Funny you should say that, steve, because I just got off the phone with the Chase reconsideration line and am now waiting on two shiny new SW cards to arrive in the mail. Will certainly wait until 1/1/16 to meet the spend.
I'm sad that Chase isn't the UR/SW spigot that it used to be. I was frustrated by having to call, but free plane tickets for two years outweighs that, I guess.