Before the bank changed the credit card bonus points regime yesterday and halved the number of frequent flyer points you can swap them for, I swapped almost all of them. I was kind of hoping I’d have enough to one day go over to Europe on points. Or if part of a bigger expedition, at least pay for my ticket. I didn’t get around to doing an exact calculation beforehand, but somehow have ended up with just over the required 110,000 points in my frequent flyer account. Woo hoo! Not planning to go any time soon, but at least the points are in there now.

Since my clock radio has broken, I decided I’d save the last 18,000 points for a replacement model. I hit the Sony web site and discovered the one on offer for my 18,000 points has an RRP of $109, so when it arrives, I’m expecting for a pretty damn nice clock radio. In this life I doubt I’d ever spend that much on a clock radio. At that price it should make the tea and iron a shirt in the morning for me.

I realised that of the many points flying around the place, probably 80 or 90K have been earnt on my credit cards over the last 10 years or so. That staggers me, really. 80,000 dollars has passed through those cards. I suppose I put a lot of groceries and car maintenance (ka-ching!) and air tickets and other stuff on the cards, but it still seems like a lot. Thank goodness I manage to pay them off completely every month. Well, when I remember to by the deadline…

And now, courtesy of my day off yesterday, here is my fridge. Move your mouse around over it to see the captions.

Ren reckons this would make a good Meme. Yeah, why not. Go for it guys, do your fridges this week, Trackback/leave comments. And I’ll come up with another one for next weekend.