MatthewF
2921
After 5 months, I finally got a job. Nice studio in NW Hollywood, cool guys, and a killer property to work on. Now I can finally get the hell out of Gainesville. Fuck you Florida, I’m out.
It’s the only pain I’ve ever been through that was enough to bring me to tears. It’s not that it’s so strong of a pain, but because it involves inflamed nerves and there was no surcease it just slowly wore down my ability to deal with it. I suspect that I wasn’t able to produce sufficient endorphins to partially mask it after a while.
I’ve had considerable corrective dental work in my teenage years, and a marathon root canal job on both front teeth, but having my two lower wisdom teeth removed was a breeze: It probably took longer waiting for the novacaine to work than the actual teeth-pulling. A third wisdom tooth simpy fell apart on its own (near impossble to reach with the toothbrush) and the fourth will likely go out the same way.
Compared to my two nephews though I’ve been very lucky: They had extensive jaw surgery that entailed having their jaws cut into pieces and reassembled. I keep telling my sister and brother in law they suck at making babies.
Athryn
2924
Our new home purchase saga continues. Today, we spent about $5500 at Lowe’s today, buying new carpet, a 50 gallon water heater, a refrigerator, a garbage disposal and some other miscellaneous crap. Monday, we meet with a painter to have the whole place repainted.
Foreclosures are and aren’t a deal, heh. This one was in really good condition compared to others, and it was still pretty filthy.
Dean
2925
I feel your pain.
I got a $200 Home Depot gift card for my birthday and that shit was gone when we bought the accessories we needed to paint.
My wife decided we needed to spend $50 a gallon for Benjamin Moore super duper special paint so could do it in one coat with no primer. It still needed two coats.
The floor guy said we needed to sand the baseboards before he came in to sand the floors, because if paint chipped off while he was sanding, he’d sand it into the floor. Last weekend was spend sanding baseboards instead of painting. We still have to prime and paint them in the entire downstairs. In fact, we still have to paint the entire downstairs.
The floor guys were in this week. The floors look awesome. I am $5000 poorer.
Of course, since we still have to paint (because we didn’t get it done in time) we’ll now most likely spill paint on some portion of the floor and ruin our brand new finish, but that’s just me being a curmudgeon.
The movers arrive on Wednesday. Gentle Giant guys are awesome, but we’re spending this weekend packing instead of over at the house painting. I get to about 7pm and I’m just fucking done. I can’t do anymore.
Of course, I packed all the games yesterday.
Mine wasn’t even a foreclosure!
Best part-- yellowjackets decided to nest on the hill right in our front lawn. So I got to spray Raid at pissed-off stinging insects this evening. No stings on me, you little cocksuckers! My wife wanted to call an exterminator, but I’ve been killing bugs since I was about 4, because I’m male, goddammit. Hopefully there will be a big pile of dead insects outside the hole tomorrow.
Got poison oak on my hands today while planting a redwood. This stuff hurts.
Jesus guys, you’re about a month and two weeks ahead of me in the process. Could you just save your stories until it’s too late and I’m committed? :P
(We had inspection Friday… the house was a flip so there were some… interesting… choices made. However, only a few actual problems:
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We’re really particular, so we feel that the only bathtubs/showers in the house absolutely need to have working hot water. Apparently the plumbers who redid them weren’t of the same mindset.
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Similarly, it seems that if you have GFI outlets in the master bathroom, and a jetted tub (and lights in the bedroom closet, and a ceiling fan) they should work. The electricians kind of got that, since some outlets kind of work. But we insist that maybe they should work right, lights should be on a switch, etc.
We’ll see how the owner feels about paying an electrician to fix all this crap. :P
tromik
2928
Got all my marks for the spring and summer term: straight A’s! Got A+ in both corporate finance and management accounting, which was a nice surprise. I’m sure my accounting prof bumped my mark up.
Anyway, I feel really comfortable with the material in those courses, and since a lot of people find them difficult, I was considering tutoring. I have no idea how to go about this, though. Am I qualified? I’ve seen flyers around the campus that just list the tutor’s mark in that class. I was a lifesaving instructor for a couple of years, so I’m okay with teaching stuff.
Athryn
2929
See, it’s pain but it’s also good pain. It’s the bit where you know that everything you’re putting into it, you’re putting it into your property, and that’s a great feeling.
Although for us, the sad-ish thing is that we’ll have beautiful floors and walls, but shabby ass furniture. :P
We’ll see how the owner feels about paying an electrician to fix all this crap. :P
You’re lucky that they’re paying! Even though it was the bank’s fault that the water heater was busted (they failed to winterize the property properly) they refused to pay for replacing it, so we had to pay for it ourselves.
One funny thing about our new place, we met a couple of our neighbors recently, and they seemed extremely greatful that it was a younger couple moving in. Evidently the previous owner moved to Florida, and left her kids in the place, and they used to throw noisy parties all the time.
Dean
2930
Same here. I’m kind of embarrassed to point the movers at our shabby couch.
My recliner sits on the curb, waiting for the trashmen. Even the charity truck wouldn’t take it. It will not see the promised land.
But I have money secretly put aside for a new recliner. I’m a man, goddammit! I need a recliner to play games.
I illustrated an essay by Paul Krugman in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine. It paid well, but it took up just about all of my summer vacation :(
Yeah, I was going to mention seeing this over in the Dropbox thread. Gorgeous work, Jason!
That’s pretty cool.
Not something I can get a hold of now, and probably not going to be online?
Using that much time, is it worth it? Or is it more of a vanity thing and something to make more people aware of your stuff?
Right now, I’m helping to write a popular science encyclopedia… and I can se, that I’m using too much time on doing a great job compared to what they pay. So I’m justifying that to myself as a way of branching out and building my personal “brand”.
Lurb
2934
Ah toil. I’m in the middle of finishing the overprocrastinated term papers for the few subjects I didn’t care for in my M.A. It’s excruciating, writing page upon page of bloated meaningless garbage hoping to turn it in so late that no one actually bothers to read it but soon enough that it actually gets me passed.
The town is full of partying folks, music and free drinks, and the weather is still nice.
Why oh why can’t they just average all the stuff I’ve aced with these few zeroes and get on with it?
Marged
2935
Thanks for the kind words, fellas.
It was worth it. the art director was good at his job, and there were three rounds of revisions. It was a flat fee, but I think in the end it boiled down to about $125 an hour, or $500 per illo. The illos are black and white, there are 10 of them, and the total pay was $5000. It really did kind of wreck my vacation, but when the NYT calls it’s hard to say no. That kind of visibility for a freelancer is always good.
Thanks.
That is nice, Jason.
Sarkus
2938
Although I’ve lived in Seattle for a number of years, today was my first visit to the Museum of Flight as I went with visiting relatives. It’s a pretty excellent museum, in that we spent about five hours in the place and still didn’t see everything. Plenty of WWI and WW2 actual aircraft, tons of historical information, a whole wing devoted to the development of Boeing (and thus commercial aviation in the US), plus lots of other interesting planes like a Concord and one of the retired Air Force One planes.
On top of that, it was relatively cheap as such places go.
Ooh, I think that’s where the Champlin Fighter Museum collection moved to. That was a great aircraft museum at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona (near where they build the Apache), with a stunning assortment of planes from the First and Second World Wars, as well as a few jet aircraft from the Vietnam era.
You may recognize some of these planes, or perhaps some of these, from their collection.
Most of the World War I planes were reproductions, but they’re still quite beautiful, as far as mechanized killing machines go.
Damn, I miss that museum. I don’t miss Phoenix, but that museum made almost any visit to the area worthwhile.
