I did book that HKG flight and my friend will accommodate me for the two nights.
i also found a very good rate for MIA-LAX-MIA $270. I leave on a September Saturday evening, arriving 10:30 pm, leave LAX at 12:15 am arriving back in MIA on Sunday morning. A true mileage run. Hopefully I will get my complimentary upgrades or my back might not hold out. I'm going to hold off on booking another flight to make up the addition 2K miles because I'm hoping some work trips will pop up.
I decided to go for it as my work travel is really going to slow down in the next year or two and it will get just too hard to try and keep up the status without work travel. So I hope to enjoy it one more year.