I wrote this earlier .. then lost it somehow, but it was auto-saved... So here it is, later ( Read more... )

For some reason, our business class tickets got changed to coach... on this Amtrak train we are taking from Kelso to Seattle.

It has caused a bit of a hassle as I have no idea why it was changed, and when we were told we needed to ride in coach, we got into some unpleasantness about it.

I have no idea why, but it turns out I did get a notification ( Read more... )

I shaved off my scraggly beard this morning.  Will get a haircut this week too ( Read more... )

Continuing my quest to chronicle events in my life....  here's what was going on over five years ago in July 2006:

July 2006

HOLIDAY!!!!!!!   Here's where we went and what we did... sort of a synopsis of my travel log:

July 5th - We stay overnight at a hotel near Manchester airport.

6th - Flight to Las Vegas.  My parents meet us there and take us ( Read more... )

The flight to Seattle was OK. Got a little bit of sleep on the way, but not much. I fell asleep during the movie "Last King of Scotland" about Idi Amin and woke up right in the middle of a torture scene. Weird stuff ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday we booked flights to the western U.S. for the Christmas time period. We will be visiting relatives in Washington State and then my parents in Arizona for Xmas and to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Brian, Debbie and the kids have also planned to come out ( Read more... )

I wanted to post a few pix from the Red Sox game we went to last month in Seattle.  They're sort of blurry pix of us in our seats, along with Lois and her three kids Natasha, Sean and Matt.

Lois is an e-pal that I've been corresponding with, a handfull of times a year, for the past 10 years or so...   So when we went to Seattle, it was good that we ( Read more... )

We just got out of a Red Sox - Mariners game in Seattle. It was a really great, close game with a few homeruns, but the Mariners came out on top in the bottom of the 9th inning ( Read more... )

I've seen some wierd, wierd stuff today here at the Clydebank Shopping Centre after work ( Read more... )

I exercised like a madman at the gym last night.  I've been going only 2 or 3 times a week lately, tho.  I'll need to improve on that if I'm to hit the surf at Malibu this summer.

I've been planning out our July trip to the U.S. lately, but at the same time conscious that I don't want to plan it out too much.  I want to remain very flexible and go ( Read more... )