First Full Weekend and Buying Oil Heat

09Mar07

This is my first full weekend in the new house. It’s also the first time my daughters have seen the house. I put them to bed a few minutes ago, and they are sleeping soundly in their room. Let’s hope it stays that way—you never know with three year olds. Although the painting I did [...]

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All Moved In

04Mar07

Well, I’m all moved into the new house. And I lasted a grand total of… drumroll… about thirty minutes with no TV before I ran out and got a set of rabbit ears. Fortunately I am close enough to town that I get all the available channels easily with the old-school antenna. That means no [...]

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I’m a Homeowner!

01Mar07

Well, closing actually happened (it looked like it wasn’t going to happen for a while). I’m now a homeowner. After the settlement, I spent the rest of today getting the living room ready to paint and doing a few other things around the house. The fridge was delivered successfully, though it just barely fit through [...]

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The One In Which the Deal Almost Falls Through

28Feb07

Sometimes you and all your people (brokers, agents and lawyers, oh my!) can do everything in your power to make sure everything goes smoothly, and something still goes wrong. In this case, the problem centered around the seller. We were scheduled to close today at 1, but at the end of the transaction, the seller [...]

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On Refrigerators and the Internets

20Feb07

This past weekend I ordered a fridge online from a big-box home improvement store. I was very limited in what models of fridges I could even consider, as the fridge space in my kitchen is rather small. Early on I determined that I needed to look in the 18 cubic foot size range, as that [...]

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