If you are traveling in 2015, what you need to do this weekend is take a look at your current airline and hotel program use and make appropriate adjustments to your earning to be sure you are maximizing status opportunities. With eight months left, you still have plenty of time to make travel plans that…
Last night I had the amazing opportunity to attend a customer preview event for the new American 787 Dreamliner. The inaugural flight takes place next Thursday, but this week was a chance to explore the plane while she still has her new plane smell. The preview event was held in a hangar on the east…
Uber is hailed by many as the example of what the service workforce of the future could be. On demand, scalable, inexpensive, and easily replaceable. That last part is the ugly side of the ridesharing economy. While my adventures in driving have been few and far between since my “how much does a driver make” experiment…
I like Bali. The part I like most is the part that is less traversed. It seems like everyone has been to the southern part of the island. And more individuals have discovered Ubud since Elizabeth Gilbert put it on the map in Eat Pray Love. But a majority of visitors to this island paradise…
I’m back… or rather, my online presence is. While I have been here and as busy as ever, my digital life has been cramped thanks to the health of not one but BOTH of my personal computers. First my Mac decided to go into critical care mode just as I was working on my taxes. (Not…
Ten dollars. Ten lousy dollars. That’s the margin by which I feel that the valet at the Crescent Hotel in Dallas (a Rosewood luxury property) decided to draw a line in the sand about valet charges on Thursday night. Let me explain… I went to the Crescent after work with plans to attend an alumni…
I have not been trapped under a large piece of furniture, contrary to what one might assume. Although if I were to be trapped under a large piece of furniture, I’d like to imagine it would be something ridiculously obscure like a sarcophagus or a pipe organ. I became slightly obsessed with the idea of…
My personal laptop died this week, mere minutes after I had just moved everything on my local drive to Dropbox. The timing couldn’t have been stranger. The screen went black and then when I tried to reboot it, smoke started coming out of the keyboard. My Mac had met a similar fate a couple months…
Breathe. That’s the advice I give myself every morning when I wake up. It’s one thing I know I can do. I’ve been lax in posting the past couple of weeks as I’ve made a major career shift and I’m anticipating a couple of months in the weeds as I wind down my old practice…
This isn’t new, but it doesn’t ever fail to make me laugh when I see one of these in my social media feed. And finally I saw the full collection from Buzzfeed and realized that some of the real gems had not yet caught my attention. Yes, I get a kick out of how people…
Its the end of the first weekend of March Madness. My bracket is still fairly intact except for Kansas. (Rock Chalk Jayhawk was not giving me any love today!) And that’s just the beginning of the weekly update. I’m one week down in my new position at a new firm and settling in nicely. I…
File under bizarre… a Maryland man used GoFundMe to pay for a trip to Miami so that he could follow his 22 year old girlfriend on her spring break trip, as reported to the Daily Mail. His fundraising page shows he raised $360 of his $300 goal and made it to Miami to track her down. He…