UMTravels

This morning about noon I closed registration to the gathering by turning off the PayPal link page, redoing the web site, and sending out announcements on the NWRadFae, FaceBook, BushFaerie lists. And then I got the daily mail (after a run to Jimmies to drop off printed paperwork and an example of “extreme wine sampling”) [...]

No, it’s not that hot in Seattle, I’m talking about a Sunday Roast�— a big old chunk of meat in the oven. A nice article about South Park in the Sunday Seattle Times for any of you interesting in what my neighborhood is like: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2015464442_pacificpsouthpark10.html?cmpid=2628 It is true about it feeling like a multi-ethnic Norman [...]

One of the projects I’m working on is one step closer: Such an appealing (or is that appalling) typeface they use. Other than that, not much other news than the lawn mower is dead, dead, dead: Looks at Lowes and HomoDepot — $199 for the cheapest electric. $135 on Amazon with free 2-day shipping�— or [...]

My day was spent wrestling with paper: Business Plans Operating Agreement Limited Liability Forms IRA Pass-Through Forms The nice thing: we are pretty much done with them! And I was working on a possible logo: It’s still a work in progress and needless to say, fixing the lawn mower got put off another day. Dinner [...]

My Inbox this morning brought a good deal. $129 round-trip (including taxes!) Seattle to San Francisco. I even got as far as choosing dates and seats before I pulled the plug. I’ll be seeing Mark and Onyx in mid-August at the gathering, and am hoping that by early September I’m booked with work because later [...]

It was a day of details, details, details, and leftover chicken for two out of three meals. Lots of work on business plans, operating agreements, logo work, culminating in a two-hour late afternoon meeting with a potential third partner. Add an evening sitting in front of the computer and sorting through forms finds the August [...]

With the Canadian and US birthdays over, it’s time to get back to the grind stone and finish up a business plan and logo for on on-going project that while not lining my pocket at the moment, it should going forward. It’s a marvelously sunny week here in Seattle. What a rarity. It’s enough to [...]

Spent a good chunk of the day working on a business plan after starting to mow the lawn, only to have the lawn mower crap out (again). Looks like it’s time the take it apart and re-solder the wire that goes to one of the brushes. But not today. Here is a quick little tour [...]

Another day of dealing with the deck. Nothing like a bunch of people coming over to get you off your butt and onto the lift. By noon the table was built: Then a run to Homo Depot to Grocery Outlet to get a hammock for the deck for when it’s just me in the loft. [...]

Folly according to Wikipedia: In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but either suggesting by its appearance some other purpose, or merely so extravagant that it transcends the normal range of garden ornaments or other class of building to which it belongs. In the original use of the word, these buildings [...]

Besides doing the hour or so of registration work, with company coming on Monday it’s time to get the “Dining Platform” a little closer to finished. And other paperwork related to loan refinancing (still haven’t heard back from weatherization) . So when all else is done, work on the house projects because company is coming [...]