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Mortgage Bailout Plans and Schadenfreude
December 4, 2007 | 2 Comments
My wife had an interesting tale to relate from a weekend of Christmas shopping, which basically boiled down into bumping into the mortgage banker that we used for the last two loans at a local retail outlet. Except, umm, she didn’t recognize him at first, as he was working there, not shopping.
Which I suppose is […]
Dec
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My Christmas Wish List
December 3, 2007 | 5 Comments
Dear Santa,
Please bring me a new back for Christmas. K, thx, bye.
Me
I realize that 33 isn’t exactly a ripe old age, comparatively speaking, but it’s also not early/mid 20’s, either, when I’d do all sorts of grunt monkey labor over a weekend and be completely good to goon Monday, without a twinge, ache, or creak. […]
Dec
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But I Swear I was Knocking on Wood
December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Mini-crisis with the sale of House #1 yesterday, but it’s looking like it was averted. One of the items on their inspection was that the water meter was registering a tiny trickle of water somewhere that shouldn’t be there with everything turned off. They wanted us to track that down, fix the leak if one […]