Introduction I had VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS for Alinea. This was on the top of my list of restaurants I wanted to go to (French Laundry being second.) I was headed to Chicago in late August, and searched how to get tickets. I found out they opened up their online reservation system on the 15th of […]
Introduction Since this was a cat 4 hotel, I used a Chase Hyatt annual certificate for a 1 night stay since I had no destinations planned with a Hyatt category 4. We got to the hotel at around 11AM, and we immediately noticed there was a convention going on. The hotel lobby area was HUGE […]
Introduction I had amassed something like 100K Club Carlson from the cc signups back in the day, but never got around to using them all up. Well, the Radisson Blu Chicago is highly rated due to the location as well as just being a really nice hotel. I had booked 2 nights here initially, but […]
Introduction A while back, I wrote about the SNES Classic pre-orders, and I’m sure most of you forgot about it. Well, it turned out that Best Buy had the preorder up on Monday night for about 15 minutes. I was able to grab a handful there. Then I heard that Amazon went live some time […]
Introduction After getting hit with so many NSF fees this year, a reader suggested I sign up for a line of credit at my CU to help mitigate some of the fees. And that’s what I did. Signing up It varies with every bank, but my CU allowed me to open a new account […]