Maine's Mortuaries and a Prize for Old Town Fancy

The past week I've been in many adventures that have kept me from updating the Nickel-Plated Wayfarer. On Wednesday I was busy rubbing elbows with funeral services directors at a conference held at the Holiday Inn in Manchester, NH. The funny thing about funeral directors is they are not morbid at all...in fact, they're some of the funniest, zaniest party-animals I've encountered in my travels. The night I checked into the hotel, there was a loud drum-and-bass beat coming from the hotel's lounge where they were packed in, bumping and grinding. In the morning during a break, I got to meet Mark R. Cournoyer, a funeral director out of Jaffrey, NH with the most bad-ass hearse I'd ever want my corpse to be carried in:


The rest of the week I enjoyed time watching television and avoiding the late nights while I fought off (and beat) a threatening cold, spent a night wining and dining in beautiful Burlington, VT, and suffered a horrible flight home arriving at midnight PST.

Taking in the view at Burlington's airport before the 10 hour flight home to Seattle

This afternoon, me and the gang headed to SIFF Cinemas to attend a contest called Music in Film where Profile of a Genius was entered. Out of the twelve finalists we placed third, which means a bit of air time on the Seattle Channel and some free tickets to the Experience Music Project. When the screening ended, it was snowing outside like I've never seen in Seattle:

Lookin' Seattle, Feelin' Minnesota