Once again, as if on cue, escrow calls back.... "oh, we read the wrong number, here's what you actually will need to close...." I think she was confused by the fact that I was completely unsurprised by that.

Well, it continues. The shop called, the alternator is definitely shot. So I am out a few hundred I didn't have to begin with. The only mitigating factor is that the Escrow officer called me, and it may cost less to close than the originally thought. I wouldn't count on it though, the way these days are starting ( Read more... )

My day started at 0430. Ok, that isn't entirely true, I am a night owl, so I didn't actually sleep very much, but it's close enough for government work ( Read more... )

Quit keeping my boys down!

http://www.kiltmen.com/

Rock on!

Holy Crap. My offer got accepted, I go into Escrow tomorrow, and assuming all goes well, I will be a homeowner by the end of the month. Holy Crap. I sense heavy drinking in the near future. Does this mean I am officially all growed up now? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh ( Read more... )

All Right. Normally I ignore the stupdity of the Hollywood World as much as I can. Sometimes though, it gets through. Yesterday on NPR I heard a story about Police in LA evicting squatters from a privatly owned field. They have been living/farming on the field for 10-15 years, rent free, because the owner didn't have any plans for the land. Now he ( Read more... )

Ok- this actually just happened while working on a paper for my Masters' degree, and it frightened me. Halliburton really is everywhere, part of a giant conspiracy. Here I am spell checking a paper, and the spell check in Word halts on my misspelling of Halliburton. Not scary. What was scary was that Word had the correct spelling in it's dictionary ( Read more... )

Training for mass start swims:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3S0wu4Zbfk&search=triathlon

Damn. Just wound up watching a video clip of a contortion act from Cirque du Soliel. I love watching any of their performances. But tonight something random clicked. I spend a lot of time on the Triathlon and Running communties here and have lots of conversations with people in the Navy about running and stuff. Over the years I have spent training ( Read more... )

Ah, adversity and opportunity. WIth the bike busted and my foot in similar condition, I have been pretty bummed out about not training. So since I am being a slacker this week, I finally had time to go to Trapeze School. I just spent the afternoon on a freakin' flying trapeze! Since I am something of a Cirque du Soliel junkie/whore, this was damn ( Read more... )