Faithful Readers, this will be a relatively short post, as I barely have an excuse to start writing, much less any actual information to convey. As has so often proven to be the case, I am tremendously excited about every bit of nothing I'm about to let all ya'll in on!
To start this little shafizzle® off (Shafizzle®: polar opposite of a shabang!) I gotta start with a little victory squiggle: I managed to get Dark Lord Day tickets this year! Woot! There's rumours floating about that tickets were popping for hours after they went on sale due to some technical difficulties at eTix.com, but I'm going to put it all on my technical prowess and my multiple device strategy: Ten minutes prior to 12 PM CST, I had my computer, my N7 tablet and my Pixel all loaded up on the sale page and spread out on my desk.
I'd decided before the tix went on sale to shoot for Group D (3pm to 5pm.) From what I've heard, this may limit my chances of getting a BA variant. However, having worked the overnight shift at AMZN for years, this dramatically improves my chances of actually showing up on time and not losing my entire allotment. Scheduling my arrival for a civilized time of day also dramatically improves the odds that I'll enjoy the venture, as well as act as mostly functional human being.
Having snagged a pair of tickets, I immediately went to Hotels.com to try booking a room. If you've attended this event, you likely think that's ridiculous, but since 3Floyds moved the event back a couple weeks this year, there were rooms available. Mebbe not very good rooms, but I was able to get a two queen bed double occupancy room at Best Western in Hammond for $95. Sketchy neighborhood but not as skeezy as the Motel 6 next door. And due to a slight misunderstanding, my buddy who is taking the second ticket got a room at the Motel 6 AFTER I emailed to let him know I had tix. LOL And OK, the two motels have nearly identical 3.2 Google ratings. but I've stayed at the Motel 6 and was less than impressed. The Best Western couldn't be worse unless the water heater explodes.The better hotels in Hammond were more than twice the price and none of them had rooms with two beds available. I do love my buddy Stevie, but he likes to cuddle when he's been drinking, so we definitely need a room with two beds!
So tickets nailed, room booked. Plenty of research to be done, though all of it trivial: drive to event, so the car is available to stow bottles, then uber back next day? uber to event, then back to hotel to drop bottles, then uber back to finish the night??? And then you hit the bottle-share aspect of the event: how many can I carry, and how many do I need for the line before I get my wrist-band and bottles? Entirely first ticket worries...a little research and common sense will prevail. (Or I'll just muck it up entirely...gonna be fun regardless!)
And on to a completely different topic: Yelp has added a "rewards card" type program that doesn't require you to carry around a rewards card...you just pay your check with the credit card you would normally use for dining out. Poof! you've got cash back!
You don't carry a rewards card, you link your credit card to the app. So yeah, you are giving Yelp access to ALL your spendung, For 10% cash back on your purchases with that card? no scanning, no "i have a coupon" Just you out having a bite, and using your favorite card to pay.
Thank you, faithful readers we'll meet again soon!
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