Today is the day, the house on Billie Ruth is gone. I’ll walk away with enough to pay off Bedford Ct and I’ll trade two mortgages for one property paid in full.

I guess looking back over the last 15 years I’ve owned it, I’ve only really lived there 2 years, the rest of the time it was empty or a rental. I guess I could have kept it for a rental but the neighbors to the south, ugh. Oh well. Supposedly it went to a woman buyer which means it will I left it as I found it when I bought it from my sister. It will clean up really nicely and a privacy fence on the south property line will fix it up well. It sold for $210k and I think I bought it for $88k and now I own the house I bought for $120k and it’s work $300k…

Now I just need the price of land to bottom out like my stock picks and we’re good to go!

I guess that would be a good thing if there weren’t any more scheduled for next year but I don’t believe that’s the case.

Went for a walk today to see the progress on the Hurstview bridge. Slowly coming along. Sandy said she couldn’t believe how long it was taking but I was thinking since there’s a quick detour and it’s not vitally important that it stays open, why not take your time, it’s not an emergency.

Beautiful weather today, 80 and sunny, just what you expect for December 27th LOL.

In other grimmer news, Grace has Covid. I was like oh no, they’re vaccinated right? Wrong, that whole crew isn’t vaxed. Ugh, you can’t fix stupid and I’m happy the stupid are dying, I just don’t want family to be stupid, dead, I meant dead…

So I’ve become worse at dealing with crowds, or maybe it’s just people. I did get completely out of my comfort zone on a recent trip to Sam’s club but I did it. But this morning is more my normal speed. 3 am is a great time to fill up the vehicles at the 24-hour pay-at-the-pump neighborhood Walmart. So $150 later and the Xterra is full and so are both tanks on the truck. Should be good to go for hauling the RV up to Davids for Saturday night.

So everything requires maintenance, well everything man-made anyways. My office chair squeaks, it didn’t when I first got it, but over time, it started to. I honestly didn’t notice until the other night when I did my usual get up in the middle of the night and get some work done, alone and the only one awake I heard it, and then I couldn’t hear anything else. I sprayed, lubed, and tightened but it still squeaked. So last night I took it into the garage and overdosed it with WD-40, that did the trick, and no squeak today. I guess the moral is to keep trying to fix the things you don’t like, you’ll eventually get it…

The shortest day of the year is here, the start of winter, the winter solstice. While we know that the days will now start to get longer, who knows what the weather will prove to be. I’ve gone ahead and started stalking up while the sun is still shining. Exchanged 2 propane tanks the other day and I think that gives me 3 full and 3 partial, probably a month’s worth of heat in the RV. Hit Sam’s club today and picked up another 6 cases of water giving us 7 in rotational storage. And I’ll fill the gas tanks up on the truck and Xterra. The 50-gallon tank on the back of the truck would power the generator for about 7 days while running the RV so good to go there. Enough food to last a month, even if it is old beans and rice. Not sure what nature has in store this year but we’re as prepared as we can be.

I’m not a huge fan of Sundays, it’s not that I have anything against the day on its own but its placement in the week means that it’s Monday’s predecessor and that’s enough to taint its usually good name.
I actually read an article saying that this is a thing and was rather shocked as I believed I was the only one suffering this affliction. To celebrate this revelation I registered the domain name sundayangst.com although I have yet to figure out what to do with it.
I probably should have gone to the church musical today but I got up too late and I’m behind pretty big time on my studies so I’m going to hit the books and see if I can’t make up some time.

I’m selling 1012, I’m not sure if I posted about this before but I’m finally parting ways with that property. The proceeds will pay off 712 and when I turn 50, I’ll owe nothing. The house, paid for. The Xterra, paid for. The RV, paid for. The truck, paid for…

I’m sad to see the place go but what used to be a nice little place in the suburbs is going through pre-gentrification. That’s where all the old people that used to care about their places died and the block goes to hell. At least it’s going to a family instead of becoming a rental, I went through pains for that and I hope it’s helped someone start building a life.

What’s really sad to see is how hard it’s become for the younger folks to buy a house, close to impossible around here. This is going to have long term ramifications because buying a house allows you to build passive wealth. Had I not bought 1012 15 years ago there’s no possible way I could be thinking about retirement.

We had our company Christmas party today, it was online so it wasn’t all that bad. Still feel that I’m terribly lacking in social skills but that’s just me. Some really gut-punch news in that one of my co-workers has a cancer diagnosis. The last time that happened was Nancy at PDS lord rest her soul. I’ll keep good thoughts and hope for the best for her. What else can I do.