December 2010

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01-Dec-2010 our life. daily. Yet another travel day. Back when Northwest Airlines was around flying from Minneapolis to Portland was a quick direct flight. Since they disappeared it’s become a full day affair with a few hundred extra miles detour and stop in Denver. Again, back in our pre-kid days … Read More

November 2010

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01-Nov-2010 our life. daily. 02-Nov-2010 our life. daily. Travel day. Up and on the road at 7:30 this morning we made our way through traffic, returned our car, shuttled to the terminal, got Ouest’s baby food through the bomb sniffing mutts, and loaded on time for leg one of our … Read More

October 2010

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01-Oct-2010 bumfuzzle. The battery bank issue still eludes me. Today I tried a few more wiring combinations, always with the same result, a rapid fire clicking of the inverter/charger within a couple of minutes. After a while I started to wonder if it was somehow related to the house batteries … Read More

September 2010

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01-Sep-2010 our life. daily. If I squint my eyes a little bit this is a video of me on a Thursday night in college. 02-Sep-2010 our life. daily. Back home on the water and our timing couldn’t be worse. It was a hundred degrees today and isn’t cooling off much … Read More

August 2010

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01-Aug-2010 bumfuzzle. Ali has been hard at work cleaning and organizing the interior while I’ve been puttering around on whatever else I can find to do while staying out of her way and not waking the baby. Today I took a rag and some soap to the long neglected hull. … Read More

July 2010

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01-July-2010 4:12 PM The paperwork shuffle continues on the boat. Though I do believe we are getting very close now. The seller has got the bill of sale. Once he signs that and overnights it to the documenter we will go ahead and wire the money to his account. Once … Read More

June 2010

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01-June-2010 our life. daily. Babies really are amazing. The way they are constantly changing, growing, and learning. We started solid food ten days ago. At the time she could hardly get any of it in her mouth and down her throat. Now we can’t shovel it in fast enough. 02-June-2010 … Read More

May 2010

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01-May-2010 7:16 AM It’s been funny that ever since we said we were looking at getting a boat again we have received a constant stream of e-mails and facebook messages telling us exactly what we should get. Everybody has an opinion on boats. And apparently a few of those people … Read More

April 2010

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01-Apr-2010 8:54 AM Big things are happening around here. Well, big things for a baby anyway. Ouest rolled over from her belly to her back this morning. Not once, but three times, before becoming too exhausted to pick her head up off the floor anymore. It was pretty cute to … Read More

March 2010

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01-Mar-2010 3:49 PM I don’t know why Ali and I always fret over these flights with Ouest. She’s a better airline passenger than we are. We were at the airport in the dark this morning and she was all smiles. When we boarded the plane she gave a good screaming … Read More

February 2010

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01-Feb-2010 7:50 AM This is getting ridiculous. We all went to bed at 7:15 last night and at 7:50 this morning we’re still sitting around yawning. Three-thirty a.m. strolls around the parking lot will do that. 01-Feb-2010 3:45 PM I was talking with the girl who lives two floors above … Read More