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  • IF A WAITER CALLS IN SICK, THE OWNER WAITS ON TABLESIt's been so nutty here. We are deep in the middle of rental season, and with Nicole out as a new mom, we have (ok not we, but "she") has been cleaning the lake homes.…

  • WHY DID I REMOVE THE REAL ESTATE POSTS?I didn't, I just took them private. I'm torn between giving advice from my research and maybe being a downer. So I figured I'd take the safe route and keep those posts private. B…

  • I FORGOT DJ'S BIRTHDAY!!! I'M SURE I'LL FORGET YOURS TOO!I remember hearing all week, DJ's birthday is this week and all that, and then I look on his blog and he did a post about it on his blog.Where would we be without…

  • MY E-STORE NOW OFFERS UPS NEXT DAY AND 2ND DAY AIRWe have switched fulfillment companies, and the new company is much more automated. If you've made any recent purchases in the last month, you'll notice that you get t…

  • IN THE CLASSICAL GUITAR WORLD,THIS IS SHOOTING RAW (** REMIXED)

  • IN THE SHIRT-FOLDING WORLD, THIS IS SHOOTING JPEGS

  • SPEEDBOATING ON LAKE OKANAGAN TODAY

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  • THE CARL FAMILY IS ARRIVING BIT BY BIT (*CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS)To the left is Josh, my future brother in law, and next to him is Rusty, my future father in law. He arrived yesterday and we have been having the most awes…

  • I THINK I HAVE A BUGI have been doing a lot of traveling lately and I forgot to suck on lozenges while flying. I started doing that in November of last year, and went all the way through our 14 city tour in the dead of …

  • GARY TRIES THE EXCAVATORHere at my horse ranch, we are going to build an indoor clay-court tennis pavillion. Well it needs to be 60'x120' and so if we flatten out some of my hillside, it gives me 20' more of land with …

  • IT'S 1:15AM AND WHAT A DAYWow we were on the road nearly six hours - there was a major detour that added 2 hours to our drive home, but we are HERE! So we are all staying at Discovery Bay (that would be me, Mel and Josh…

  • HI I AM A PASSENGER IN THE CAR AND WE ARE ON THE FREEWAY!This is so weird. I have a Verizon access card and we are in a five hour drive from Vancouver to Kelowna so I figured I would sign online and see what's up with e…

  • HI FROM VANCOUVER - I GOT THROUGH THE BORDER WITHOUT A STRIPSEARCH - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIMENormally I have to get pulled into an office and interviewed whenever I come into Canada because one time I was refuse…

  • "DOGS LIVE IN THE MOMENT"- (this is a glimpse of what I would write in my private journal)I decided to make one of these entries public as an example. I have been writing in a journal since I was ten, and then really c…

  • OUR SEATTLE APARTMENT ONE DAY LATER...Yesterday we were still in the other apartment. For some reason everything that kind of didn't fit there just blends in perfectly here. Like we had too many lamps. Now we have jus…

  • WHAT A SPECTACULAR DAY IN SEATTLEWeather was in the mid 80's. This area beats Nice, Monaco, Barcelona, St. Tropez in pretty much every category. The only thing that might be more spectacular would be Hong Kong Harbor, …

  • MOVE IN DAY (click here for images)Today was move-in day. Brian Hartman came over and helped us move in the shortest move ever - we literally moved next door.Well it is all in! And this place is SO much better, it's t…

  • EXCITING NEWS: THE NEW UPCOMING "CHROME DOME"I just got my CAD drawings from my designer for the new Chrome Dome. It will be in two different pieces... the chrome top (actually high gloss lightweight plastic) will have …

  • WE ARE MOVING AGAIN Today the folks next door were moving out, and they left their door open so we walked inside and it is the most awesome corner unit with an incredible view of the Seattle harbor and Puget Sound. It's…

  • TESTING VIDEOS ON XANGAXanga two days ago introduced a brand new video upload service - which is super handy only thing is, it bombed on Firefox on both my Mac and my IntelMac. So once it's up I'll give it another go.Un…

  • TESTI wanna see if I can bring html into this blog. Don't mind me...

