UMTravels

It may be a late morning flight but I’m still feeling knackered. Why, why, why do I have dinner parties the night before flying. Apparently I just don’t learn. No line at security and I’m from curb to Board Room in fifteen minutes, ten of which is walking. Might be a record. Easy flight down […]

So, if I’m not billing hours, I should be banging nails or doing electrical work. Today, it’s both banging nails (got the trim done on the outdoor kitchen) and doing electrical (new lights, an outlet). Here is the end result… Man, that looks good in the photo! And there is even an outlet to plug […]

The morning was work, work, work. The afternoon was work and dealing with a worker working on the outdoor kitchen and other little projects. Handy worker, Stewie, from automotive repairs (earlier this week) to finishing the fence work and putting the ceiling into the outdoor kitchen (though it still needs to be trimmed out): It […]

After a day of little bits of everything (work, play, errands), it was time to entertain friends this evening. The line up was Helene and Swanda — Jonathan was a no-show. I love my friends — Swanda shows up with a couple of bottles of wine — Helene showed up with most of the meat […]

Well, I’ve done it again. Gone and booked some more travel. But before I give you the latest, I should tell you what is already on the books: February 28-March 3rd, Bay Area, Visit the boys and do some scouting for E&A March 21-March 23rd, Bay Area, Visit the boys, make dinner for Alicia who […]

Long day in the billing area — 6.5 hours. Between trips to the Eastside to order renewal postcards and decrapify Fluffernutters’s computer and my house to start the leg work for the Bay Area trip to look at possible office space. And boy do I have a few places to look at:   All the […]

Last week I got a note from my mother continuing a discussion started at Christmas when I was there, but never finished. It started when we were headed to Trader Joes for last minute items (and booze for me). There was ice and snow on the ground and her comment when something like “If I […]

Another beautiful day in Seattle — for the run to Swanda’s to pull mail (unnecessary) and Home Depot (close to unnecessary) it was TOP DOWN. A slow morning of drinking coffee and reading the paper before actually getting down to business. The first valance went in easily (after removing the medicine cabinet and putting it […]

Well, other than a little billable hours, today has been all about valances. Definition:   Noun S: (n) cornice, valance, valance board, pelmet (a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing)   When I installed new curtains in SOB (Son of Bob, my RV) it quickly became obvious that they really needed valances — 4.5″ […]

It is so nice to drive to the eastside with the top down, even if I am freezing my butt off in the morning. Odd marketing meeting this morning with Barb in Dallas and Swanda in Minneapolis, and the owner nowhere to be found. Must have been a family crisis since that’s about all that […]

It is a rare thing to have a sunny day in Seattle in the winter. And how nice that I dropped the top on a check run to the apartment. I really do like it better with the top down. Brother Jon is talking about joining me for the rag-top trip to Santa Fe for […]

Weird day. Running around cleaning the house, cleaning up the mail (email) box, billing hours, getting ready for the evening date. The date? A Friend that I’d lost track of for half a dozen years. It could have gone better. Bad sex, good dinner (steak, baked potatoes, salad, and apparently too much wine), and then […]

I think is the act of traveling – feeling movement in my body – that I care more about than the destination. It’s a thought that I keep coming back to. Maybe I should have been a pilot, a train engineer, or a bus driver. The plan is to leave after lunch today, with Mark […]

Apologies for not getting these entries posted until my return to civilization. My usual internet connection here in the woods has been restricted. Yesterday we learned the reason…. With the community’s internet coming from both a satellite up and a satellite downlink, they have very limited bandwidth. Seems that many of the community have addictions […]

Out of the cabin for breakfast. Back to the cabin to finish one Michael McGarrity novel and start another. No nap this boy today. Then lunch, and back to the cabin. Maybe tomorrow. And as usual, the boys show up at 4pm to start breaking all the no booze and no animal flesh rules. I’d […]

What a totally lazy day. Up at a little before 8, head down to the lodge for breakfast, come back to the cabin for a nap, get up for lunch, head down to the lodge, eat, head back to the cabin to read.I did spend part of the day trying to get an internet connection […]

Luckily the conference call was a short one – but it was still 11:30 when we sat down to eat breakfast with a noon check-out. The boys were celebrating their vacation by sleeping in until my conference call was done. A relaxed drive after hurriedly packing to get out of the apartment. By Salem, Oregon […]

It’s been a couple of days since we’ve had a good photo posted here in blogland…. so here is today’s pic, actually from last night: Life imitates art, if you can call that art. Conference call from 10:30-11:30 while the boys make breakfast for us all, then at noon it’s out of her and off […]

Oh, the pain of an early morning after entertaining. Alarm at 7am — the theory is out of the house at 8am to drop off the computer for MB’s son in Tacoma, then to pick up friends at the airport — the Portland Airport. The reality of this morning was more like 8:30am with the […]

Work. Errands. Work. Wiring. Baking. Wiring. Grilling. Pasta Making. The TV is installed and wired in in the back. The middle monitor is wired in — it will be mounted in a panel which I have yet to make. The HDTV converter box is in and wired to all the monitors, including the one in […]