UMTravels

Between a long flight, and the international date line, today has been cancelled.
And since the day is missing, here is some reading for you from Jimmy the stillmaster.
Craft Brewers Turn to Whiskey Chasers
THE bar at the Rogue House of Spirits, a craft distillery in this coastal town about a 135-mile drive from Portland, is crowded [...]

By 10am I actually had all my tax stuff organized for my CPA to deal with. I would publicly like to thank Jill Arnow for being bored at the church last week and going through my box of unorganized papers and organizing them into various piles that actually made sense, and made the tax stuff [...]

Josh is back on the job site today and banging around. By the end of the day 98% of the drywall is hung (kitchen sink area and a couple of patches left), and some of the edging is on. Power has been run for the new location for the refrigerator and the dishwasher.
The place is [...]

Julian left the apartment to work on the house earlier than I. Sent him with a long list of things to do. I stayed to work on paying bills and organizing tax stuff and joined him around noon.
My job for the day was to get the plumbing for the kitchen reconfigured to a more standard [...]

Work on the house during the day, opera with Space Otter in the evening (Julius Caesar).
One of the things I need to do is get St. Rose of Lima out of the van. It is going to Jeff’s place, but, gee, since it’s Saint Rose, shouldn’t it stay at the Rose Street House? A dilemma. [...]

Today’s agenda…. talk Josh (Josh’s Woodworking) into getting several projects done on the house. He wants to go under the house and jack it up, I’m for just leveling everything else. New bad door, the pocket door to the utility room, garage door opener put in, and the two wall modifications.
Item two: rip out the [...]

How many times to I get to use that title.
Greenfire Candles is taking way more time than I imagined once I got into it. New labels, new sizes, everything needing tweaks. And I haven’t even started on the website changes. That I can do in the ferry line.
Jill made breakfast. Thanks! She spent the day [...]

Running around like a madman after getting up early so I can make the 1:40pm ferry from Anacortes.
First to the Rose Street House to pick up the mail and the CD-ROM with Kristina’s invitation for her March show at Antioch University, Seattle. Copy the file, then off to Kristina’s house to give back the disc, [...]

Computer work in the morning, work on the Rose Street House in the afternoon.
Kristina stopped by for a business meeting, and got repeatedly lost….South Park isn’t the easiest place to get to unless you know the way, or follow directions to the “T”. A couple of hours later Jill stopped by just as I was [...]

Not as much sleeping in this morning. I have to get all the clothes packed, the bottles recycled, and the cabin cleaned out by noon.
Working more today since as the Queen Registrar we have to meet and settle up the bill, which means rounding up WhiteWater and RiverSong (who has the check book). But since [...]

Amazing how routines are easily established.
Coffee, Computer, Lunch, Soak, Nap, Cocktails, Dinner, Show, Cocktails, Sleep.
A meltdown last night… napped out of site of most, trying to get back to bliss.
Soon, the real world will be coming back. But not now.

What a rare treat. A quiet space in Jamshed’s Java Jive… no one here, but a thermos of coffee. Time to catch up on not only the mail, but the blog as well.
BBHa has offered a massage this afternoon — he is working on the other Queen Registar as we speak. It is his “offer [...]

I seem to be getting into this wonderful routine…. sleeping until 9:00 or 10:00, then going over to Jamshed’s cabin (a faerie who came to a gathering 19 years ago and didn’t leave) for coffee, conversation, and ethernet. My excuse is that I need to check for any last minute cancellations. Thinking that excuse won’t [...]

Greetings from Breitenbush Hot Springs. In theory there is no internet or cell-phone access out here, but I know the secrets to get at least internet access. And coffee. At the same time.
Having arrived a day before the gathering, there is a little more time to chill out before the hoards arrive this afternoon. Most [...]

First stop, Mark Whitaker’s to look at Black Locust for the kitchen counters.
Second stop, Scotty’s to drop off printing equipment.
Third stop, the Home Depot in Tigard for kitchen cabinets (will delay until Monday if I’m running late)
Fourth stop, Breitenbush Hot Springs, and checking into cabin A-1 before dark and before dinner.

Today it the drive from Seattle to Surfside, with a stop in South Park to put the garbage out and measuring for some cabinets.
Drive went well, with the laptop set up to get interent service so I could listen to KPLU while having the mapping software telling me directions, all through the van speakers with [...]

I forgot to put this in the blog — several days ago I stopped by to see how the construction was coming on Kassie and Mark’s Townhouse Project in Interbay that I was interested in until the price skyrocketed. Here is the latest construction photo. Looking good!

Trim work today, dinner with Jeff in the evening. [...]

Computer work in the morning, then off to see what needed to be done on the new house. Time to clean up the two bedrooms, get the paint drop clothes out, reinstall the door hardware, install new light fixtures, to and buy (yet, again) more paint, buy trim, paint trim for installation tomorrow.
Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll [...]

Well, I guess ex-jockey’s aren’t cowboys, and I doubt he’ll let me ride him, but having dinner with Adam in the Founder’s Room before the Symphony tonight.
But first there is the stop at Boeing Surplus to find a nice pull handle for the attic stairs — something labelled like “Remove Before Flight” — anything will [...]

11am boat off the island was the plan — but stayed up all night to get the directory done for the gathering at Breitenbush so I don’t have to come back to the island for Sunday/Monday night …. due to play poker in Oly tonight, and hopefully show the house in Oly, that would be [...]