  • OK I AM EXPERIMENTING WITH VIDEO BLOGSSO I JUST CHANGED LOCATIONS - CHECK THIS OUT!CLICK HERE

  • MY ALL-NEW VIDEO BLOG!!IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! A - HA! click HERE!!I'm testing my brand new, ALL VIDEO blog . The question you may ask is, WHY?Well, first of all, with the popularity of youtube as an indication, I fee…

  • A BACKUP PLAN THAT CAN'T BE BEAT!Losing data is forever. And my data is super valuable the only thing is that programs like "retrospect" are so confusing! Even after reading the software manual, I couldn't understand w…

  • SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES!Seattle is just getting more awesome the more we discover here. Just a few blocks from our place is an NFL stadium and an NBA stadium. So we've been going through our sports fan…

  • JUST LOOKING AT THIS PHOTO MAKES ME SLEEPYI have the weirdest sleeping schedule. I wake up at about 4:30am usually because I have to go pee. Then things get on my mind, I check my mail and I think of things to do in th…

  • PHOTOS FROM OUR SEATTLE PLACE CLICK HERE TO SEE IMAGESI am really starting to feel more at home here in Seattle. Our home office is decorated pretty much, and we have all of the internet wired up for scanning, etc. I a…

  • I WANTED TO BE A BUS DRIVER...Today we rode on a bus from our apartment to Chinatown. Buses are free within the district which is pretty cool because parking can be a real issue downtown.When I was a kid and everybody w…

  • FLOWERSWe finally have our place nearly finished, which is awful because we moved in here in I think March. We got the last pieces of furniture and because it is a west facing building on the harbor, it gets stinking ho…

  • WOW THANK YOU FOR THE RECOMMENDATION JANUS_TV!Having a BLOG rocks - because in the comments section I just got a recommendation from user "Janus_tv" about mp3yourcar.com. This is so cool because you can put your ipod on…

  • TODAYSeattle has the best shopping anywhere in the world - I mean seriously I would dare say it is even better than NYC. Everything you could possibly imagine can be found here, and then I'll say this... it has the best…

  • I'M RETURNING ITSo I ran down to Sharper Image first thing to get it, and the guy was like - oooooh kaay. When I said I wanted it. It's going back, and here's why:1) there's hardly any contrast ratio. It's either too d…

  • ULTIMATE GADGET FREAK GADGETIf you have a video iPod - just imagine sitting anywhere - laying down in a hammock, and watching an image virtually being projected onto a 42" display at 7 feet away. I can't wait to get the…

  • AOL IS NOW FREE SO IF YOU ARE PAYING $19 A MONTH READ THISI was reading the SEATTLE TIMES and they had an announcement that AOL was going to be removing the mandatory $19/month charge for membership if you have your own …

  • TALLADEGA NIGHTS - SO GOOFY AND I HAVE A SORE THROATFrom laughing so loud. I'm sure that the whole theater heard me. I seriously screamed out loud laughing at a few points - the movie is so silly and whacky. I think t…

  • DENIS IS GOING TO BE MY BEST MANThe only person who guessed this one right was Amy. There's no other choice but Denis for me. He is my most wonderful, loyal friend. Whenever anything super bad happens, (which is real…

  • [SIGH] ALOHA MAUIWe're busy packing to head back home to Seattle. It's an evening flight so we won't be back in Seattle until 6am PST. So I'll talk at y'all then!

  • INFRARED IMAGES FROM MAUI AND SOME TRAVEL ADVICEIt was a lazy day and we didn't leave the hotel. We are going to tonight though, to go to the Grand Wailea for dinner. Tomorrow is our last day here which is a drag, but …

  • NEXT ON THE DRAWING BOARD: THE CHROME DOMEGIVES YOU MORE POWER TO THE DIFFUSERI read the forums all the time. And the reason we went with flexible vinyl (we're the only diffuser made of vinyl) is because people were cha…

  • I NEED A CAKE DECORATING CLASS BECAUSE I AM GOING TO BAKE OUR WEDDING CAKEToday you know we started talking about wedding plans and all that (it's going to be 8/29/07) and kind of going over the guest list and we want to…

  • VIDEO: FUN WITH ANN AND CHUCK

  • HILARIOUS SKY-DIVING SHOT AFTER WE HIT THE WATERSo me, Jessica Claire and Melissa tried sky diving routines in the water. Anyway, David Hessemer just put up a showitweb slideshow of our day with him snorkeling - CLICK H…

  • I SEE MORE OF MY FRIENDS TRAVELING THAN I DO AT HOME WHEREVER THE HECK THAT IS )CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE IMAGES(Today was so fun. Becker, Jessica Claire came over and David Hessemer took us out on his awesome new Zodiac b…

  • THANK YOU JESSJessica Strickland is one of my best friends. She was Mel's best friend now she's one of mine and she wrote the most beautiful post. We got a beautiful Island floral arrangement from them the next day con…

  • SHE SAID YES :)It happened last night on Polo beach in Maui. I knew that Ann and Chuck were coming Tuesday (today) and that after that we would be boating with Becker, Jessica Claire and David Hessemer Wednesday Mornin…

  • FUN WITH CHUCK AND ANN!Melissa and Chuck and Ann have been friends since elementary school. A few weeks ago we shot their wedding and they are honeymooning in Maui and they happened to be here too! So we spent the day …

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