Uncle Markie out and about.
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So — after a day of serious driving — that would be 8 hours…. I arrive in Eureka, CA — 2 gas stops, one pee brake (maybe I should bring bid bottles!) — with sandwiches and sodas in the cooler by my side. Purchased a new 410 watt inverter (1000 watts peak) at Fry’s — [...]
Well — yesterday I could check my mail once I left the forest…. it’s not looking good for today. Here is the coverage map for the trip through Oregon and into California. Good God, I hope Clear Lake (Nice, CA) has coverage since I need to get some work done. Here is the hopeful — [...]
Greetings from Portland. Arrived to find that a BBQ is scheduled in an hour — good thing I brought and onion and garlic for the potato salad, crackers for snacks, and red wine (non-river-boxed-wine)! Spent the drive down here going through Mount Rainier National Park (another $15 use on my Parks Pass — bringing my [...]
Greetings from Olympia. Recap of yesterday…. was trying to leave at 2. Looked closer to 3, when hardware issues raised their ugly head. The inverter didn’t have enough juice to power the power-hungry “RoadKill” laptop with a splitter in place. So, no signal booster, no audio from laptop to car stereo, but at least it [...]
It’s departure day, and boy am I not ready. The concept of out of here at 2pm is looking bad. So far today I’ve bound the travel books for this trip and Hawaii one and two, fitted the inverter into the van which meant tearing out the ashtray (should have done that days ago!), got [...]
Errands and more… Got the sound card working in RoadKill, the funky laptop I bought from Curtis for the car. MoonSong in the morning, Fry’s in the afternoon for power supply for dead laptop (didn’t help), new powered USB hub — and the old one finally started to work, and a 3-way cigarette lighter adapter [...]
Well, the power supply brick in my new laptop is dead, dead, dead — so went to Radio Shack to source a replacement — cheapest was $85 (and the nicest was $120 — which has cords for car and airplane as well). Think I’ll head to Fry’s tomorrow and see what they have and check [...]
New eaves are 95% done. Caulking tomorrow. And the door for the art/wine closet in the garage — on today’s HomoDepot run. Trying to debug the equipment for the month long roadtrip — I have photos, of the laptop mount. One probem down. So, here are the photos (4): Andwith the computer mounted… [...]
Woke up at leisure — left the house at 8:30am to catch the ferry. Of chance it would be the 8:55am, missed it by half a dozen cars, but was already expecting the 10am ferry. Good trip to the island. Great dinner with Lynne, Sue, and Don — makes me almost want to keep the [...]
Puttered around the house until it was time to leave for the island (11:30am). Did get a reservation for the night of October 29th made for an airport hotel in Honolulu at the tail end of Hawaii Trip Number One. Heave traffic through the mid-section of the city, but then it thinned out — was [...]
Scrambled eggs with leftover steak for breakfast — and I didn’t have to go to the garage to cook them. The stove is working. Picture below is with three burners going. Good thing I had the fan on high. So — The Great Art Party was a success last night — loved the orange round [...]
MoonSong working on the eaves until noon when he needs to go deal with getting his mother out of the hospital and back to Centralia. Won’t be that many years until I need to be doing things like that, but not with his mother. Stove guy due at 10am to do the final piece of [...]
Well, the eaves are mostly done, time to put the rest of the siding on — then come a a couple of runs of new shingles to keep it all sealed up until we can do the roof next spring. Just ran out of time this summer. And I’m gone most of the fall. Here’s [...]
Well — today is the day to deal with all things airline and travel. Late last night I got an email from www.iflygo.comannouncing a $9 each way inter-island (Hawaii) 24-hour Fare War (they said Sale). That got me into Hawaii planning mode again — booked my first weeks trip inter-island (HNL to Maui to HNL) [...]
Well, got the kids (Julian and Natalie) off to the airport this morning at 6:15am for their 8:30am flight — and came home and went back to bed. Got woken up again by MoonSong delaying work for a day due to the rain. Yesterday’s progress report. Most of the catalogs printed Dinner for 4 (Jill [...]
Hit the ground running. Got a lovely call from Susan apologizing for not saying goodbye when she was about the heat stroke out — no worries. I don’t want people dying on the job. Barely enough coffee to make a pot — will be showered and shaved by the time MoonSong gets here for more [...]
Well — the merger of USAir and America West has some interesting combination effects. Tatty hubs in need of renovation (USAir). Plastic glasses (of the large 6oz variety — really LARGE for a glass of wine) and plastic silverware in First Class (America West). They still use the china from USAir — but they don’t [...]
So, today is a travel day. First stop — the warehouse for 50 bags for the Great Art Party — unprinted, I’ll print a flyer and put it in the bag. Not the best solution, but the cheapest and easiest. Second stop — a huge breakfast buffet. Here is what I sampled: Scrambled Eggs Biscuits [...]
So up in the morning early and off to Kissin Cuzins on the motorcycle. Weather looks good so far. At breakfast — it DUMPS rain, while we are eating… and then, we are done with breakfast, and nothing coming down. Odd. Finish loading the trailer and off to GeckoFest to set up. Two hours to [...]
Libra (Sept 23 to Oct.22)In the next few years you’ll let go of people, places, and possessions. You will get rid of what is no longer relevant. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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