[Context: the Bedrooms Are For People initiative to change Boulder's "only 3 unrelated people can live in a house" code is in dispute because of a dispute over signature deadlines, so supporters have been making their voice heard in communication to city council.]

I am writing in support of eliminating the “3 unrelated” city occupancy rule, and to ( Read more... )

Previously I asked for ideas on how to open a blocked door. I also posted it on my office's misc list, where it generated a lot of interest. I posted the following to that list after resolving the problem, but neglected to post here.
Thanks everyone for your good ideas. And your bad ideas, like rodents. My wife pointed out that introducing a new ( Read more... )

I've got an interesting problem at my house that I hope someone can help me solve.
TL;DR: There's a metal art frame wedged between a wall and the door to a room, and I'd like to move it a little so we can get the door open.

Details:
Our spare room has a door that swings in from the hallway.  To enter the room one must step in and turn left, because ( Read more... )

Being raised by a bibliophibian from a family of teachers and a recording engineer/radio DJ, books and music were ubiquitous in my household. I became an adult around the time that the Internet was hitting its stride as an endless repository of digital media, but I've still got an emotional attachment to physical media and the "save everything" ( Read more... )

March through June in Colorado have been a lot wetter than the norm over the last three decades. The last time I remember this much rain (excluding the 2013 freak flooding event) was 1990, which I remember as the year of rained out Little League games.

July seems to have dried out a bit, but it's still been an unusually water-themed month for me.

On ( Read more... )

While poking through papers the previous homeowners left, I noticed the well permit change of address form with a sticky note saying to check the website in a few weeks. So I poked around the Division of Water Resources website and found the document history for our well permit ( Read more... )

Today I received a glossy mailing from a real estate agent addressed to the folks who sold us their house a month ago. The flyer starts "Selling a home in East Boulder requires extensive local knowledge, a great marketing plan, and superior negotiation skills." It then lists several houses currently for sale or under contract. Finally it lists ( Read more... )

The timing of the whole house buying process has worked out exquisitely ( Read more... )

On Monday we're signing a bunch of documents and an escrow company will move a whole bunch of money around between accounts and we're going to move some essentials into a house and change the locks ( Read more... )

I started a more narrative version of this post, but got pulled into adulting matters instead, so here's the bullet points of what I've been up to for the last month and a half.

• Writing a document with what we requirements, preferences, and perks we'd want in a house
• Reading about the process of buying a house
• Looking at houses on real estate ( Read more... )