File this under “If I ever win the lottery” or get into a lucrative buisness of some sort, but here is a website displaying some interesting homes: LivingHomes.net
That site is also a great example of how to use Flash on a website in a way that actually makes me /like/ what they did.
The new house is great and we’re loving it. We have painted a few walls, moved in almost all our stuff, and now we are thinking about the next steps.
On the “would be nice” list:
On the “will do someday”
What I’m really interested in talking about is the last two items here.
Personally, I’m thinking these projects are a few years out. Partially because the existing flooring is doing a decent job, partially so we can save up money for these projects. Christina and I would prefer to do the tile before the wood, as the carpet will go with tile better than wood would go with the linoulium. The tile is a cheaper project too.
But, I have a few questions ya’ll might be able to answer/ponder with me.
Would it be worth it to buy a nice vaccum now, knowing we want to get rid of the carpet in 3-5 years? It would keep the carpet in better shape, we’ll always have cat trees we can vaccum, and I’d love to get one that doesn’t need bags.
Would it be better to build shelves into the walls or would stand alone bookshelves be better?
Would you do tile’n’wood or would you just rip everything out, then paint and wax the cement?
Everybody, sing!
“Happy Birthday to Chris, Happy Birthday to Chris, Happy Birthday Dear Christopher, Happy Birthday to Chris”
This was a great book – took me a while to read through it, because it’s densely packed with all sorts of details, but that’s a good thing. The full title is Cache la Poudre: The natural history of a Rocky Mountain river. That pretty much says it all.
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OK, here’s the latest book that I read. Sort of.
This book …. sigh. It’s the people who make Pet Promise pet food, which I thoroughly approve of. The book is signed by one of them, actually, and was given to me. By all accounts, it should have been a nice little feel good book.
We have been saying the job is in Midland, but it is actually in Odessa. Midland is the larger town, so maybe he was told the job was in the Midland area. When were growing up, we called the 2 towns Midland/Odessa, much the same as we say Richmond/Rosenberg or Dallas/ Ft Worth. It happens when towns are close together.
Anyway, Luke is flying out Thursday and interviewing Friday. He found out about this job from a friend who recently went to work there. He called this friend recently and learned that his application had been moved thru the system much faster than usual. Seems they have been looking for someone with his qualifications and experience and haven’t found anyone. Luke looks good to them.
So, at this time, it is looking pretty probable.
They sent him a package yesterday with pertinent information about retirement, insurance and such. If we move, we learned, they will pay for the move; actually they pay moving expenses very well, i think. They will move 2 vehicles, pay for a trailer to pull behind your car if you have things you do not want to trust to a moving company, pay special expenses for pets… (Of course, here is where i have to say that it seems vastly unfair that the people who make enough to pay their own moving expenses are the ones the company pays to move while the minimum wage worker isn’t helped with anything.)
So… at this time i am… not sending out negative thoughts… not all excited and hoping he gets the job, but trying not to jinx it either.
I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.
Chris, I know that somewhere you have a long list of Aleah pictures but i didn’t bookmark it and now i cannot find where you gave the link. Are those pictures still there? This is not the first time i have looked for the link, but i have now officially given up on finding it.
Just finished a great book, literary criticism on the Odyssey (library book). It gave me a whole new set of ways to look at the story; I’ll have to re-read it when I finally unpack it. That’s what good literary criticism does for me; it makes me want to go back to the original and get that broader, deeper, richer understanding of the story.
It also – and this is an aside – sometimes makes me feel that people shouldn’t read real literature until they’re in college, at least. So many things that I read in HS – I think I’ve read them, but then something like this comes along and shows me just how much I missed since I didn’t have any experience or perspective. And if I don’t know to re-read the book, I’ll just miss all that detail.
So .. to the book ..
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… and rework it a bit and you get these two gems:
I must drink beer.
Beer is the painkiller.
And beer is the little drink that brings total satisfaction.
I will drink my beer.
I will permit it to pass through me.
And where the beer has gone there will be nothing.
Only a hangover will remain.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shakes,
the shakes become a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
(FYI: I didn’t write either of them and can’t remember where I got them in the first place)