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Still Not Home And thought I'd test posting from m...

Still Not Home
And thought I'd test posting from my phone.

Busy Busy Busy Busy Busy Busy Busy

Ok, preface: My 85 year old Father-in-law, who has finally decided to move out here sometime in the next year or two; decided to "take a trip" in his (almost) brand new Bronco (which he's spent an additional $5k 'tricking' out) out to our place in Belfair, WA to show it off to his son living in Seattle area. Problem is: He can drive only an hour or  two before he gets tired. So, WHO can drive for him? Hmmm...

So, flew out to Detroit April 11th on Delta (after a two hour delay cause the plane was broke), rested a day, then we took off for (my) home.

Decided to go along I-70 as I like that drive (once you hit Denver) and he'd never been that way before. As usual, from Columbus, Ohio to Denver, Co was borderline boring. If not for his driving, bouncing off the lines, crossing lines into oncoming traffic, almost running off the road, I'd have been able to sleep when I wasn't driving.

Scared The Living Shit Out Of Me several times. And that was just the first day.

So, I talked him into letting me drive the 1st and 3rd shifts and it went a lot better. He's still scary behind the wheel but I had to hold my breath for only a couple of hours at a time.

After Denver was really nice. I did get a bit of 'altitude sickness' when we stayed in a place the elevation was over 10,000 feet. Black spots in front of my eyes if I moved too quickly.  Didn't sleep very well as I felt I wasn't getting enough air; even using my CPAP. All in all a crappy night.

But all that cleared up when we got down off that mountain. My goodness there is some beautiful country west of Denver! Some of those canyons are absolutely wonderful! I even managed to get a few pictures.

Arrived at home Wednesday the 16th and it's been let's go here, let's go there, we haven't been to, since we got here.

Friday we made what I call the "Twinkly Vampire Tour" where we head North through Polsbo, across the Hood Canal Bridge to Forks to The Hoh Rain Forest road (and only 10 miles up that because of repairs being made to the road), to Ocean Shores To Olympia to Home. Took 9 hours and about $200 (mostly for food). 387 miles.

Monday we made the trip to Tillamuck, Oregon to see the Air Museum ONLY TO FIND IT CLOSED ON MONDAY'S. Not one of us had thought to check their hours online before we took off. Oh, it was a nice ride and nice eating out and some great scenery; but, 11 hours and 450 miles 'for nothing' was a bit upsetting (to me). And my father-in-law dropped his phone at the last restaurant we ate at in Montesano, WA (BTW, $53 bucks for basically 3 burgers and 3 fries and 3 drinks. We'll never eat there again.) so we had to backtrack about 40 miles (one way).

In Montesano the Fishin Hole Restaurant is freaking excellent! I had the salmon omelette. Not bad. Not bad at all. The Crow's Nest was the $53 burger joint. Food wasn't bad (chicken sandwich I had just didn't feel right) but way too expensive.

Anyway, it's been let's go here/there almost every day. And I'm trying to get end-of-winter shit started around the house. So, Busy.

Busy Busy.

Happy Birthday, Buddy.

I always miss you.  

Young Guys NEED To Know: If It Has Tits Or Tires, It's Gonna Give You Trouble.

Sorry, that's just how life is. Get used to it.

Another week of SSDD except it did, finally, stop raining for a couple of days. Actually nice outside. Never thought I'd think that sunny and 57 degrees was 'nice," but here we are.

Was going to take SWMBO to the All-you-can-eat Chinese place for Date Day but wound up not that hungry so we did Burger King instead. $23 for the two of us. At Burger King. Luckily she's worth it.

Last thursday it was so nice I got out on the tractor and land-planed all the driveways and even the part of the access road to the crappy neighbors. Just happy to be out and about instead of stuck in the house.

Today started working on turning the garage into a wood shop. The 'started' part was picking up all the stuff I've just thrown in there to get it out of the way until I felt it was time to take care of it. Broke down all the Amazon boxes. Put tools away. Stacked the new solar panels neatly against the wall instead of against the table saw. Started up the walk-behind weed whacker.

In other words: Cleaning Up My Mess.

We have about 15 gallons of the paint the previous owner used on the house, that we will never use since SWMBO wants different colors, that are still 'wet.' Wondering if the Habitat folks would want it? It's only been sitting in the garage 15 years...

Discovered and been on 'X' (Twitter). I could get in a lot of trouble if I let myself.

Have finished all but one 'exercise?' in Gun Club VR on the Quest 3. SWAT DLC Survive 18 is kicking my butt! Also done everything one can do in the War In the Pacific: WWI campaigns. Maxed out my squadron(s) and equipment and crew training. Now its pretty much multiplayer to fly/fight with/against others in 'real time.' Quite fun actually.

I'm going to bed.

--   Stan - Spams, Scams & Phishes Referred to Washington State Attorney