UMTravels

Quickly slipping into vacation mode. Breakfast around eleven, and then off to the hot tub with the morning bloody mary. Nap in the afternoon, and then time to work on dinner. A turkey (minus wings and legs), boiled parsley potatoes, salad, bread, and a lovely gravy that Rich whipped up. Somehow I’ve never been able [...]

It only took Rich 8 phone calls to my cell phone and my Manhattan number to get me up and out the door to drive back to Seattle, and finish packing for a week in Whistler. I’ve started travelling with a brown trimline phone. The little box plugged into the computer is a MagicJack. For [...]

Headed to Olympia today. First stop, Safeway for groceries for tonight pre-poker dinner with Curt, Rich and a certain legislator who shall remain nameless. Second stop, The Evergreen State College to drop off the scholarship applications. Every time I visit the campus waves of lust roll over me. Good thing I don’t work out there. [...]

Lots of running around today. To the apartment to pick up a package of phone parts To Amtrak to redeem a $50 voucher on a round-trip to Portland next month To the�Musuem of Flight for an exhibit of flight uniforms I had planned to go to two other art openings in Pioneer Square but ran [...]

Work during the day along with a little running around. I should really get serious about packing for Canada, but it just isn’t happening. Off to the airport to meet Solus’ 6pm arrival from Iceland. He arrived looking a little dazed, and not from drink. From a long flight and a bit of emotional turmoil. [...]

So, last Thursday (the 31st of March) I stumbled across this tidbit in the South Park Yahoo Group posting: Want to make $16 an hour sitting on a fake plane in Boeing Field for Wed Mar�30,�2011 9:18�am (PDT) It doesn’t sound fun to me, honestly, but it does sound like easy work. Consider it pay-back [...]

Out of the house before 6 to get Jameson to the airport. Guess who went back to bed until 9 upon his return to the house? And speaking of houses. I’ve noticed a bunch more “For Sale” signs popping up in the neighborhood, including one on the next block that belongs to Dorothy who used [...]

Nice to have company. But nice to have a little down time as well. Jameson was off to lunch with friends from Evergreen at Both Ways Cafe in Columbia City. I’d never heard of it, but it gets good reviews. Might have to check it out, but not on the weekend for bunch. Dinner tonight [...]

Ah, the joys of being able to sleep in and have coffee delivered bedside. Spent the morning reading scholarship applications. It never fails to amaze me the number of people who don’t read the list of requirements. Usually it is the portfolio that is strangely missing. Mark Stephen Souder Scholarship for Information Dissemination Offered to [...]

Up at 8, grudgingly, breakfast at 9, on the road by 9:30am. Destination Olympia. Work of repairing the carport of his rental for Jameson, work on two chickens for dinner for me. Doesn’t look fun for him with the rain. On the way back from dropping him off on the Westside to borrow a friends [...]