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Jackie Kennedy is a 4-wheelin' kind of girl.

Jackie Kennedy is a a 4-wheelin' kind of girl and recently enjoyed driving this rig during a recent trip to Chuck E Cheese's in Bellevue

Jackie Kennedy Had Fun at the Bellevue Family 4th

Jackie Kennedy had a great time at the Bellevue Family 4th of July Celebration in Downtown Bellevue Park, as she has for the past 4 years.

Silver Lining in Being Stacked Up in Paperwork

Every once in awhile, I get down on my self for getting so behind in paperwork. Even though I have a good accounting background, I don't like bookkeeping very much.

Holiday weekends like this are usually a good time for me to spend a bunch of time to try to get caught up. Going through a couple stacks of paperwork this morning, I found a DMV renewal form for Eastside Business's mobile warehouse (it's an old Dodge RAM minivan). By sheer luck (?) I found that today was the expiration date.

This van does not go on the road more than every other month or so and doesn't get a lot of attention. I didn't know if it was going to pass the smog test, but took it out, got a little petrol and drove a few miles up I-90 towards Snoqualmie. I then turned around and drove to the Emissions station in the Eastgate area. To my surprise, there was no line at all and I drove right up. It was a minor miracle, but the van actually passed emissions! (despite the fact that is was overheating and water was spewing out of the radiator). I'm just glad I don't have to spend a bunch more money on the van and hope that it holds together to get me moved in about 10 days or so. (I'm looking forward to being back close to downtown Bellevue!)

Another great thing about working on paperwork today is that I am realizing that I am involved in a lot of great things and it's no wonder I'm busy and behind on lots of stuff. Among the current projects I've worked on in the past week are $500 Flat Fee Listings by AAA Properties (just got a new listing last week), Eastside Business and Eastside Life newspapers and online news sites, helping to reorganize Eastside GreenDrinks, The Hair Farmer project, helping on the board for Overlake Service League's upcoming wine event, helping to organize the Eastside Small Business Partner Net-Partying Event at The Village Bellevue. I almost forgot the all-new The Eastside Life Community Blog (where are all the Eastside bloggers?)

All of those things are great to work on, but don't include the biggest priority and brightest light in my life: Jackie Kennedy.

All in all, I guess it's ok to be behind, considering how extremely busy I keep myself. I am a VERY VERY lucky guy.

Skidoodleski - The Eastside is THE Best Side

Since Last Post, MacLaren was fired and M's are still in last place

I knew I hadn't been blogging here much (mostly at the Eastside Life blog), but just realized that MacLaren was still the manager of the M's on my last post (I hope I didn't get him fired ...). He's a nice guy, but given an impossible task of making the M's contend. He's gone, but so far the result seems to be about the same - cellar dwellars.

The good news is that they are still located in Seattle, unlike the lowly 'team' formerly known as the Sonics. There is a chance for them to field a much more competitive team in the future, but they must rethink some of their past personnel decisions. It's time to cut your losses, bite the bullet, pay some guaranteed salaries and get rid of the big holes in the lineup.