Spring is springing around here. Nettles and dandelions are poking through my raised beds. Grasses are stubbornly shooting through the cracks in between my patio bricks. There is a strange yellow orb in the sky where the clouds used to be. The air is warm and redolent with Pollen and other allergens. And the miles […]
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Please excuse the shortened format tonight. Please also forgive me the lack of funny pictures. You see the Dividend clan decided to go for a last-minute memorial day vacation up to Seattle. A Priceline Westin room near our favorite Taiwanese Shanghainese soup dumpling place for 150 bucks, a stroll through the Chihuly Gardens with their […]
Shangri-La
We don’t live in an ideal world. That’s for sure. Life is messy and requires compromises and grit and overcoming obstacles and all of that. No endeavor worth pursuing is without its own trials and tribulations. And of course the miles game is no different. If you play the miles game, as I play it, […]
Homerism (and notes)
I’m rereading The Four Pillars Of Investing by William Bernstein. This is a terrific book, that I highly recommend everyone interested in investing to read at least once. Bernstein is a remarkable mind who is able to take complex economic history and theory and calculations and distill them all down into a very readable and […]
Deja Vu All Over Again and Credit Card Stock Picking…
Another month, another churn. The Dividend family completed another seven Card churn last week (this time in my wife’s name.) And the results are in, so why not do a bit of a review? Below are seven cards that we applied for. If the cards look familiar its because they are identical to the “highroller […]
As the World Churns
As a physician there’s the pervasive concept of continuing medical education. Because medicine is scientifically-based, and science is constantly evolving and changing, in order to practice current medicine you must continue to learn long after you’re done with your formal training. So we doctors peruse scientific journals, we have journal clubs, we go to societal […]
Step Back from the Edge…
In general I enjoy writing about ideas and philosophy more than writing nitty-gritty tutorials about how to do something. But I firmly believe that The Miles Game is a great and even motivating skill set for someone with the propensity to pursue financial independence. And more than a few of my readers and friends have […]
Unloading
I had a great conversation today with Brad over at richmondsavers.com. He was kind enough to offer me some great advice on my plans to retrofit the architecture of this site. As miles game geeks are wont to do, we of course got to talking about credit card offers, and manufactured spending, and the whole […]
Churning Tricks
Enough philosophical handwringing. Enough ethical self inspection. Enough of the world and it’s large problems. (And my piddly solutions.) Tonight, for a change of pace, for something simple and escapist. Philosophy is for losers… Tonight I will check in on the status of my recent round of credit card applications, and detail how I will […]
Leap of Faith (Flowchart)
Note: The miles game is constantly changing. As of now you can no longer buy Vanilla Reloads with credit card at CVS, and vanilla brand Visa cards can no longer be used to reload bluebird at Walmart. (6/21/14) Today I was emailing with a friend who also plays the miles game and is […]
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