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[quote]I find the best use of points is airline though. Hotels runm to be a poor redemption value in comparison[/quote] Thanks for the run down above, but if this is the case then maybe I'll just pay for the hotel and get my flight with the points and save my points I would have used for the hote...

[quote]Choice, Hilton, and SPG are the partners[/quote] So I'm planning on staying at the "Grand Residences by Marriott" in Lake Tahoe. Will I not be able to use points to book this room?...

Thanks for the recommendation, will download the audiobook. ...

Just looked up The Leaders's Bookshelf, looks interesting. Gonna give that a look. ...

I'll be following this. I have over 200K Amex points and am going to Tahoe in February. Need to book my flights and hotel stay here soon but have never used points for anything in my life. ...

I was in the top 4 the other day with a great load out and got thrown off a mountain by a glitch on a zipline. Pretty cool. ...

[quote]Read those. Great books!![/quote] The Road by Cormac McCarthy is an obvious suggestions, but I'm sure you've read that one already. ...

Yep, one of my favorite books ever. The entire Asian Saga is supposed to be great but the only one I've read so far is Shogun. ...

One Second After by William Forstchen, and the following 2 books One Year After and The Final Day. ...

The majority of the cost is just going to be his age and the bulk of the cost will be on the liability coverage, which is mandatory. The best you can really do is get him an old enough car/non financed car to where full coverage isn't necessary. ...

Shelby Foote trilogy. ...

I listen to a lot of audio books on overdrive through my library. I listened to the first book, and to my surprise they don't have the second book, but then they have the damn third book. Pretty mind blowing to have the 1st and 3rd of a series but not the 2nd. That's what prompted my search and p...

Surprised I actually found an even halfway recent post on this. I was looking in to how I could get back in to the torrent game, specifically for audiobooks. The last time I've downloaded a torrent was years ago using piratebay and utorrent. I ran across the MyAnonymouse site that everyone se...

Is your comprehension so horrific in other mediums, or just film? ...

Were you remapped into a flood zone?...

[quote]I love my Sony RX100. Huge sensor and it fits inside your pocket.[/quote] Which one? Any noticeable difference from the $400 version IV and the $1000 version VI? There seems to be different versions of the RX100 that vary wildly in price. ...

Was it the first of multiple seasons? I enjoyed it but seemed like a 1 season miniseries to me the way it wrapped up. ...

Listening to the audio books now after seeing all of the movies multiple times. Just finished The Order of the Pheonix. I am enjoying them. But my word is Hermione's obsession with "elf rights" bruuuuuutal in the books. Great call omitting that from the movies, should have been omitted from the book...

[quote]Go to Squaw Valley and take Tram to High Camp for the proposal. Very cool spot. [/quote] Nice, thanks for the recommendation I'll check it out. I was liking the Edgewood recommendation from earlier too. ...

From what I’ve read online March is sort of a winding down month between peak winter and the Spring/summer. I’ve read crowds/prices are down in March. That’s strictly from online research though as I’ve never been. ...