UMTravels

Today’s test drive is a 350Z that is sitting up in Everett (45 minutes north) on the Nissan Performance lot. I tried to see this one yesterday, but ran out of time. The result of my test drive: the dog has fleas. WAY too much after-market stereo equipment (some of which impedes the passenger seat) [...]

With PuddyCat’s expensive stay at the spa, it got me thinking about replacements. A search of black convertibles within 50 miles under $20,000 turned up four possibilities (well, more than that, but four that have styling/handling that I can live with). I test drove the Mini today, tomorrow I’ve got an appointment to drive the [...]

Well, with no wheels, no running errands for this boy. Just things around the house. Like things in the garage� Gnarlene is taking a couple of door frame pieces, and about 80 feet of 1×6″ clear fir tongue and grove for his sauna, and I’m building him a sauna door from the slabs of 1″ [...]

Well, some things moved forward, and some things moved out another day. Forward? The scissor lift got delivered. The plan is for a 4′x8′ dining/view platform for behind the deck. By taking off a hundred plus pounds of metal railing, I can keep or increase the load rating (and safety margin). It was truly a [...]

Got the Jag into the shop a little after eight and took the bus back to South Park� funny thing is that the driver didn’t know the new route. It made for some VERY interesting detours. Good thing I’m not the only one who didn’t exactly know where the bus was supposed to go. Travel [...]

Now that everything is back open after the holiday weekend it’s time to deal with all the niggling details that have piled up over the last couple of days: Figure out PayPal address for the place I bought the scissor lift from Find out delivery cost or maybe I should just drive it home at [...]

I don’t know what got into me today (or yesterday) with all the cooking. Today it was all afternoon in the kitchen working on boiling down a ham hock to go with the black eyed peas to go with the collard greens with bacon that Darcie and Jeanne are brining to go with the last [...]

I spent the Fourth mostly by myself� with an hour or two with Swanda desperately trying to get more HDTV channels to come in� a failure. As the all the big 4th of July celebrations, my dislike of crowds, and crappy weather (65 degrees and drizzle) are keeping in inside. So, the recipe for tonight. [...]

I got out of Olympia in time for Car Talk � that makes it a little after 11am. Lunch, read the WSJ, nap. Wake and start projects. Projects: Finish retro Skype phone installation� the five line (6-button) wall phone for the office: And the 9-line (13-button) for the living room: And the yet unwired phones [...]

Does the stream of entertaining never end? Out of the house at noon to run and install a different HDTV antenna at Swandas� out of there at 1:15 � apparently too late on a Friday afternoon that includes the 4th of July to not get stuck in traffic. Travel time to Olympia was 1.5 hours [...]

I like my own bed. That said � the bed, well, I’ll have to try out Swanda’s new bed and compare. If there was ever a moment of saying, I’m glad I don’t have clients at the moment, this would be one of them. Oy. I have spent all day dealing with “stuff”. Like assembling [...]