Author: Doris

Tonight, Martin and his wife, Patrizia, invited us over to dinner. They live in the next grouping of buildings over from us, so we just walked over. Jeremy made a lemon poppyseed cake and we brought over some cheeses and wine. Their kids, Johann and Clara were there. Frank (another German AMD co-worker) and his kids, Ben and Henri were there. Annette, Frank’s wife was ill with a stomach virus, so was unable to come. We had a nice time talking about vacationing in California, American women, the inability to find hip, cheap, men’s clothing and Dirty Harry.

I don’t care very much about things. Either that or people care too much about their things. The owner of my house came by this morning to move a couple beds to his new place. I just found it funny that he took so much care with it. He laid down a carpet on the floor of the uhaul. He couldn’t fit the mattress in totally flat cause of the wheel wells, so he made a ramp over the wells so that it would lay flush. He also didn’t drag the box spring over the ground at all. I think I would have just thrown it all in the uhaul. whatever. Apparently the owner had bought it off one fo my other friends a long time ago, and I didn’t have to courage to tell him that the original owner probably never treated that bed very well to begin with.

Anyways, being poor is great in a way. I really pare down the things I have and I learn not to buy every random joe thing that I want.

Today is dedicated to cleaning up from our illness. The house looks as if an elephant has come in and settled down and invited all his zoo friends over for a playdate. I need to plan for next week’s meals. Maybe a mexican theme for one night.

Jeremy and I are learning, very slowly about all the resources on the Web for the Ipod. Learning about audio blogs and other things you can download. These things are happening so quickly and are so exciting and I know I’m not even aware of a lot of these things. Things like TIVO, video games, etc..

Stayed home tonight. Nothing really happening on the social agenda. It’s nice to have a break from it all, tho I’m feeling a bit lonely tonight. I ended up watching Zoolander and The Royal Tenenbaums. Both are Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson movies. The last one is a bit ironic mentioning it in the blog. Not sure what I’m going to do for the rest of the night. Sleep sounds good tho.

Today Vince wanted to stay at day care and not come home. Not even after pizza. He crawled into a classmate’s sleeping bag for a nap and didn’t want to come out.

Vince got up this morning in a foul mood. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he went to bed at 11 last night! Jeremy had an interview to host yesterday and one to host today today, so it’s really important that he be at work promptly. I am still in my pajamas.

Hmm, the computer is sooo clean and unblemished. I am happy about that, no more spyware. Now if I can stop those buggers from reinfecting the computer.

Last night I made, chicken drumsticks with a walnut/roasted pepper sauce from Gourmet magazine. Yummy!

Too bad, no comment on my “lyric”, not even from Mom. I was very moved by the sound that morning and wished being asked to dance, at least on the blog, before my time is up and disappear.

Keep smiling 🙂 and love.

Well, Mom is pretty sick and I am thinking not going to Washougal today. But, it really depends on Mom. She already made appointment with some handy man to put a big window for the river view. See how is going.? Hope she is better. But, right now, I still can hear her cough. Sounds not too good.

Yesterday, while waiting to catch the plane to Richland, I met a lady (a grandmom) she was heading to Bedford, Oregon from Minneapolis to see her grandkids. I told her that you are going to retire on the Washington side of the Columbia river near Portland. She kind of figured out right away our intention to have the best of the both worlds – no income and sale taxes. She kind of had that funny look on her face. Don’t know. A lot of people just as practical as we are.

MiniSystems Inc. was on the front page of this journal. The title is “Husband and wife work to promote home-based engineering business” and with our color picture on it. It was a pretty nice article about our success and in-ability (nicer term for failure) to expand our business. It was what it was.

During the last leg of my flight from Seattle to Richland today, a passenger recognized me and showed it to me before Mom did.

I will make copy and posted sometime. Remember, I am a low tech guy and it may take a while.

The other day, someone in South Carolina called about an opportunity there. Right now, I am really a Gypsie and like a Pr—, work for money whereever I find them. Well, that is the way it is.

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