UMTravels

A leisurely morning in the condo with eggs, bacon and toast for breakfast before heading back to Seattle via Bainbridge Island. Here is a great shot of me on the ferry with the skyline in the gloomy background: Yeah ¯ showing Fernando the truly grey Seattle summers. After an afternoon snack at the taco wagon [...]

Nice to sleep in a bit. We don’t have to leave for Discovery Bay until early afternoon, so the morning is of conference calls and breakfast. Unfortunately both happened at the same time, but when Boltive calls, Uncle Markie answers. Scramble eggs and toast for breakfast and lunch was a fast food drive-through in lovely [...]

Company is coming and the house is a mess. Stuff stacked everywhere. Not the best time to have a � hour commitment each day to 3M for a customer panel on structural adhesives. Oh well, the things I do for Visa Gift Cards. Groceries to buy, liquor to stock, stacks to clean up, blogs to [...]

A full day of work, most of it unpaid unfortunately. Most of the day was given over to getting the Summer Gathering ducks in a row with deciding on Access or to just modify the current Excel files. I went with modifying the current mailing list spreadsheet to include summer gathering financial information. Means only [...]

Woke up to a lovely hack… not a cold, but I think minorly dripping sinuses and slowing lodging in my lungs. The morning phone calls sounded like I was a whiskey and cigarette laced night club singer and I can only claim the whiskey soaked part. Those calls? Things like ordering a new dryer handle [...]

Oh the joys of fickle houseguests. Originally it was Sunday night just for the night. Then it was Saturday and Sunday nights. Then, relative not arriving until Tuesday so we are up to three nights. All is good. Then other relative wants to see him and get him to mow her lawn which is what [...]

Out of the house at 11:30 for a day of driving, luckily the sun is out and the top is down. Driving in a fairly large circle to/from Seaside, Oregon to put up a friend and do a little antiquing on the way down since I have time to kill since he doesn’t get off [...]

And early breakfast with Jameson and the babe�— 8:15am, which is good because I have a flight back to Seattle this afternoon. Out of the condo at 11 with a stop in Carson City for lunch, and to do the train museum located there, but somehow when I got to the parking lot I’d lost [...]

Ah, the ever changing Tahoe weather. The sun is out but in the morning there is occasional snow flurry. I spent the day billing clients, dealing with Seattle public utilities, on tech support with Alaska to get my $300 credit deposited in my account, shopping for a vegetarian entr� for Jameson’s lady friend, and most [...]

Nice to catch up on some sleep, but feeling sorry for Jameson who needs to be out of the condo by 8:15 every morning. Today the plan is to wander down to California, which is about 8 miles away, and all downhill. Checked out a bunch of thrift shops with no luck, but did swing [...]