Will you be able to make dinner that week?

I'll be at the Freddies - got multiple reasons for going this year. I may have to cancel as I don't know my schedule, but I booked an award ticket (using 25K UA miles from an account that only had 26K in it) & got a hotel 1/2 mile from the Wyndham (which is running a $200+ rate - yikes - talk about not trying to generate trial & loyalty from FT'ers!)

As for flying UA - I do hate them & they make life for me difficult though I'm not sure why. But they're a preferred provider for work & they're good for east coast short hauls, sitting in coach on a tiny RJ out of IAD - I've already flown over 15k eqms on them this year, in fact - had my luggage lost only twice with them (and once with DL - and January isn't even over yet). PremEx status is also nice when you're flying other *A partners, but now I'm seriously contemplating making the switch to BD as *Gold is easily attained with them.

My ticket is an award ticket on a nonstop in both directions from a now almost empty family member's account whose miles were expiring this year anyways, so I only paid UA $5.00 in fees for this. I'm still sitting on 2 x $25 certs, a $150, and now a $350 & an eSWU (from the NZ trip - although more may be coming as this was all done between the time I sent them a letter & them probably recieving & processing it - the 350 was off a SkyKit & the SWU was from a CSM at SFO - which, if they read & take action on, will probably result in more - I don't want cash vouchers - that means I have to pay the difference out of my own pocket & I don't want to give UA any of my personal money - company money I'm okay with - my money, I'm not - I'd be satisfied if they apologized & gave me my 30K UG miles back).