UMTravels

What can we say — the title says it all as to the plans for the day. Work until 1 or 2. Drive to Olympia. Prepare a small feast for four (still unknown as to the other two besides Curt and I at this point), then poker. The work is outlining the concept of a [...]

It’s always just one more piece of information — in this case, something that could be taken care of via an email to my bank. It seems that they couldn’t close out my home equity line of credit (even though there was now NOTHING to secure it) without my authorization. The funny part is that [...]

Well, at 2:45pm this afternoon I got a call from Lanny Carver of Coldwell Banker at Friday Harbor with the news. I no longer own a church. This not to say that the money is in the bank (trust me, I checked), but it should be by the end of the week since I gave [...]

Show me the money, that’s what I’m saying these days. Worked in the morning then did a mid-day run to the east-side to put a nice consulting check in the bank, wash the car, shop at Trader Joes. More work in the afternoon — interupted by an email from the closing agent. My bank needs [...]

Documents arrived at the closing agent. Billable hours. Dinner with Swanda… when the phone rings. Dad. OK — so it isn’t the best picture — he looks a little grumpy in this shot, but it’s from last Christmas so it’s recent. So — I’m over at Swanda’s for dinner when I got a call from [...]

I’m not sure I was expecting to get this far along with the “getting ready for the garage sale” process. Things happen when you least expect them. Like Wonderful coming by to pick out artwork for The Great Art Party 2008. Well, to get to the art closet, I basically had to unload the trailer [...]

Phone rings at 10am — I am in an Ambian fog since I didn’t want to toss and turn after getting to bed at 2am. It’s the postman — isn’t he supposed to knock? He’s at the apartment and I’m not. I forget I can buzz him in…. and the office doesn’t open until 10am [...]

On the day of our countries anniversary, a little commentary about the “State of the White Pages”. I started noticing this trend last year — suddenly, the White Pages were two thirds the size of the Yellow Pages. Yesterday I got new Qwest phone books — amazing since I don’t have a landline, nor do [...]

Yesterday I got this from Lanny, my real estate broker: The clients have been approved, and the paper work is in progress. I will find out when they will be done for you to sign. Let me know your schedule and we can then figure how to get the papers to you. Our closing is [...]

Spent the tail end of last night futzing around with my phone (Treo 650 that has already come back from dead once or twice). I think it might finally be dead — and no time for Graf to fix — and no time with the 4th of July on Friday to get a replacement shipped [...]

Headed down three paths for work, gathering logos, designing email signatures, standardizing paperwork, looking into third party document storage, and tweaking the organizational and members website look and feel — hey wait — that’s more than three paths. Guess I should say, a little of this, and a little of that. Back in the trenches [...]