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Pointscoring
Latest batch of Frequent Flyer points have come in, and what with one thing and another I've got enough for a round the world ticket.
Finding seats on useful flights might be a different kettle of fish.
On tenterhooks about the Zuji competetion. I got an email from them this morning, and my heart started pounding away. But it was just a note about some cheap flights.
And then this afternoon i got a call from Kelloggs. I've been buying up packs of Special-K and pursuing the optimum route for maximising my chances right from the start. The first prize draw was yesterday. This woman said that I'd been making a lot of entries - which I have, the maximum five per day allowed, and I've now got a year's worth of Special-K stored in the shed - and asked me if I was associated with Kellogs and whether I was keeping the actual packets. No and Yes to these questions. She made some comment about maybe getting back to me in future.
I'm new at this, so I don't know if this is normal.
It's encouraging, anyway. I looked at the terms and conditions, worked out the optimum strategy, and I infer from this phone call that I'm one of a small number who have done this.
In other news, I spent today doing a lot more tidy-up than normal, and Mum and her sister turned up about five. Lovely to see them again. Mum's just Mum, but her sister has always been my favorite aunt. A long retired nurse, she always has a smile. Just a happy personality. A widow now, she's been travelling to see relatives interstate with Mum, the two sisters sleeping in a variety of guest rooms.
We've put them in our new bed, Mum having a recent operation that makes her pretty fragile, and she'll appreciate the firm mattress. Kerr's dossed down in the computer room and I'm about to hit the sack here in my bookroom.
Finding seats on useful flights might be a different kettle of fish.
On tenterhooks about the Zuji competetion. I got an email from them this morning, and my heart started pounding away. But it was just a note about some cheap flights.
And then this afternoon i got a call from Kelloggs. I've been buying up packs of Special-K and pursuing the optimum route for maximising my chances right from the start. The first prize draw was yesterday. This woman said that I'd been making a lot of entries - which I have, the maximum five per day allowed, and I've now got a year's worth of Special-K stored in the shed - and asked me if I was associated with Kellogs and whether I was keeping the actual packets. No and Yes to these questions. She made some comment about maybe getting back to me in future.
I'm new at this, so I don't know if this is normal.
It's encouraging, anyway. I looked at the terms and conditions, worked out the optimum strategy, and I infer from this phone call that I'm one of a small number who have done this.
In other news, I spent today doing a lot more tidy-up than normal, and Mum and her sister turned up about five. Lovely to see them again. Mum's just Mum, but her sister has always been my favorite aunt. A long retired nurse, she always has a smile. Just a happy personality. A widow now, she's been travelling to see relatives interstate with Mum, the two sisters sleeping in a variety of guest rooms.
We've put them in our new bed, Mum having a recent operation that makes her pretty fragile, and she'll appreciate the firm mattress. Kerr's dossed down in the computer room and I'm about to hit the sack here in my bookroom.
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http://www.webnuns.org/grun/arch_thread_GID4_TID8211.htm
and
http://www.whimsplace.com/061503/technosociety.htm
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I have begun reading your book about bookcrossing through New Zealand and I'm enjoying it very much. I look forward to your next BC/Travel book.
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The Zuji thing is a competition an online travel agency is running where people write a short travel story for the chance to win one of four packages of $10 000 travel. If you go to http://www.zuji.com.au/travelsecrets and enter "London" in the search box, my entry is under "Activities" (you'll have to choose "see all") with the title "Everything but Free Parking".
I'm hoping for this one, because there were only about 750 entries in total, about half of them didn't meet the terms and conditions (you had to submit at least a hundred words and a photograph), and mine (if I do say so myself), should be among the finalists.
I think I've got a one in ten shot of winning.
The Kelloggs thing, I read the terms and conditions very carefully, picked the optimum strategy for the lowest cost (I actually like the product and it has a shelf-life of a year, so I could stock up and enter early), and they draw one prize every day for the next fifty days.
I try to play to my skills, rather than just enter as many times as possible. There are sites that give information on competitions and we share tips.
Kelloggs
The comping world is full of conmen and cheats, sadly! Greed is a terrible thing!
I hope you win and they will probably be astounded by your shed full of SpecialK!
People rarely follow the rules, but cheats never prosper!
I have a cupboard full of sugar atm so I could get 12 months subscriptions to 2 magazines, sugar is much cheaper then mag subs!
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(Anonymous) 2005-11-16 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)Please don't become a scary housebound eccentric, whiling away your years trying to win competitions.
Bron, poking Pete anxiously.
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Besides which, Wombles is more of a comper than I am, and she's about as level-headed as they come.