When I write about using credit cards to earn miles/points with airlines and hotel s, aka What's in YOUR wallet?, I always compare the value I get from points cards to what I could earn from a no-annual fee, 2% cash-back card. That's not just a theoretical comparison. I actually own- and use- a no-fee, 2% cash-back card. In fact I have two of them ( Read more... )

A few days ago I posted about the bottle of Piñaq liqueur I bought at Costco. I bought the pre-mixed passion fruit cocktail on a whim, largely because of the bespoke pineapple-shaped bottle. ...Which was kind of strange because it's made with passion fruit, not pineapple. But whatever, it's really catchy. 🤣


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When I was shopping at Costco two weeks ago I did a quick cruise of the booze aisle. Mostly I was walking down the hard liquor aisle to look at beer after turning the corner and come back up the beer aisle, but then at the bottom of the liquor aisle my eye was drawn to a colorful, bespoke bottle. Piñaq liquor.


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As of this morning I'm caught up on blogging about my trips to Los Cabos and Phoenix. Yes, I returned last Sunday. Yes, that means I fell 6 days behind in blogging. Does this mean my blog backlog is cleared? Haha, no. I've still got I-don't-know-how-many entries from New Zealand I still want to publish.

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New Zealand Travelog #40
Auckland, NZ - Sun, 21 Apr 2024, 6pm

A few weeks ago, before we started our trip to New Zealand, I wondered, Are there Costcos in New Zealand? It's not that I'm trying to make a thing of visiting a Costco in every country I travel to but that it'd make a difference in how we packed. There are few things which, if we could ( Read more... )

Since I restarted my beer tasting project recently I figured I could also restart liquor tasting. ...Well, I don't have a specific "project" for liquor tasting. I'm just always curious whenever I have two (or more) bottles of the same kind of liquor, "What do these taste like compared to each other?" In this comparison I sampled two vodkas that ( Read more... )

Well, well, well, my iPhone news reader app is once again watching what I'm reading and trying to give me just more of the same. After I clicked on, I dunno, maybe two articles about Costco in the past week, now it's showing me "Costco" as a news topic:


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A few weeks ago I read in one of my usual haunts on FlyerTalk.com about a new (to me) variety of Rao's pasta sauce. Rao's basic marinara sauce has been a fan favorite among Costco fans for quite some time. I've tried it myself and have been... underwhelmed ( Read more... )

We shopped at Costco today. Yay? I have a sad feeling that may be the highlight of my weekend.

I'm in low spirits lately. I'm deeply dissatisfied with my job, to the point that I've told my boss I am likely to quit if things don't improve. Just when I started to feel good about exercising control over that situation Hawk got bad news that her job ( Read more... )

Australia Travelog #18
Casula, NSW - Wed, 27 Dec 2023, 6:30pm

You're in a foreign country. You're 7,500 miles from home. You've got a car and a free hour in your schedule. What do you do? ...You go to Costco! 🤣


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