Hello fellow COVID-19 survivors! Been a few weeks, figured I should update with the news, such as it is.

So when last I wrote, we were going under contract to sell this house, and making an offer on a home in Richmond. So buckle up, people.

Our offer on that home received a pretty shitty counter-offer--as our realtor put it, the lady selling it had ( Read more... )

Man, I really hoped 2020 was going to be a much-improved year on many fronts. Obviously.. notsomuch. Sheesh.

But the effort to relocate continues, and isn't going too poorly! When I last updated, we had a couple of offers on the house, and neither one ended up working out. One was a lowball offer with some special financing that presented too many ( Read more... )

I mean, wow, right? It's been a pretty crazy couple weeks, on all fronts. Hell of a time to be trying to sell a house and blow up our lives and relocate!

As far as COVID-19 goes, impacts to us haven't been too significant. We've always homeschooled, so school closures don't affect us, though it stinks that all the girls' other activities are on ( Read more... )

Yeah, I knew things were going way too smoothly. Like energy, misery is always conserved.

So Saturday night I was sitting at my computer, and kept hearing a steady noise. After a while my wife noticed it too, and we determined it was coming from the wall between our kitchen and living room, and sounded like water running through a pipe when a ( Read more... )

So things are about to kick into a higher gear, I think. I hope so, anyway!

Last update, I mentioned that we had a realtor coming out to talk about selling our current house. Since we don't have much equity in the place (the curse of having bought juuust before the bubble burst in the late-aughts), we thought we'd start with one of the companies ( Read more... )

Obviously a detailed recap of the past year is out of the question, but I thought I could hit the main bullet points:

Hey, It's A Job. Last time I posted about my job I was about 90 days into the new gig, still in the honeymoon phase. Now I've been here for 14 months, so we're past that, I think! It's still good, for the most part. Every job has ( Read more... )

Warning: Geekery ensues.

A while back we moved the girls all to laptop PCs, mainly to save space and electricity, and because at the time they weren't doing anything more intense than a basic laptop could handle: web-based games, casual games, a little playing around in Word and Paint, etc. But then Hallie (10yo now) got more interested in gaming, ( Read more... )

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Yeah, so this post will be about my new A/V receiver, and maybe some more about the Playstation 4. If neither of those things interests you, feel free to skip and you will miss nothing ( Read more... )

The new A/V receiver was supposed to be delivered Saturday. It was coming via FedEx, who typically come around in the late afternoon, and the delivery notice said "by end of day," so I figured that would be the case. Heather's band had a concert that morning, so the girls and I decided to go to EPCOT for a walk around the world. Heather figured she ( Read more... )