The more you know ™

Hint for the day:

Try not to get 15 weeks behind on your expense reports, especially if you travel a lot.

Edited to add: My trip last week put me over 500k lifetime miles on American. That's pretty good considering there are no credit card miles in there. Just airline mile (plus bonus miles, which are significant) and rental car points (very insignificant).

If I get to 1M lifetime miles, I'll be lifetime gold. That would take at least three years of this crazy travel schedule, and I don't know that I have it in me.

Obama grandmama

Barack Obama's grandmother passed away. It'd be sad enough anyway, but the day before election day must be ridiculously hard. I can't imagine that kind of personal emotion on top of all the stress and exhaustion and emotion he must already be feeling.