Pointscoring
Nov. 16th, 2005 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringLatest 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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Date: 2005-11-16 01:34 pm (UTC)Please don't become a scary housebound eccentric, whiling away your years trying to win competitions.
Bron, poking Pete anxiously.
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Date: 2005-11-17 12:36 am (UTC)Besides which, Wombles is more of a comper than I am, and she's about as level-headed as they come.