UMTravels

Well, the lighting is bad, but it’s still a fun little video of The Swanda Birthday Dinner, Part One… All that after a wine tasting at the apartment. Luckily, Wonderful was driving to/from, and all I had to do was pay the valet fee. Happy 50th! [219.0]

With all the Christmas shopping done yesterday, it’s time to wrap, box, bag, mail all the stuff and then start working on the Christmas Cards… I guess there is an upside to less time spent on billable hours. And did I mention the two hundred pounds of gravel… that’s just a start, but it’s all […]

The process started Tuesday night… you have to move out by January 1st… which then just boiled into take $400, pay your phone bill and get a sleezy motel room and leave now. By the time he got home for his last night I’d gone to Home Depot and changed the locks (in case it […]

Off to the marketing meeting in the morning — new schedule has me doing them every other week so no meeting for me while I’m in the Bay Area next week… good? bad? At least I got my check and it’s in the bank… and groceries for tomorrow’s dinner. That dinner would be Swanda’s Birthday […]

My last morning in Juneau was a relaxing morning coffee, some leftovers, some moose Italian sausage with eggs. And then the forced march… OK, it was a great march that Alan and I did on other trails around the Mendenhall Glacier — trails that I didn’t take with Monica on Friday — I swear, they […]

I can’t imagine the house where I’m staying with FOUR kids — THREE kids and their schedules is enough to make me dizzy. Congratulations Monica for being the uber-scheduler… Today’s events: Bagels and cream cheese in the kitchen after coffee in the carriage house. Drive up to Eagle Crest Ski Area — hang out in […]

Somehow I’ve stayed on my usual schedule… sleeping till 8, drinking coffee and checking email until 9, and then dealing with the world. It’s nice to have one’s own apartment to do this in, away from Monica, Alan and the three kids (they are all sweet, but it’s me, in the morning, not pretty). On […]

Ra2f was way gone by the time I texted… “awake yet”. He was at Labor Ready, already. Off to the airport I go for my flight to Juneau to visit my friend Monica, husband Alan, and the remaining kids at home. My two previous trips to Juneau this year were early May (stunning weather — […]

More errands today, with some work thrown in. Guessing my billings will be down 24-35% this month. Guess I’d better book some time out of town. Speaking of travel… by the end of January I’ll been half way to 2011 MVP status on Alaska with 10,530 flight miles — and I haven’t heard from my […]

Yes, I should be working, but they don’t want me to work as much, so I guess I’ll get a “Swanda” jump on Christmas…. The tree is up: And the first batch of cookies are out of the oven… Gotta love that convection oven for baking cookies — quick, quick, quick. Dinner tonight was steaks, […]

The plan was to do breakfast at 8am… my bladder had other ideas. Make that a little after seven. Then the plan was to go back to sleep after breakfast in the main dining car. That part worked for about 45 minutes. Lunch was in the Parlour Car that was decorated for the holidays… It […]