Uncle Markie out and about.
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Run around, run around. Costco (gas and car wash) Post Office Cleaners Wonderful’s place Grocery Outlet Jimmie’s Place Liquor store (2 first one had a line 20 people deep at both registers) Swanda’s Place New Year’s Eve festivities at Swanda’s with a dinner of prosciutto wrapped scallops and lamb steaks with salad and the [...]
The cold snap is in full bloom as they say. Really noticed it when I went out to lunch with a guy from the Evergreen Foundation office always nice to get a free lunch from your Alma Mater. I’m surprised he didn’t ask me why I and my father haven’t done our contribution this year [...]
Nice to wake up in my own bed. Nice to have had cocktails with Swanda after posting yesterday’s blog early so that my Amtrak attendant could read it before she headed back to Los Angeles this morning. Nice to have plans for New Year’s Eve at Swanda’s to watch the ball drop no, not [...]
As a result of the various blog and FaceBook posts, friends and relatives have been asking me about my thoughts about long-distance train travel. This year I will have done 50,000+ flight miles, mostly on Alaska Airlines. But yet, this will be the 3rd or 4th (maybe 5th) train trip, though certainly the longest of [...]
Damn I hate that Amtrak LA connection. When the dining car breakfast service runs from 5-6am that’s just not good. Thank you Rashid for bringing me breakfast in the cabin, and thank you to the rest of the sleeper car folks for not being in the shower when I needed it. Before I forget here [...]
Sleeping in, no Christmas rush to appease the children and still, it was 8:30 when I drug my ass to get coffee in the kitchen. Just for the record, I believe Aunt Nancy slept in until about 11 this morning across the way. Breakfast: Slabs of beef from yesterday. Lunch: Slabs of beef between two [...]
Breakfast with the Ortiz gang across the scrub followed by present unwrapping. Then a nap. Then start work on the Christmas Dinner. Before: After: A fun time for all, but I’m ready for tomorrow’s train back to Seattle. [? ? ?]
Wow. Out of bed at 8:30 damn sun. Not used to that in Seattle. Before: After: WOW both photos suck. I must point out that gifts from “The Colonels” show up in both photos the top, the live rosemary bush they sent to my parents, and below, the two license plates shey sent [...]
So nice to wake up in the land of the conical fireplace, all toasty and warm. Oh fluffy bed, I do love you so. Breakfast at LotaBurger. Just a cheeseburger, no fries, no drink. Dad at 11 for a run to Trader Joe’s to stock up on cheap liquor for both the return trip and [...]
A joy in my house me, sleeping in until ten in the morning. Damn that king-size bed is comfortable. A lazy morning of working on a request (like a term paper) from the Office of Development from Evergreen for bio stuff for their annual donor report. Email me if you want copies of the question/answer [...]
It’s a good thing that I don’t give a rat’s ass about all this travel grief roll with the flow. Here is the score card for today: Wake-up call came on time: +1 Hot breakfast provided by hotel: +1 Shuttle available to go to train station rather than airport: +1 Evening dinner guest cancelling [...]
United, oh United, why must you be Untied as usual. May the integration with Continental improve your lot in life. The flight was at 10:55, but wait, they’ve changed my flights, it’s now at 12:15pm, but a direct (1-stop) flight. But on checking my bag in oh, that flight is now at 1:15pm, and you’ll [...]
Well, that’s my day in brief. Bye. Kidding. I’ve got a couple of pictures for today’s post: Cleaning out the fridge and making breakfast. Looks better than Ronny Macs. And look the outfit matches the shoes! Dinner tonight with Fluffernutter stir-fry beef, onions, tomaltios, over a bed a rice with a side salad. [...]
Well, I’m afraid this trip was a bust for actually spending any time rolling around in the hay. Today’s excuse: power outage, got up too late for play time before work. At least I know its true as the power went off in the condo as well, but I noticed the blinking clock and [...]
My view: The place I drive by in Astoria that I would love to buy and restore: It was the Finnish Sauna from 1928 with a diesel fired furnace, which I’m assuming is dead. Anyone up for a $249.000 sauna in Astoria. Apartments upstairs. Tempting. http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/14865967/285-W-Marine-Drive-Astoria-OR/ I’ll swing by in the morning to do an [...]
The morning was a blur of packing, posting packages, and generally trying to get out of the house by 2 for the run to Seaside. Had I thought more about it, I would have headed there a little sooner so that I didn’t end up driving the last hour or so in the dark. Damn [...]
After yesterday’s meeting, today was all about running errands to pick up more prototyping supplies with a little side trip to get the oil changed. The result: 3 more prototypes completed, along with a possibility for another piece of the puzzle. Sorry that I’m being so vague, but it’s hard to have folks sign an [...]
Up at 7, out of bed more like 7:45am when the bladder would hold no longer (thank you for sharing). I was on the road after a round of hugs by 8:30, or was it 8:45am, it was early, I’d only had two cups of coffee. Decisions, decisions. Kingston, Bainbridge Island, or drive around through [...]
Up and out of the condo at 8:15, yes, it took an alarm clock to manage that. Destination, lovely Twilight driven Forks, Washington. Why? To get the zipper installed on my Wolf & Mink jacket. And silly me, I forgot to take a photo, but here is one from the archive before the zipper: With [...]
This is what today looked like: Needless to say, I haven’t even left the condo. Which leave me time to spend catching up on all the email links I’ve been sent over the last couple of week. One that I set aside for reading is a lovely article titled How To Travel Around The World [...]
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