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Scooped
I failed to share this fascinating link the last time I braved the Focus on the Family website. Now cruel.com beat me to it. It is a serious of deeply scientific, extensively researched¹ articles about how to keep your precious child from "turning gay".
My personal favorite of this collection is the one where they offer ironclad proof² that ( Read more... ) -
I don't even remember which day I'm on
My loan was approved today. Yay. Still no end to the Documentation Rape, though. I guess the DNA sample is next. *smirk*
So the inspection last Saturday was a bit of an ordeal. The inspector deemed the newly-redone balcony "unsafe". The balcony supports are joists that run all the way across the house under the second floor. The part of the ( Read more... ) -
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Ya know, if I had known that closing on a house is ten times more chaotic than simply finding a house, maybe I would have thought twice about this whole thing.
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More pictures
Ung. Writing up descriptions for all the new pictures (and reorganizing them into sub-galleries) took way too long. My dad took most of them. I have a couple more, but I don't have the appropriate cable to get them off my camera right now.
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Exterior photos
Interior photosBusy and tiring weekend. More details tomorrow, perhaps ( Read more... ) -
Day six
Mortgage broker called today. They're still waiting on the appraisal and loan approval ( Read more... ) -
Wisdom of the day.
When it comes to Chinese food, you get what you pay for.
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Days three, four and five
The financing process kicked into high gear on Monday. Unfortunately, mortgage rates went up last week. So far I'm stuck with 6.125%. I suppose five years or so from now I'm gonna consider myself lucky to have got such a low rate. But the payments are gonna hurt ( Read more... ) -
Moving on
I'm still irked about the car. Trying to look at the bright side. Nothing was stolen (not like there was anything TO steal besides the stereo. The fucktard that broke into my car last November cleaned me out.), and the damage is limited just to the convertible top. And I kinda wanted to upgrade to a new top with a glass window anyway ( Read more... ) -
Muddafugga!
I've been thinking in the last few weeks that the ONE thing I didn't need in these few next months was a vehicular emergency ( Read more... )
