Duh!! Now that would've helped!! I am out of LAX. Thanks for chiming in you guys!
I was getting nothing but snide remarks over at the "Trick-It" thread. I don't know what happens to this otherwise friendly and sharing forum when you go there.

@ThunderJon, that's actually what I'm kind of doing too! I'm red-eyeing into ORD, taking the 7am to SFO and then doing a same day back to ORD before flying back to LAX!! Crazy.
Unfortunately I could only find the cheapest O Fare on Tues & Thurs so I've booked up as many as I could on that LAX-ORD-SFO routing but now still need 12000 miles.

@TheBOSman, Thank you! I was lucky that I had the LAX address or I don't know how I would be killing myself right now having missed out on the Jan Promo LOL

@Clacko Thanks, something like that or other creative long-haul ideas... I unfortunately can't use the one you mentioned b/c our Promo challenge has to be completed by 3/31 but I will check out that routing to see what the cpm amounts to.