UMTravels

Started the morning too early — with a 9am appointment at Havlick’s Auto Rebuild so see what the bill for the damage will be from the Seaside vandalism. I know what my portion will be. That’s $120. But the total bill? Try $1121.89 — and that doesn’t even fix the parking lot ding in the [...]

�Taxes ready for Linda on the 24th. Appointment for the BMW scheduled for tomorrow at 9am for the estimate and when it can get done. Curtis for dinner on Wednesday after the dentist in the morning and bank in the afternoon, Graf for dinner on Thursday, no poker this week on Friday because Curt is [...]

Well — yesterday got interrupted by an unexpected Manhattan drinking date, which also required cleaning up the rest of the house and dumping it in the office. It needed to get done, but damn bad timing. So today after grocery shopping it’s back to tax time. The appointment with the accountant is coming up in [...]

Phenomenal dinner last night at Jill’s place up north. Marinated leg of lamb done on the grill, asparagus sauteed on the stove, couscous, a fine Pinot Noir from 1998 (time to drink it) and Jewish Scotch (Ben Nevis — from the distillery tour of a year ago). Now that’s a meal. And speaking of scotch [...]

So — the recap of late yesterday, post post. Ferry to Orcas to complete my full set of WorldMark Washington state resorts — the Resort at Deer Harbor, which isn’t yet a true WorldMark — except in attitude. Talk about friendly staff — that’s what I found (and fresh coffee and homemade chocolate chip cookies). [...]

Progress report from yesterday. Rebar mounted Forms built Drain secured On the next trip up by MoonSong we are ready to pour the footings (finally). Amazing how convoluted projects can get … i.e. the simple turning into the complex, or project creep, whatever you’d like to call it. 11am doctor’s appointment just to get my [...]

�Wow — this just in from Air Transport World�— this would have been a nice delayed flight to be on. Everyone upgraded to business class, and having two flight attendants each — better than the Concorde of years past. American Airlines likely would have gotten credit in the old, pre-global-warming days for operating a nearly [...]

8am comes early when you need to be presentable and caffeinated. “Owner Re-Education” otherwise known as “You Really Need More Credits!” was the early-bird $75 worth of�AMEX cards — and I had to work for it this time — hour and a half. That’s the problem with chatting, but I did get some interesting information [...]

After a lovely drive down to Seaside yesterday on Highway 30 from Longview, even had the top down from Longview to Astoria, we actually got into our unit half an hour early. Here is the lovely Dwight on the viewpoint across the river from Longview. The other two boys didn’t get to the condo until [...]

OK — I really have to get a job, because I should be getting paid for the back-breaking hours at the computer. To continue with yesterday’s subject, improvements to Microsoft Streets and Trips — we have two new spreadsheets to offer. Each spreadsheet has multiple states at sheets so you’ll have to import them separately. [...]

Having an upcoming trip coming up — I finally started to do my research on Safeway fueling stations — figuring that all my ten cent and 3 cent off (when I’ve used all my 10 cent offs) would come in handy now that gas prices are soaring. Short of joining Costco for $50 a year). [...]