UMTravels

Just hanging out at the house, taking garbage and recycling to the dump, cooking, cleaning, stringing lights on the bus to light it up for tonight and raking up wind debris from the fire road access and parking area. Dinner is steak and lobster and wine and salad and fresh baked bread. Somehow we forgot [...]

Today’s agenda is to get all the software loaded on the new computer that showed up during the holidays (along with a couple of pairs of really cool Vans that I ordered on Thanksgiving Day).      And maybe drain the hot tub and pick up some more sticks from the yard to add to the [...]

Left the Quillayute River Resort early (well, for me). 9:15 to be exact. Gassed up in Port Angeles at the Safeway, then onto Port Townsend for the 12:45pm ferry to Keystone, then up Whidbey Island, through Deception Pass to Anacortes and the 3:30pm ferry to Lopez. Stopped at the Anacortes Safeway to stock up on [...]

So, as I look out onto the Quilliyute River from my kitchen table — work is on the table today. I haven’t done enough in the last couple of days to pay my bills, so I have to work overtime. Luckily Chip is working on GO Software updates and Linda is pulling downed branches from [...]

Up at 9am, out of the room 11ish and on the road as I’d like to arrive while it’s still light outside. Steak and eggs for breakfast, salad for lunch? So, today’s destination is the Quillayute River Resort — owned by my friends Chip and Linda. Linda is the person that helped me do all [...]

Well, out of bed at 9am for a little coffee. Got to see if the stove (yes, I said stove) will fit in the van. I am looking for a gas stove, and Jon has a Wolf six-burner stove sitting out in the upper field (rusting). About 10am the rain finally stops — and I [...]

A calm day of cooking and reading. Norma and Jon cooking, me reading. Almost through the stack of reading material — down the the latest Popular Mechanics (and now four books after Christmas). We blew through the presents last night since there would be company for dinner tonight. Friends, co-workers, those with no place to [...]

Heading out for my brother and sis-in-law’s house this morning. Will stop at the Sentry Market for the free dozen eggs courtesy of the WorldMark local merchant coupon board. Download speeds this morning are in the mid-400′s, but who’s complaining. So, on the way down the coast I stop at Yachats, Oregon, and behind the [...]

9:00 am — Meet with Old City Hall Developers in Tacoma to tour a project that I won’t afford, but would be cool. Link to the project. Well — 14 miles outside of Tacoma got a call from the agent. She’s running late and can’t make it today.   10:30 am — Drop off keys [...]

Where does the time go during the holidaze booze and buffet season? Before you know it, it’s the next day and you’ve found that you bought a house. Work, errands, Greg and Patsy’s for dinner. All before you know it. Tomorrow is the start of the holiday trek around the Northwest. Got to get an [...]

Work. Sign Papers, close on new house after we get back from Hawai’i. Drink  Moet White Star Champagne with the neurologist/real estate agent. Now THERE is a weird mix of professions. Work. Start pealing potatoes, slicing onions, making the sauce for the Potatoes Au Gratin for the wine potluck tonight. Oy, more potatoes. Home by [...]

You know, this work thing is getting to me. If it weren’t for the flexibility to test reception at the new house by dragging the laptop over there and testing the signal — oh, what am I complaining about. Life is good. Weird, wired, but good. Reception at the new house for T-Mobile and Cingular [...]

So — I get this email this morning. Buy my house. My friend Wonderful Jeff, who I’m going to Hawai’i with next month sends me email. Buy my house. He found a house he likes on Beacon Hill that was only $135,000 over his budget… and he is signing papers at 3pm. Guess I know [...]

On the computer working most of today, then in the car on the ferry, then the run down the freeway to the city. No photos, no time. Things to do and people to see. Like Jill who is dropping off her food processor so we can make latkes tomorrow night for the Annual Tequila and [...]

A better start to the morning. Both of us slept in the reasonable warm bus. I’m not heating the “Great Room” because it cost like $200 a month for that room. Day two of the land cleanup from the November and December storms. You saw the pictures from yesterday morning, now there are pictures from [...]

So. Today is all about branches, at least for Julian who is out cleaning up the yard. Oy, what a mess!                               A dinner menu of baked chicken, salad, and homemade bread — and, of course, wine — a Zinfandel from Tres Dindons made with grapes from California’s Central Valley.

So here I am, typing away, laptop on the steering wheel, logged in to the Internet. Very weird, but time-saving, though it’s playing havoc with catching up on the Wall Street Journal. Was up at 5:15 this morning and out of the house by 5:45 — driving through tons of downed branches. Good thing I [...]

It’s amazing what has happened this winter. It’s a good thing Julian is coming out to start the cleaning up process. I think that he has more than two days of work — but that’s all I get this trip. The latest damage has totally blocked the main path to the parking area. Good thing [...]

Shower, breakfast, pack, out the door by 10 for a stop at the Dog Man in Aberdeen — well, maybe a light breakfast. Need to swing through Oly to drop off the present I forgot to give Curt, then Boeing Surplus for more routers, then to the apartment to pick up packages to mail to the [...]

Scrambled eggs for breakfast — which was after the conference call with the Twango Marketing Team. Reports to rough out, events to plan, emails to pluck mailing info out of. Just another day at the beach. Today we are between storms. Another one coming in tonight. Today’s picture is of a much calmer beach, though [...]