R|ReLo 1n: heading NORTH (on 10/24)

it's official ... i'm out of the "fort stockton" compound. i'm in transit and all over the map (literally the california map!), so i will later back-post my ventures (w/pics - of course!) northbound. the snippet version of 10/24:

• ~ 5:10 AM: up and active on east coast call for project work and doing some project work, while sitting in the guest house of my (now) former landlord, g.
• up to ~ 7:15 AM: coffee w/g and his partner, r, in their wonderful historic, craftsman home (really!) and got to meet 2 little golden pups, sofie and dory, plus lioness - now the matriarch of the retrievers!
  
• up to ~ 8:20 AM: at my former fort stockton digs (post merry-maids 10/23 adventure!), typing/finishing up proposal, greeting the painters (and landlord mentioned plumbers coming by for other compounds' pipe ills)
  
• ~ 8:25 AM forward: to a client meeting in the "la jolla/utc area" with an east coast + oregon client mtg with some utility folks (small world - one of them a fellow i met in jan 2001 + fellow i worked with only over the phone in 2001-2002)
• ~ 11:45 AM: headed to nursery to have 5 alive & purchased trees delivered to the compound - to replace the 5 very not alive ficus trees on my balcony; delivery by jeff delayed just a little, per ignacio.
  
• ~12:15 PM: errand to drugstore
• ~12:45 PM: back to fort stockton digs to meet jeff ... and chat about some REALLY interesting "what 'cha doing in life" type stuff ... uh ... didn't see any plumbers at the compound
  
• ~1:45 PM: to tax accountant, because he was making my life much more pleasant
• ~2:15 PM: to influx (my FAVE coffee place!) for the fabu oatmeal mango cookie and a little chit/chat with fern (and ugh! and i missed the roll-out of their new menu!)
• ~ 2:45 PM: to vagabond (obviously my recent FAVE dining place!) for t-shirts (score!)
• ~ 3:15 PM: to client to visit with s (because i missed j, who'd left ~ 2 PM); a bit of a tear jerker as we both talked about our changes in life ... both moving. it kinda hits ya when you actually think about it!
• ~ 3:45 PM: on to the agency i work with quite a bit - sdapcd - to see 2 of my fave folks - s gal & s guy. y'see ... s gal and i - we're are part of the velma club (it's a shoe thing, peeps!) ... and realizing traffic peaking ... onto north bound freeway
  
• ~4:45 PM: in traffic headed to del mar to see h gal!
• ~5:30 PM: left h gal (THANKS (!!!) for the CDs - music, books, self-help, music, and more music)
• ~6:00 PM: reached t to then head over to the captors of squirrel nutkins and check out the remodeled & new digs of the captors in leucadia
  
• ~8:00 PM: left SD county to head to hermosa beach to hang out overnight with m and bummed that one of my fave restaurants would be closed by the time i reached the l.a. area.
• ~9:50 PM: reached hermosa beach and stopped by mcd's, then totally surprised that m got (drum roll, pahleez!) garlic chicken + rice + black beans + plaintains (and some onions) with a tasty marinade.
  
• into the night chatting and watching a l'il hgtv and bravo's top chef!
  
• a l'il work ... until slumberland around ~1 AM

pics a l'il later.