Uncle Markie out and about.
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Rolled over this morning at 7:45am and panicked. We needed to leave the house at 8am for the airport and no one was up, including me. I had starting the morning in panic mode. Luckily it’s the Oakland Airport so it’s not that big a deal. After a little breakfast burrito at the gate, slept […]
No breakfast this morning, seems no one felt like cooking even though we had the time. Oh well. Just made for a little bit of a meltdown later in the morning. DancingBear took BreticusMaximus and his stuff to his house in Hilo, but then for some reason, brought him back. It would have made for […]
Just another lazy day reading the New Yorker on the KenDoll. This place really is paradise, at least until the chipper starts up next door. At least that drowns out the chain saw. But at least one of the workers is cute. DancingBear and BreticusMaximus went exploring around Puna, while Lightning got a massage and […]
That would be the view of the house. The owner also owns the house next door, and the lot beyond that containing the giant covered swimming pool, and a lot down the road that used to be ocean front property until 1987 and the lava came. And pretty lava it is: And pretty me on […]
The dining room table has been turned over to technology: And there are several more devices missing from this picture. Somehow we have buggered up the internet connection so we are running over a cellphone Edge hotspot that Lightning brought along. Nothing like having a bunch of devices competing for bandwidth. If I had cell […]
Too funny. Dancing Bear and I are sitting in First Class, side-by-side across the aisle (1C and 1D) as the rest of the passengers are boarding and I look up to see my friend Kaloha who lives in Santa Cruz. Once we landed we had some time to catch up while he waited for his […]
The tax man cometh, and the tax man goeth in the mail. Actually got the rest of my tax information assembled in the first hour and a half at the shop. Dropped them mail box at 23rd and Union on the way home. Got to the house with half an hour to take a shower […]
I actually was up before the alarm. Granted it was an 8:30am alarm, but considering dinner guests, not bad. Opened at 11, and started working on going through the stack of papers for my 2011 taxes. I got all the credit card bills pulled and filed by month — and that’s most of what I […]
Out of the house at 10:30 and didn’t get back until 2:30, moving the whole time: To the apartment, put load of laundry in, check mail, pick up new parking pass, report that something is backing up into the kitchen sink To Costco to pick up more Alli — which they don’t have so I […]
Disturbing news when I checked my news feed today. A slide in Southern Oregon took out the baggage car of the Coast Starlight last night… that would be the same exact train I’m supposed to board this afternoon. 1-800-USARAIL. Booked on the 6:15pm Cascade train, in coach. No business seats available. Brunch with the boys […]
Up early. 6:30. Off to the apartment to park the car, then off to the Train Station. A great shot of me settled in my Roomette with the complimentary champagne turned into a Red Baron with the addition of a little Cranberry Juice. Lunch on the train (comes with Roomette price). By 2:30 I was […]
Today feels like a grocery list, but I’m not even shopping for groceries. It’s that list of things you have to do, which I’ve already thrown in the trash. What I remember: Blog Swanda Update CRFR site work PayPal Donation Button License Bureau— wrong paperwork for what Swanda needs to do, yet another notarized form […]
Finished up some things at the apartment, then met Jimmy at 11:30 in the food court. Off to Ballard (Shilshoal, so FAR Ballard). Giving Jimmy a ride because the bus runs maybe once an hour out that far. Today’s tasting is another of those gigantic affairs: 165 wines open for sample, probably did ¾ of […]
Up, out, into the shop by 11 to open the doors to… nobody for the first hour or so. An OK Sunday made better by the afterhours tasting with Gage from St. Clouds (the bartender next door, came with appetizers, $12). Great guy, great appetizers (enough that dinner tonight is the salad I forgot to […]
Not a bad day at the shop. We are going through a ton of the Spanish Vermouth that we recently started carrying. This week it was my turn to close up the shop and then head down the hill to a last minute invitation for a traditional St. Patties Day dinner of corned beef, cabbage, […]
I don’t know what it is about this trip, but I can’t seem to get out of bed before 10am. Maybe I’m still on Seattle time. Middle Eastern food for lunch and packed my leftover ribs in my carry-on for later. Off to the airport at three with two bags to check in: Case of […]
Today we (Wendy and I) head out of town to try one of the BBQ joints reviewed by the Wall Street Journal: Perry Foster’s Bar B-Q in Warrensburg, Missouri, about an hour southeast of Kansas City. The verdict? Good, not cheap, but not good enough to warrant an hour drive in each direction. On the […]
Slept in WAY late because I had used the computer as a clock and hadn’t set it back to account for the time change. Was up at 10, which my body said was 8, as did the clock. Wendy and Paul picked me up a little before 1 to head to Arthur Bryant’s for BBQ, […]
Ugh. 6:30am. Maybe I should go back to bed for an hour and just park at the airport. No. It’s out of the house and into the city to leave the car at the apartment and take light rail to the airport. Knowing it’s going to be 79 and sunny in Kansas City, no coat. […]
Run, run, run would describe my day. Dentist at 11 Chris at 12:30 Lunch at 12:45 Small Vineyards (22 wines) tasting at 2 (until 4) Wonderful to pick up Swanda’c car at 4:30 Shopping for Peanut butter for Paul and Gail at 4:45 Finally back to the house at 6 Whew! Lots of miles on […]