come ... (figure I can get away with that much here )

 

In any case, however such a proverbial meet might transpire (and my interest is piqued by both the "Bozo" appearance and the Tin Cup experience ) I'd gladly chance the risk of a "flat" encounter.  (Unfortunately, unlike San Diego which I have cause to hit once or twice a year), Houston hasn't traditionally been one of my stomping grounds.)

[centex]

On 7/8/2022 at 7:02 PM, hdporter said:

 

OMG, the mere mention of a "C-SPAN question segment" sets my eyes rolling.  Mind you, it wasn't until a lapse in employment a good ten years after your call that I started tuning into C-SPAN occasionally, the but viewer call segments would simply blow my mind ... they were the precursor to "reality TV" programming!

 

(I get you may be talking about an "in-person" experience.  But I gotta tell you, those call-in shows were the foreshadowing of politics to come ... (figure I can get away with that much here )

 

In any case, however such a proverbial meet might transpire (and my interest is piqued by both the "Bozo" appearance and the Tin Cup experience ) I'd gladly chance the risk of a "flat" encounter.  (Unfortunately, unlike San Diego which I have cause to hit once or twice a year), Houston hasn't traditionally been one of my stomping grounds.)

It was one of those live panels that they bring the kids in for during the national Close-Up program...yeah, I was one of those nerds who did local and national close-up in addition to other academic things.  The cool part was that it was in the middle of the 1984 national election cycle.  

 

But yeah, I know what you mean about that early days period of 'call in' programs.  

 

Tin Cup had many interesting twists, although pretending it was 100 in North Carolina when it was 30 in the Kingwood, Texas, area was a challenge...I learned that a glass soda bottle filled with coffee makes an excellent hand warmer though.  I ALSO learned that Don Johnson was NOT a good striker of the golf ball...although Costner hit several of his own golf shots in the movie.  The funny thing about the overall experience was I had an agency director who interviewed me a few years later and was more impressed by THAT element of the resume than the rest of my career with the agency.  Sometimes those unique experiences for which we get paid CAN be a benefit... 

[centex]

Back on track...

 

NASA FCU is enticing me with what amount to 10% back between now and the end of August, up to $1K in spend. 

 

Spend $250, get $25

Spend $500, get $50

Spend $1K, get $100

 

Funds to be deposited into the NASA savings account by the end of September.  No added bonus for spend over $1K. 

 

Looks like more free money for me...

[TheVig]

Status / Match upgrade offer from IHG.

[hegemony]

On 7/12/2022 at 11:41 AM, centex said:

Back on track...

 

NASA FCU is enticing me with what amount to 10% back between now and the end of August, up to $1K in spend. 

 

Spend $250, get $25

Spend $500, get $50

Spend $1K, get $100

 

Funds to be deposited into the NASA savings account by the end of September.  No added bonus for spend over $1K. 

 

Looks like more free money for me...

 

I hit this already. diversity has its benefits

[hegemony]

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[StarkRaven$]

On 7/7/2022 at 7:31 PM, hdporter said:

Net "bucket list" item:  catch a few beers with @centex

 

(Once made a point of doing lunch with "cv"; proved to be highlight of trip.  I figure a meet with centex would call for a less constrained scenario where a little time and alcohol would cut loose a few good tales.  And, just to ensure no wrong signals, Bev would be tight by my side ... and she doesn't "share"  

How is CV I wonder? Haven't heard from him in a long time.

Edited July 15, 2022 by StarkRaven$

[StarkRaven$]

On 7/7/2022 at 10:39 AM, TheVig said:

My employer is doing it's part to curb world hunger. Our per diem for meals when traveling has been increased.

 

 

One of my all time favs.

[TheVig]

Citi offer to change my DC to the Custom Cash.

 

No thanks. I'd rather have the card in addition to my DC and Premier. 

[TheVig]

Purchase alert from Amex. Delta Gold card. Someone on Lowe's dot com made a purchase north of $1200. I immediately called Amex. New card on the way.

 

Amex had me log into my Lowe's account to see if there was a purchase history. None. Nor was any cards stored online.

 

It's been many years since I've had a fraudulent charge on any issuer. I was over due for it I guess.

[DebtFreeIn04]

2 hours ago, TheVig said:

Purchase alert from Amex. Delta Gold card. Someone on Lowe's dot com made a purchase north of $1200. I immediately called Amex. New card on the way.

 

Amex had me log into my Lowe's account to see if there was a purchase history. None. Nor was any cards stored online.

 

It's been many years since I've had a fraudulent charge on any issuer. I was over due for it I guess.

😳

[TheVig]

Cheap vacation, and pick up some extra points. Saying NO for a couple of hours is easy.

 

 

 

[TheVig]

[TheVig]

Chase offering a one time statement credit to switch to paperless.

 

Nope.