UMTravels

The list� Kmart for Hawaiian Shirts Maybe Costco, too (all my Hawaiian shirts were tattered and I’ve left them behind over the years) Discount Fabric Warehouse (multiple coupons) Haleakala National Park ($10 entrance, but I have “the card”� with Yellowstone at $25 and Craters of the Moon at $8, so far, recovered $43 out of [...]

Up at 5:30, by 6:30am I’m in the Board Room after parking at the airport � early flight out, late return flight on Friday. Got onto the island a little after 11am� and a long walk to the rental car counter � had I known I would have taken the “group” door which would have [...]

If I wasn’t sore and beat up from yesterday’s construction projects, moving half a yard of crushed gravel didn’t help. And in a humorous act of nature � here is a close-up of a couple of larger chunks of gravel that rolled off the pile� I kid you not, that’s how they landed. Now I [...]

It’s a good thing I don’t have any major clients at the moment � with the list of projects still needing to be done around the house. Today’s project: Using the bamboo flooring from the old trap door lid to finish the rest of the laundry room floor and add a drain (the black square [...]

Projects I thought about today: Fixing the fan in the bathroom (which really means plowing into the bathroom wall to add a switch for the fan separate from the light switch and adding GFI outlet � talk about project creep � might farm that one out to MoonSong since I hate working up in all [...]

Started the day late by laying in bed� it was good until I went to find the Wall Street Journal which was gone. Still working through the list of chores � got the locks rekeyed to just one for dead-bolts, door handles, and garage handles. MoonSong has a key, and I have one waiting for [...]

Lots of odd things going on today. I got the house rewired with Skype phones in the kitchen, living room and office. In the process, compared the guts of my two pay phones: The one from the Montana trip has a serious computer inside that doesn’t lend itself to easy rewiring for home use, assuming [...]

I don’t know what got me charged up today but it should happen more often. After the morning taking care of the few work details it was off to the Eastside to deposit a couple of checks (one WEEKS late), groceries, Lowes for drill bits, the apartment to drop off magazines and a photo for [...]

Had the so-so continental breakfast this morning at the motel. Got on the road around 9:30ish for a leisurely drive back to Berkeley� no traffic screw-up’s like the last time I came back from Santa Cruz (mid-December). For some off reason I wasn’t able to find a Santa Cruz postcard � usually I can just [...]

Got out of Berkeley around noon, and was checked in and texting CruzDude by 2. No time before his 3:30-12:00 shift, so we will get together after work. Staying at the Ramada Limited for like $60 with tax. Not bad, fridge, microwave, soundproof side-to-side (though not from the sidewalk, but it wasn’t noisy after 10), [...]