Back to the island home. Left the house at 10AM. Made four stops totaling about three hours (gas, picking up computer, 45 minutes at Fry's Electronics and Ham Radio Christmas Dinner) Total mileage was about 200 - Camano, Auburn, WA, Bellingham and Camano. Total time was nine hours. Six hours on the road so this averages out to about 33 miles/hour. Some of it was averaging 60 and 70 but a whole lot of it was being stuck in really bad traffic driving at a snails pace. I said fuckit and opted for the toll lane on I-405 North but even this was really bad.
Did not help that the rain was really pouring down.
The dinner was a lot of fun. Everyone just showed up at a local buffet restaurant and we chowed down. Chinese place - really good food with traditional American Buffet as well as Chinese.
Fry's was really sad - lots of empty shelving and a lot of product spread waaaay out to make it look like there was more of a selection than there really was. They are privately owned - hope they are doing OK. It was quite the place when I lived in Seattle - the concept of one-stop shopping for geeks was successful for a long long time.
Heading to Maple Falls to install the repaired server tomorrow.. Then, back to our usual schedule of Thursday meeting here and the rest of the weekend packing and moving.
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