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06/23/09

Permalink 03:30:00 pm, Categories: Events

We Bought A House

Molly and I are buying a house. It’s a split-level single family house built in 2003 and located in Elyria.

This house was one of the first we looked at. We did look at a bunch of other houses, but we were comparing each to this one. None of them came very close to matching it.

Everything seemed to be working out pretty smoothly for us, but then we placed a bid. After all was said and done, we ended up paying more than we expected, but obviously not more than we were willing.

The next problem that popped up was that there are currently renters in the house and they said they couldn’t move out until July 28th. We knew beforehand that they would get thirty days to move out and that timeline would have worked fairly well for us, but it had to be pushed back four days to accommodate the renters. The only other option would be to have them evicted and deal with that whole messy process. Not having the house four days earlier means that we have to pay rent for some of August and Molly’s parents’ plan to come visit are disrupted.

The house does not come with appliances, so we will be shopping for those in the next few weeks. We are hoping to find some good deals at a local Sears Outlet or during the 4th of July sales coming up.

The majority of the time, it doesn’t seem real that we are buying a house. Then, some thought will strike me about it and I’ll get really excited. I can’t wait to have a garden, a two car garage with work area, more space for Clover, a place to set out my nutcracker collection at Christmas, a guest bedroom, not have to worry about the noise levels of our movies or music, not hear neighbor babies crying upstairs, and be able to read without hearing a tv from the next room.

Exciting (and busy) times are ahead.

06/19/09

Permalink 03:18:53 pm, Categories: General

Breaking The Barrier Down

I haven’t made a real post in a while because I felt like I needed to write up a big entry about our trip to Washington DC before writing about anything else. That DC post may never happen and I don’t want to stop blogging. I was also planning on doing a review of my netbook, but that would take a lot of time and effort, too.

For now, I’ll simply say that the trip to DC was great (even though the weather didn’t cooperate) and the netbook is great (even though the battery life isn’t as awesome as first promised).

I may come back and cover those topics, but I just needed to get these mental barriers out of the way.

06/09/09

Permalink 01:07:35 pm, Categories: Quote, Politics

Glenn Greenwald on The Mindset of Modern Journalists

There are two sides and only two sides to every “debate” – the Beltway Democratic establishment and the Beltway Republican establishment. If those two sides agree on X, then X is deemed true, no matter how false it actually is. If one side disputes X, then X cannot be asserted as fact, no matter how indisputably true it is. The mere fact that another country’s behavior is described as X doesn’t mean that this is how identical behavior by the U.S. should be described. They do everything except investigate and state what is true. In their view, that – stating what is and is not true – is not their role.

05/15/09

Permalink 12:39:28 pm, Categories: Politics

Glenn Greenwald on Creeping Presidential Power

Under Bush, half the country was trained to recite all sorts of dangerous propositions about how important it is to vest The President with all sorts of powers to keep us safe, how vital it is that he keep things secret to protect us from the Terrorists, how we can trust in our leaders to exercise in ways we don’t understand because we know he’s good at heart.

And now, with Obama, a significant portion of the other half of the country is being trained to recite the same things.

link

05/12/09

Permalink 05:09:44 pm, Categories: General

Javascript Gem

One of my co-workers found this little nugget of genius in our codebase today.

ridiculous code

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