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  • Looking for Property

    I’ve begun looking for property. This is a rather daunting task. The old saying that it’s all about location, location, location is rather true. But my needs are simple. I want to find something in Erie or surrounding location that I can put a Bardominium on with a studio and garage.
    The premise to this property is northern storage for the RV/Truck with a studio apartment setup. Ideally in the middle of nowhere but, I can see doing this in town also if the property and tax rate presents itself.

    While I do want property in the middle of nowhere, I think that is better served in WV, KY, VA because that’s away from everything. While the north property will be around family and friends and for summering to be away from this ungodly heat…

    This is the barndo concept I’m thinking of:

  • Rough News Week

    • Some horror out of Ohio where a dad killed his three sons.
    • Russia now has it’s mercenary faction gunning for the military.
    • Bunch of people drown trying to get from Africa to Europe.
    • The Titanic claimed another group of rich people.

    It’s the last one that has me and the rest of the world captivated as death and destruction is so ubiquitous for the most part, but it’s so much more interesting when it happens to people that have it all. We got to see what 250k will buy you for a trip to the Titanic wreck site, and hubris punished with instantaneous death.

    My take-away on it is this: If you have a billion dollars, you have to employ someone who is in charge of making sure you stay alive. This should (ideally) be someone who can either A) speak legally on your behalf or B) have prescribing capabilities, in either case it’s rather imperative that your conversation with them be protected and completely candid. I’ll keep that in mind when I make my first million…

  • Summer is Back, with Vengeance

    It was actually a really nice spring in Texas, there was ample rain and the temperatures were mostly moderate. That would appear to be over and coinciding with the calendar solstice, the heat is on. And its not just the heat, it’s the humidity, the fox affiliate called it disrespectful humidity, that about covers it.

    I am happy to say that the new windows are allowing the HVAC system to hold it’s own against the heat.

  • Paying off the Truck

    So as I was peeking at finances this weekend one account actually grew to more than a loan account meaning I’m paying off the truck this week. I would be paying it off today but it’s a federal holiday. So tomorrow I’ll head over to BOA and end my 8-month relationship with them. Nothing against them but they’re nothing special either so I don’t see any need for their services beyond possible future loan services.

    With the truck paid off the search for land can begin in earnest as they’ll now be cash available for the purchase, and the truck that will haul the RV and equipment and materials is acquired and paid for. Once I get the spare tank on the truck, I’ll also have a way to haul diesel, efficiently, to the job site. Also more than doubling the range for trips. This means I can start looking for a backhoe too.

    In other news, I’m hauling Sandy and Shelly to the airport today where they are flying off to Mexico to hang out with Valerie for a couple of weeks. Meaning I’m left to my own devices, lord help us:) Actually I’m going to geek out and program the rest of the reporting warehouse integration. Finished up the table creates yesterday and now I just need to program the scripts to tie it all together.

  • Happy Fathers Day

    It’s fathers day today. Oddly enough if my math is right the last time I saw my dad awake and alive was 10 years ago. My sister and I met him at his house for fathers day lupper (lunch/supper). We had filet and we had to go get a pan to cook it in at Wal-mart on Beach street. That’s where I took his last picture, I need to figure out where that is now that I think of it. I remember I bought corn holders on that trip also, still have those as well as the pan.

    I wish I had known my father better, not that there’s anything that can be done about it but I always thought that that things may have been slightly better had we been closer and I had been able to learn from him. Oh well, if there does turn out to be an afterlife I’ll definitely look him up. Until then, hope I did you proud dad, you checked out before I actually got the hang of life but I didn’t do too bad:)

  • RIP Rarbg

    I won’t go too deep into what it is/was but if you know it, you’ll know what a loss we’ve incurred. Here was the final sign off from them:

    Hello guys,
    We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
    The past 2 years have been very difficult for us – some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
    others still suffer the side effects of it – not being able to work at all.
    Some are also fighting the war in Europe – ON BOTH SIDES.
    Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
    Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare.
    Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
    After an unanimous vote we’ve decided that we can no longer do it.
    We are sorry 🙁
    Bye

    Thank you guys for your time and effort and I wish you all the best!!!

  • Dishwasher Maintenance

    Almost 10 years since the dishwasher was installed and it starts throwing errors. Honestly if everything were so dependable the world would be a better place. It simply need taken apart and cleaned, had some funky gunk that looked like label pieces from jars and such. Pretty gross but I got it all cleaned up and it seems to be working well. As the old saying goes, if the women can’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

  • Internet GDO Access

    I’ve owned my house for 12 years now, it was just this year that I’ve procured keys to get in my front door. So the garage door is the main egress point of the house. We finally got around to putting in a Genie Access retrofit that allows an app on the phone to tell us if the doors are open or closed and be able to open them remotely. Also allows us to have friends/family to download the app and give them access to it. So we can give friends a garage door opener on the app. Cool!

  • Old Friends & New Faces

    I got a chance to see my old friend Doug today! It’s been a good 20 years since our paths crossed and by chance, he was heading through DFW on his way to Baylor University in Waco to move his daughter to Boston to continue her studies at Harvard. The years haven’t been bad to us I’m happy to say, we’re a bit grayer, a bit wider but wiser and grateful that we’re still around.

    Got a chance to show him the house, grabbed lunch at Bronco’s, and headed down to meet Megan and her SO. Amazing folks and it was great catching up for a couple of hours.

  • Best Part of Traveling…

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best part of traveling is going back home. I’m sitting in the airport in Phoenix waiting for another hour and 15 minutes to board for the 2 hour 40 minute flight back to Dallas. Super excited to be heading home. This was the first time I had to go through customs in ages. Was fairly strait forward and no issues for me. Sandy on the other hand was being a complete asshole and decides she wants to bring fruit back from Mexico even after I had warned her about it. I mean there are always one or two idiots on the plane, I just happened to be sitting next to one this time. Put me in a shitty mood for the rest of the trip home. I really want to know why she did that, was the apple really worth pissing me off for a day? I guess to Sandy it was.