Happy Sixth Of July!

Happy Sixth of July!

Yes, I can count, but it was quite a busy and analog weekend so I wasn’t around a PC for most of it and missed the proper Fourth wishes. Or is it FORTH because of the Geekness?

Was a great weekend with lots of new miles on the new MINI – I’m so close to being out of the “Baby Your Engine” millage zone that I’m itchy about it!

Originally Jolene and I were going to head out to Ocean Shores and spend the weekend on the coast. As the week before the Fourth moved [rather quickly] along, we decided instead to head over to a place on the peninsula and stay there for the weekend…

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Sluys’ bakery is full of win. And has this great cinnamon apple or orange bread – sorta like having French toast without having to cook it.

The Biohazard drink in Poulsbo looks like it would actually damage your body. You’ll find it up the road from the Guinea place on the corner, downtown.

Wrap around decks rule.

Pipes bursting during the winter and showering a bathroom with water the following sprint, after the water main is turned on, simply sucks. And it sucks bad.

Did you know you can get these white crystals, put them on a screen and then over a bowl, and it can help with moisture? My parents could have severly used this in our old basement… even with an electric dehumidifier, they couldn’t keep the humidity down.

Twana’s Roadhouse makes one hell of a good burger.

Downtown Quilcene makes me think of downtown Monroe in 1978. With espresso.

Trying to find a hotel on the Olympic Peninsula during a summer holiday weekend is either really hard or prohibitively expensive.

Mount Walker offers a great view to the north and south, but it feels like a foothill, when you look over the valley at Mount Rainier…

There’s no way in hell you should ever drive up a mountain with a manual transmission – the decision to switch to Automatic was a very, very liberating one.

The Bainbridge Ferry is so fast that you can’t even get a book open. And the new MINI alarm system is on par with Mercedes, BMW, and Audi: all the German alarms go off while on the water. :(

Clearwater Casino reminds me of Mohegan Sun in terms of style and class. Put $40 in play in the main casino and left up $5 after tipping the dealers $10. And after only playing 10 hands across four tables/games. Roulette is the only game I didn’t make cash on – bet 17 but 16 hit.

And I kept hearing about all these problems with the ferry system this weekend: we waited a total of 13 minutes on the Seattle side and 2 minutes on the Bainbridge side – it was like the boat was waiting for us, not the other way around.

Was reminded that family members can’t go through a checkout line that is being run by other family members – yes, Traci, that rule still exists!

Did you know Carkeek park has two parts to it? And that it’s not Carcreak? Was news to me.

There’s a bright red patch on my arm, reaffirming that coloring-to-clear suntan lotion should not be just for kids.

Joe Torre has two books out – sadly, I’ve only recently finished the second one and I think I’ll leave it at that. Too painful to re-live the 98-00 years and too annoying to re-live the 01-07 years.

The rabbits on my property don’t seem to like my lettuce but they crack me up, sprinting all around the yard with white tails in the air.

Telephone repair is far easier than computer or software repair. Trust me on this one. The whole profession uses a flat-tip screwdriver for everything.

You can make a pretty solid Sunday Meat Gravy in under an hour.

us.imdb.com continues to be an invaluable resource when watching movies, dealing with the whole “jeez, he looks familiar” bit… even though you can easily recognize Baltar as the guy in Bridget Jones’s Diary without it.

The you-don’t-need-to-make-French-toast breadd makes great French toast after all.

Route 116 is full of retail distractions.

Northwest Trek is full of win. While it’s a small amount of land, and you aren’t allowed to pet anything (or steal the red foxes,) they have a great collection of animals in a free-range type thing. And we saw almost one of everything that they keep – the only missing animal was a white tailed deer… which I’ve seen before, so it was no loss.

Moose are huge.

There’s no buffalo in the US – they’re all bison.

Paradise (@ Mt. Rainier) is much further away than you really think it is. Optical illooshun. Honest.

Seeing what happens when a Ford Pinto and a motorcycle mate is a truly scary combination.

If someone puts up a sign that says “the best mocha from California to Canada” on the front of their espresso shack, I expect them to deliver. Thankfully, they used chocolate milk instead of regular milk, so they won’t be embarrassed by such claims… they were good, but they were not the best though.

Pierre County has a far more reasonable sales tax.

Sonic has a blue coconut slushie that doesn’t quite… slush. Could have been payback for jumping ahead in line and stealing an ordering slot. Crafty MINI jumped the line.

It’s really hard to cook on a propane grill when you’re out of propane.

Such a great weekend… I didn’t want to come back to work today. And that’s saying a lot.

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