I awoke at 5:30AM and worked with computer files and emails as our power cord would be cut when we left out this morning. My 2007 Toshiba laptop continues to be a wide-screen workhorse but I haven’t replaced the internal battery- making a/c a necessity. Last minute double checks of the boat, lines, and systems made us ready. OOOOPs I …
Sunday August 31, 2014
Sunday morning we “bent” the sails back on. My first attempt at putting up the jib was to send the tack end up the roller furling track. It didn’t look right…………LoL After getting the main on, Diann exclaimed-“we left the sail cover at your Mom’s house. Other projects ensued. The most important one revealed itself as I inspected the impeller. …
Saturday August 30th 2014
Let’s have a whirlwind——– Up at 6:45AM Picked up a rental car at the New Bern Airport. Went to Mitchell’s Hardware for stainless steel specialty items to make working on the Westebeke Impeller easier. Drove to Oriental and dropped the rental off at Deaton’s Marine where we will become work on the boat- and live on it on “the hard”. …
Friday August 29th 2014
Today I wound down the property management function of my real estate practice. Lettering has been shaved from the plate glass window, HOAs have been referred to another firm, as have my conmmercial management to another firm. Diann and I left Hickory around six PM and made it to the boat at Mid-night. Tired of a full day,is an understatement. …
Written September 9, 2012
Sept 9, 2012 Iy’s been a hard seven years since my last journal entry……… Lin and Larry Pardey are often quoted as advising, “go small, go simple, go now”. Their advice is excellent. Given how much of our “youth” and money we have lost since the recession began, we “could’a & should’a ” left in 2006 and we’d have been …
Written October 31st 2005
October 31st 2005 The Jeanneau trip in April was good. The week long Gemini catamaran tripin May even better. The aftermath was the unveiling of Boating Travel Guide.com July was a fruitful one. We were given the opportunity to acquire a lot on Lake Lookout- which has changed and sped up our plans. Previously in the mode of renting out the …
Written April 7, 2005
Well the BoatingTravelGuide site is about to be refined by design to be functional on time. I found a variety of web design folks: the first wanted a piece of the action and delayed the process; the next offered to do it for $8,000; the next for $4,000; and the one with whom Diann has a relationship- $2,000. It does …
Written March 3rd 2005
Well the town house did finally close but not with the fellow who missed his closing three times. I’m not sure who was more relived, the Seller or me! The other deal, in Maiden, died due to buyer credit history- after I visited the house multiple times. Diann has gone to Statesville for her Thursday night class and won’t be …
Written November 13, 2004
Saturday Nov 13th 9:15 AM I’ve dropped off some painting supplies for a friend to use in painting the doors of the investment office duplex Diann and I bought, rezoned from residential, and are now getting ready to rent. Thursday I managed to juggle commercial real estate brokerage activity, sheet rock repair, showing a house in Maiden (which I am …
Written October 25th 2004
Oct 25th 2004 Today has been another of those REALTOR days which causes concerns about properly funding “the jump”. The townhouse which was to close a week from today is now probably not going to close. It doesn’t matter why (though the reason of the Buyer is absurd), what matters is that my poor Seller will have had only two …