Speaking of houses, fuck houses. Or, specifically, fuck property taxes, which in my county are leveled by three different authorities. And fuck little pink forms that look like you’re supposed to use them to appeal your property valuation by The Estimator (insert bad superhero costume) but you are actually supposed to use to get your primary residence exception thing that makes all your taxes smaller. So my mortgage just doubled for now to pay off an escrow shortage that should not be and I get to spend the next two months frantically chasing taxing authorities and hassling them to give me my money back. Or the escrow guy, more accurately.
So yeah - if you’re getting a house in Texas, and specifically in Harris county, the pink form. Send it in.
Okay, so, I’ve gotten the airline thing straightened out, for now. Hopefully the next flight won’t be canceled.
But now the kennel just called and one of the dogs is quite ill, enough so that they’re taking him over to the vet to get checked out. I was just at the vet’s office yesterday, and he was fine! Maybe it’s an adverse reaction to the Lyme vaccination…
It’s not nice to know your dog’s sick, and you can’t do anything to help him, even though you’re just a mile away. I have to wait for my ride to the airport.
Acid
1583
My grandmother died.
Believe me, it’s for the best. She’ll never suffer again. As difficult a time this is for the family, there is a sense of relief somewhere in the depths of sorrow.
Acid
1585
Yes, I did. Thank goodness.
Condolences Acid. i think you mentioned before about coming close, but its good to know that she’s not suffering anymore. Sucks to lose a family member. Hope everything else is okay.
I recently moved to Chicago from Connecticut. I’ll admit, thus far it’s been a fairly tough transition. I decided to make the room because my roommate was moving, I was not going to be able to stay in the house I was living in, and I wanted to see what living in a city was like.
So far, I don’t really like it.
A lot of my discontent is based on how great I had it in Connecticut. I love the east coast, I lived on the water, and I had a great job with great friends. But that’s all behind me now and I have to figure out how to get comfortable in a new place that hasn’t clicked with me yet. I’m thinking I made the wrong decision to move.
Regardless, wrong decision or not, it’s the decision I made. So, that being said, can anyone tell me what a 25 year old with a passion for filmmaking and video games could find to love about Chicago?
There’s an armed home invasion that’s ending in a standoff going on a block away from my Mom’s house just outside of Milwaukee. My sister called to let me know that there were tons of cops running around with “huge guns” everywhere, and asked me what to do. She has to leave for work in about 5 minutes.
EbertFest, maybe?
In other news, guess who’s not leaving today after all? :D
My 3:45 departure was pushed back to 7:30 at the earliest, because of inclement weather in some other state, so there was no way I would make my connection, and there were no other connecting flights to Minneapolis on any airline tonight.
As the FAA tells it:
Due to WEATHER / LOW CEILINGS, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA (PHL). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 3 hours and 33 minutes.
US Airways gave me three options: Stay in town; fly to Philadelphia and spend the night there, or; fly to La Guardia and spend the night in New York.
Since I already live here, I chose option one, which means I’ll get to go to that concert I already sold my ticket to. Fortunately, the theater had a couple of seats left a few rows back from where I had originally been…
And then I’ll get home and dive straight into bed, and get up at 5:00 to make a 7:00 flight. Which had better not be canceled or delayed.
Clearly you need to develop super powers so that you can fly under your own direct control. Get someone to tip a barrel of radioactive waste on you, see what happens!
No need. I can just go stand outside Vermont Yankee. That place always has some part or another falling off or collapsing, like their cooling tower. It’ll probably crumble to the ground before the legislature gets around to renewing their license.
Had to borrow a zoom lens for an article. Canon replied, that they didn’t have what I requested but I could borrow an 800mm priced at about $17,500. I wrote that it was a bit too large and that I would be afraid to even unpack it.
I then contacted Sigma, but after a look around on their product line I asked and accidently linked to the wrong product. They told me that the $32,500 500mm wasn’t an item they had in stock and that it would probably be overkill for my needs (but they didn’t say no)…
I then borrowed a nice 150-500mm and a tripod and am having fun with that now. I really want to buy this, but even way below the prices above, it’s an expensive toy I can ill afford. But nice (I really ought to take more photos):
Scrax
1595
Why is that child maniacally destroying those dandelions?
Jazar
1597
I stain painted my house! Well the front side + fence + mailbox. The two side walls are shared so no painting there and I still have the other side but it’s mostly windows. Damn the HOA for making me do this.
tromik
1598
Only children can be so happy that they start to look evil.
Chris
1599
Sorry to hear of your loss Acid. For the best or not, it still hurts.
Vesper
1600
Lost my cat Sabrina today. We spent all week trying to save her (including being in the animal hospital the past 2 days) but it just didn’t work out. She had congestive heart failure, got sick, and we couldn’t beat the dehydration/kidney deterioration. My wife & I are pretty bummed about it, but my 3 year old twins don’t really understand.
Here she is from a happier time:
