Let the record show, the next time I get bronchitis, that this was the most recent time I got bronchitis ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that I posted on the 11th and didn't even mention it was my birthday. Obviously we didn't do much for my birthday, but we bought ourselves a somewhat combined birthday present. Last Friday we went to see Jeff Dunham (the ventriloquist) at Cox Arena in San Diego. Best $300 we've ever spent. We had awesome seats, about 15 ( Read more... )

So we put in an offer on a house, and the bank sent a counter-offer that was more or less crap, so we returned with an offer that was closer to something that wasn't crap, and now we're waiting for Monday to bring us new and exciting promises of homeownership ( Read more... )

I'm 22 pounds overweight via BMI, my body fat percentage is 17.4, and I'm five pounds too heavy for my height based on the Navy's scale. We had our PRT/PFT/PFA/PT Test (everybody calls it something else) today, and I did 81 situps in two minutes, 56 pushups in two minutes, and ran a mile and a half in 11:33 ( Read more... )

We've still got the offer in on the Big Red House(tm), but they've already accepted someone else's offer so unless that one falls through we're not going to get it. It turns out that "short sales" aren't short at all, and the house on Roswell will be undecided for us until February at the earliest, so we're going to spend the next few days looking ( Read more... )

so we've still got the offer in on the Big Red House (tm), and we've pulled a couple offers off of other houses (and got one snatched out from under us), but the one we're really excited about is a house near the intersection of Roswell and 51st. Let that one sink in for a minute if it didn't hit you at first. Anyway the house is huge, in good ( Read more... )

so we've been looking for a house for to buy it for the last couple months, and today we found what we're pretty sure is the perfect house. It was built 43 years ago as a custom job, it's at the end of a cul-de-sac (which does sound better than dead end street), and it's got about 1800 square feet including an upstairs living room and a downstairs ( Read more... )

the suggestion for today's journal, for those with writers' block, mentions that today is the anniversary of the russian revolution. i haven't bothered to look that up, but i'm sure it's accurate. what bothers me is they've quoted karl marx (not as funny as harpo) as having said, "religion is the opium of the people" when i've always heard that ( Read more... )

So, we have a boston pit bull terrier, which is hilarious when you consider that the boston terrier which sired her had less than a quarter of the weight of the pit bull bitch. Yes, I wrote that whole sentence so I could end it with "bitch". It tickled me ( Read more... )

so apparently somebody's having a contest or something today. lotsa buttons and bumper stickers. weird ( Read more... )