We took possession at closing (the REO seller didn’t even show up for the signing) and went to work two days later. The first action I took was to buy a dehumidifier.The humidity was 75% when we took possession. We have had the rainiest summer in close to 50 years in Indiana, so we were [...]
At some point in every home owner’s life, one must think that at least one of the former occupants was either lazy, cheap, dumb or all three. The other factor to consider is that Realtor/Seller often cover problems in a house in order to sell it. The cheapest option is to carpet over any existing [...]
Yes, mortgage papers were signed last week. Rachel and I now own a home. It’s a split level in a much more upscale neighbor than our current apartment at the Orchard. We are next to one of the nicest neighborhoods in Indy. We are still in Indianapolis. I’m not sure if I wanted to make [...]
Minimalism is the opposite of the standard blog layout. Blog authors tend to link everything on every page to every other page. I’m trying to reject the 100 person blog roll in the sidebar attitude for something simpler. For the last week, I’ve been burning the midnight oil to consider changes to the Rachel and [...]
We are waiting on graduate school admissions to decide whether to buy a house which will determine when we are going to Netherlands/Germany for one or two weeks this summer or fall. We really like our missions focused church and have made many friends there –although almost all of them are married with kids so [...]
As of January 2008, the most open field for presidential candidates in many, many years–especially on the Republican side. So you have been browsing around YouTube watching presidential candidates debate? A few years ago, I never thought I would get “news” through YouTube. Of course, I’m hesitant to call political debates news. News it seems [...]
Rachel and I are both small bargain shoppers–no, not small-bargain, we are actually short and have small stomachs. Whenever we eat out, we spend less than $15. We often split an entree and both feel bad for our servers, because if we were bigger, hungrier, less frugal, we’d spend $30 to $40. Which leads me [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
I was using SeeqPod the other day to search for non-album songs sung by Over The Rhine. (By the way, Over The Rhine is coming to Indianapolis on December 12th at the Music Mill. I wonder if it will contain some Christmas music. I’ve never been to one of their Christmas concerts.)
Many of the mp3s [...]
Maybe it is time to move to somewhere else. Below is virtually verbatim of one side of a conversation heard outside my (closed) window not too long ago:
Hey kid! I want to tell you somethin’.
You won’t have to work for no one! You know what I’m sayin’. You know what I’m sayin’. You know man. [...]