UMTravels

Breakfast was challah french toast (or would that be freedom toast). Lunch will be the leftover chicken legs, and dinner will be steaks on the grill, potatoes from the oven, and salad from the bag. Seriously blustery. 40mph (5pm update — make that 65mph) winds for so, made the Seattle news. Sand blowing into your [...]

It was a very late night last night. 3:30am. Misplaced the car (not mine). Walked home. Slept until noon then headed towards Ocean Shores. My favorite hot dog stand (The Dog Man)�in Aberdeen was closed, so I’ll have to hit that on the way back to Seattle. Will also have to go back to Boeing [...]

So, this is a really short blog entry as we work our way across town to Martin and Brians for this month’s poker game. This is a test of the EVDO system while in motion. No, I’m not driving. Curt is. ============================= Basically it has been a lazy day, doing the laundry and dishes, remaking [...]

Too much work. Brain hurts. Make it end. Well, that ain’t gonna happen so I just have to suck up and get it done. Did take a lunch break and go buy some more pieces for my dining set at the church from John Weber at Sugar Run Clayworks. I left the ten black seconds, [...]

When it rains, it pours — clients that is. Morning of working on Shirts of Bamboo issues, along with research questions for Twango. Lunch meeting with Kristina of Kristina Hagman Painter/Printmaker to do updates to her website. Afternoon back to the major clients. Evening is a dinner meeting with MoonSong on branding his new bakery [...]

So — I’m so tired of unreliable Internet access while on the road and in Seattle as well. The Wi-Fire high gain antenna is great, but it still requires munching off someone else’s connection that may or may not be reliable, or even available. And the backup of the T-Mobile GPRS/Edge card means I can’t [...]

Four dollars for the airport shuttle — hell, even with a 25% tip, that’s five bucks to get to the airport. Should have arranged for them to deliver me to the hotel on the way in. Got upgraded to First Class — seat 1D, bulkhead aisle. There were extra seats in First Class. Only 8 [...]

So, today’s amusement between work stints was a long walk around downtown, probably an 8 block area (8×8) to photograph all the motel signs. I got this idea from the two that I can see from my new room. I didn’t realize that I’d end up filling up an entire memory card with 44 different [...]

Greetings from Reno. So far, I’m up $75 without stepping into a casino, unless you count the Reno airport where there are slot machines by all the gates. I had planned on a “presentation” at 11am with the Trendwest folks in exchange for $75. 45 minutes, $75 — sounded like a good deal. An even [...]

Packing in the morning. Off to the airport without looking at the bus schedule, forgetting it is Saturday with means half an hour between runs — I take the local since I have my lightweight jacket on rather the the Antarctic Parka (it’s in the van in the garage). Out of the house without looking [...]

Takes a while for the church to warm up — and that’s only the back room. I’m not bothering to heat the front room this winter. That in itself almost pays for the city apartment! So… the damage from the storm. LOTS of downed limbs. Julian will be busy the weekend of the 16th chipping [...]