UMTravels

Nicely got all caught up on blog stuff this morning, AND managed to craft one of the more pretty omelets of recent memory: It’s stuffed with lettuce, tomato and onions. Yum. Left for the airport around 12:30 for my 2:15pm flight — much better than Albuquerque (as in closer) but still 45 minutes from the house […]

This post is split between end of yesterday and the end of today. I got to Quemota around 1:30, which left me enough time for a bun-less cheeseburger at the cafè before the 2pm shuttle to “The Birthday Place With Strangers” (the name I’ll use since we weren’t supposed to photograph the place, and well, […]

Early morning report, as I’ll be off the grid until late tomorrow as The Lightning Field is basically in the middle of nowhere, between Quemato and Pie City, New Mexico. For those of you who want more information on The Lightning Field, here is the link to the New Yorker article that got me thinking […]

So, today’s big deal was me going with my father to his every 3-week chemo cycle appointment for his infusion. Well, that was the plan. The reality was something different. Hence, the email that I sent out to Mysis-in-law, brother and aunt early in the afternoon: Went with Dad to his appointment this morning. His […]

Accompanying all visits with the Parental Units is the “list” of things I need to try and fix. Make the printer be able to copy things again (my father the Luddites favorite use for the All-In-One machine) Update the virus protection Update MSN Help place the solar lights on the walkway Pull weeds over the […]

To bed at 1am, and the alarm goes off at 3:30am. As I was reminded recently, quit your bitching, people would kill for your life. Parking and airport security easy but had to check in at the desk as it’s a multi-airline award trip). I was so early that even the Board Room wasn’t open. […]

The morning chore was getting the Madrona Wine Merchants business cards redesigned with the new logo — Jimmie is out and he has tastings (which I will miss) on Monday. On the way to drop off the cards, swung by the apartment for what I thought was a package from my jeweler (M. Lowe & Company […]

Before I get to the boat, I have to share that apparently I’m very popular with the ladies because of my Hairy Chest Competition. Apparently it’s been playing on a loop on one of the ships channels. Here is a bad copy off the TV: Even after we were off the boat — in the restaurant […]

As we start day three on the high seas, a final comment about last night’s dinner in the Empire Room… we both ordered the duck, but shortly after mine arrived the waiter showed up with an “extra” unordered lobster tail and shrimp main course — talk about a rich meal! Tracked down the Friends of Dorothy, […]

Another day of sleeping until whenever and having coffee ready for me when I do roll over, though it was housekeeping, not DancingBear do the service (along with bagels for him, and lox for me). The lox (and coffee) was enough to keep me until noonish when the siren call of the salad bar called […]

So nice to be able to just sleep in this morning, not needing to be out until noon. DancingBear was a saint and had the coffee on and the bangers cooking (to be held in the oven until we were ready) by the time I rolled out of bed. And speaking of DB, the gout […]

The problem with one-day cruises is that they are one day. Why? You don’t get to sleep in, you don’t get to enjoy a leisurely breakfast, you are basically are booted off the boat in the morning half awake. The woes of leisure time. We are booked into the WorldMark at The Canadian, but arriving […]

DancingBear and UncleMarkie are off on a cruise to nowhere today. Well, actually Vancouver, BC. The Sapphire Princess (from their website). Out of the house at 10:30, meet up with DB at the apartment at 11, cab to the pier, check in, get the booze past security, and in our room (amazingly) by 12:15. Unpack […]

The grey skies have returned, winter is upon us once again. I was hoping to have the storefront repainted while it was still sunny and warm, but alas, that might not happen. A couple of hours pre- and post-noon were spent filling, sanding, priming the bits of the counter that are going to get painted. […]

It’s not just wine racks and cabinets that are getting built in South Park. We are getting a bridge, too: No yachts from upstream able to make it through while the barges are in place. Finally, some progress towards a new bridge (opening 2013). But me, I spent my day cleaning up miscellaneous stuff that […]

Well, this is my second try at this post. Somehow I managed to delete the post before posting. Damn. Finished trimming out all the cabinets today, including the bottle rack for the main glass case: Not bad looking, wish I had more empties to fill up the rack for a better photo. Got out of […]

After another solid say of work, the cash wrap is over half done. Lots of finish work (sanding, painting, trim) to go, but here is the status picture of the day: We knocked off about 5:30 when Suze showed up for a photo shoot and a pork chop dinner. This is the shot for the […]

That may be the motto for this week: Another Day, Another Cabinet. At the end of a short day (Jimmy has dinner company coming) we have finished a third of the cash wrap (that place you put the cash register, computer, etc.) This is the tall piece that will hold the computer and printer. We […]

Thank goodness the phone was still in my holster and on the chair by my bed rather than on the charger because at 7:15am I got a call from Dunn Lumber saying they were on their way. He had to call again to say he was in the alley — same guy who did the delivery […]

My only comments today are two photos of the garage, mostly clean, and stacked with wine racking pieces: And look, the floor is clean! And look, the floor is tilted! Tomorrow another load comes from Dunn Lumber. At least the car gets one night in the garage with the top down. Dinner tonight with Swanda, […]