Author: Doris

We are doing our 12 hour layover in Frankfurt. Vince loves flying business class! He’s pretty hilarious with his video remote and a beautiful tray of mac and cheese with nuggets and huge headphones on his head. He went to bed about midnight EST and got up at 4 am EST. And now he’s sleeping during our layover.

Edda’s doing well, she slept for most of the flight.

The Singapore flight attendants are amazing, remembering everbody’s name and being so nice and helpful.

We are hoping Ruby is doing well in baggage, the reason we are doing this 12 hour layover is so Ruby gets to be in a larger kennel and gets to walk around.

July 19

Mom is heading to Denver. Her starting date is August 8th. The assignment is a temp assignment of 3-6 months and can be longer. With higher hour rate and per diem, Mom is ready for the new work in Denver. I will move Mom’s stuffs to Washougal and drive Mom to Denver.

The other upside is that Denver is much easier for me to get in and out. It is also cheaper.

With lot of incentives from Ford, we bought a Ford Crown Victoria yesterday. We need to have a car in Washougal and it is going to be Ford Windstar. F150 was out due to it is too big for Mom plus the reflection of the dash board on the front window bothers Mom a lot.

We did not buy F150 since it is too big. The big problem is the reflection due to the panal which is made of three parts with different colors. It shows on the front glass and there is lots of distraction. The second problem is the rear view mirror is too small and the back window is very small too so the view is not that good even the side mirrors are so big. Daddy is bit disapointed that we did not buy F150.

However, the Crown Vic is a very smooth car and I do like it. With V8 engine, it runs very smoothly. I did not get leather seats since they did not have one. Daddy did not like leather seats anyway.

I think I will know if I have official letter for Denver offer.

We had Arif’s bachelor party last night. Tho I must admit it’s probably not quite the bachelor party that Arif imagined he’d have 4-5 years ago. No strip club or strippers. Just basically hanging out in Arifs’ old stomping grounds in the City. Aka the Fog City Diner and Cafe Greco on Columbus.

I think we’re all getting old. everyone was pretty much beat after that. Oh well.

He broke his collarbone on our bike ride last night. We were coming down 84 and his rear wheel locked up and over he went. He pretty much slammed his shoulder into the pavement, broke the entire right side of his helmet and almost got run over by a car afterwards.

but he’s okay now. I would tease him a bit more, but he isn’t quite pleased with himself like I was when I broke my collarbone. Too bad, since he needs a good ribbing.

heh. onward I suppose!

I am with Mom and will shop for a F150 at Washougal. She is the one like truck. I can not quite figure it out. Here comes the cowgirl – Rena, driving a truck.

Still not cast in stone. Mom probably will be in Denver for a temp job (3-6 months) with the same per diem and 1/3 higher hourly rates as mine. After that, she is eligible to have un-employment payments with WA for 6 months. Those payments remain effective until we are 65 and 7 months for 6 months. Still, it has a lot of time & ??? in between. See what will happen.

I have a prospect in Charlotte, NC with 3 months as a temp and, later, becomes permanent. It is iff right now. But, first, be hired first.

We will look houses in both places and do some math before doing anything. Denver with comparative lower market values and close to Rockies probably is more suitable place. Don’t know.

Ted’s here for the latter half of the week. We are not doing much really except hanging out at bookstores, coffeeshops, etc…

tho tonight we are going to see if Ted’s high altittude training in Denver will allow him to beat me cycling up a mountain at the lower elevations. Basically I should kick his ass, since he’s fat now – he weighs almost as much as I do now. laff.

I suppose if I lose, well, then that’ll be pretty sad.

of course. I biked in today, and my legs aren’t feeling very good. Also today we had our 3rd group BBQ since I’ve been here and sausage and hamburger right before a ride probably isn’t hte best… laff.

oh well.

Well, we are seriously looking for a F150, XL, SuperCab, 40/20/40 Front Seat, 6.5 Box, 4×4, 4.6L V8 & Trailer Tow.

Mom has two prospects, one in Thailand as a perm, one in Denver as a temp.