UMTravels

If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium, or is it Bellevue, in my case. Bookings and bookings that I’m thinking about: Booked: November 18-20 in Vancouver, BC. A little work, much more play. Thinking About: December 4-7 in Juneau, Alaska visiting Monica and Alan and the kids — thinking of flying up 1st, and on [...]

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WTF — Sunday morning in the city. Check the email, breakfast, think about the day to come. Day to come: Drive to Olympia Shopping at Safeway for the last ingredients for dinner Dinner with Dwight, Nikki, Curt Eat Guests leave Drink more Chat on cell phone with Dr. Graf about the dead computer and see [...]

First lets talk about the phrase SoDo — which stands for South of Dome which no longer stands — it’s now Qwest Field even though we are still paying off the dome and they recycled the concrete from the dome into the new stadium. Why three trips? Trip One: to pick up software/hardware/magazines at Swanda’s [...]

Up early today — 9am. A little snacking around, a little time in the sun, and all packed up and out the door at 11:30 and off to Downtown Disney for a little shopping and lunch. From the Lego store… Or from the Irish restaurant where we had lunch: Next stop was the airport. Can [...]

I could easily get spoiled by this schedule — the only thing missing is Rich’s Bloody Marys in the morning. Bacon plus an egg scramble this morning — though we didn’t quite get through it all… Work gets done between bits of this that and the other — i.e. the computer is on and I’m [...]

I’m getting into a bad habits here in Florida…. I’ve been sleeping in until 10am. Of course, that’s 7am Seattle time so that would mean that I’m getting up earlier than normal. Brunch this morning (that’s what you get if you sleep until 10) was a scramble of Bermuda onion, mushrooms, chicken thigh, eggs and [...]

It’s lovely to get out of bed at a little before 10am and realize that you still have 3.5 hours until your standard Tuesday morning marketing meeting.No need to prepare the night before. More time to tick things off your “to-do” list. Brunch was pan-fried potatoes and bacon, apples with peanut butter, questionable coffee made [...]

God I hate morning flights – I think I’ve gotten spoiled with the mid-day flights to Oakland. Up at 5. Out of the house at 6 with Raf driving me to the airport (thanks Raf), through security and in the Board Room by 6:30 for my 8:45 flight. Why so early — well, it’s me, [...]

Up early — blame daylight savings time. Things to clean, things to put away, stuff to do… oh, like drive to Olympia and pick up my old inflatable hot tub (and a PT 4×4). It was good to see Mel and actually spend some time with her soon to be husband (I’m providing the honeymoon [...]