UMTravels

What a wonderful change from planning, planning, planning. Take it as it comes. Sleep until coffee calls. Coffee until breakfast calls. Errands until cocktail hour calls. Errands? Honey for mead — Costco. And while we are there, let’s pick up champagne (Moet White Star) for dinner and Maker’s Mark to replace what I’ve been drinking. […]

Nothing like a little roll in the hay to send you off into vacation land — with less sleep than I’d like. This evenings report is from the charming basement piet a whatever (apartment in a city that you don’t consider home) of Mark and Onyx though only Onyx is in attendance as Mark is […]

Well — the contract is done with Events and Adventures, except for a couple of hours next week with some niggling details. The final bill is in the mail. The working files CD is in the mail. The thank you notes are in the mail. Yes, Swanda trained me well about those “bread and butter” […]

So, in addition to collecting Coke Rewards points so that I can subscribe everybody in my universe to Popular Mechanics, I’ve been playing the Subway Scrabble game. You get a piece with every sandwich (or two if you do what I do and have them wrap a foot-long as two sixes), and soda (two if […]

I took this picture yesterday before I got a call that said I’d “won” some drawing at the RV show last week. Something about a 2-year free campground membership which includes a “presentation” and a $50 Gift Card — sounds like the campground version of WorldMark. And speaking of WorldMark, here is the picture of […]

It’s been a nice run, the work for Events and Adventures — but all things come to an end (though may pick up again in January). How can you tell it’s ending (Friday is the last day)? I’ve booked three trips out of town: San Francisco this weekend ($220.99) Chico next weekend ($215.50) New Orleans […]

After taking off the weekend from billing hours, back to the grind (well, as much of a grind as 4-5 hours of billing a day can be). Today is a mix of cleaning up the Membership Directory for Events and Adventures and working on a WordPress site that they can keep updated. Who knows, maybe […]

With Wonderful having a Re-Entry Party for the faeries this evening I thought it might be nice to buy him a bar-b-que as a house warming present. Should be the season when they put them on sale. Not at Home Depot (yet), and not on good enough sale at Lowes (yet). At least at Lowes […]

So, from today’s Wall Street Journal, a tiny mention about an airline that still has regularly scheduled service in a DC-3 — yes, a DC-3. Now, the down-side… it goes six times a week between Yellowknife and Hays River (that would be across Great Slave Lake to the south). $232 round-trip for the Saturday run […]

So — today, in addition to getting some billable hours in, I’ll be visiting the Northwest RV show to see if I can find a dealer to either: take Bob (the Bluebird Wanderlodge) on consignment, or take Bob in as trade on a Class B or maybe C rig. Wish me luck — so much […]

What a sweet heart Jonathan is — he brought me good (i.e. not WorldMark) black coffee and a cinnamon roll when he came back from moving his car this morning. I crawled into their (Jonathan and Adam) bed for a little bit, before retiring to the couch to watch a sport that I didnt’ even […]

Morning marketing meeting at Events and Adventures in the morning. Then back to the house for a little more work. Ordered the Renewal Postcards from Adco down in Florida. Those should arrive on the 1st of September — the day after my contract ends. The afternoon was spent shopping. That’s where the “$120 Is The […]

A day full of billable hours getting animated GIFs out the door for approval and trying to get things wrapped up for Events and Adventures by the end of the month when my contract ends. There is some talk about it picking back up in January — time will tell. Need to finish: Banner Ads […]

In the category of changing dentists I have the following observations: Breaking up is hard to do. You tend to form bonds with your dentist. Scare tactics (your teeth are going to fall out) don’t really work. I’m not willing to pay for somebody elses view — I’m not even willing to pay for my […]

How lovely it is to wake up in my own bed, and brew my own coffee. And how nice to have the peace and quiet after a week of constantly being around humanoids. I love Melba’s comment about yesterday’s photo post — saying it looked like somebody just spilled a pina colada on my lap. […]

To quote Jack Nicholson… “I’m Backkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!” And don’t I look calm. Wow, a week without the “Daily Show”. And yes, I did actually have a connection to the zeroes and ones (that’s the Internet in non-geek speak). Logged on Wednesday, but only because I was doing a “mercy log-on” for a Minnesota faerie that spaced […]

What a beautiful day for a drive. Temperatures in the 70’s, top down, and only one construction delay. Now if I’d only gotten a picture of me driving with the lamb’s head hat on — not only keeps my head from burning, but my ears from burning and gets LOTS of smiles and thumbs up […]

Don’t you just love a titillating teaser tag-line? Well — the wild goose chase was our run one of my brother Jon’s Coos Watershed Association site on the 250,000 acre Weyerhaeuser timber farm near here. We got within about 15 miles of the project when we found the security guard telling us that they rest […]

Well, technically not Coos Bay but Charleston. But few people know where Charleston is. After hitting the road at 10am, rolled into Charleston at a little before five — cocktail hour! That would be where the scotch came in. The oysters were two dozen medium size (it makes me wonder how big the large ones are) […]

At 2pm I’m on the road for a little Northwest holiday and still feeling the effects of being up until 4am. Stops: Tonight, Olympia for poker with the boys Saturday and Sunday, Coos Bay with my brother and sis-in-law Monday to the following Sunday, Breitenbush Hot Springs Following Monday, back home for a dentist appointment […]