January 30, 2005
House Fun
So we got the final contract price for the house from the builder and might I say "HOLY CRAP!" How this midsized project turned into the next Sears Tower is beyond me. These things gather steam until all steam has been exhaused and you're left picking up tattered pieces of
'We didn't ask for's and 'that's probably not necessary's and on and on.
So we got the price to our lender, who after asking several times if we were joking, finally got to work on how we were going to pay for it. As we left I looked back toward the building and saw green and orange smoke coming out of her office, so I'm at least a little encouraged.
Before any of this can move forward though we have the matter of some trees that need to be dealt with (read: ripped up and carried away). Since sitting in front of a keyboard and routing bits around a network are really the extent of my tree-pulling expertise, I figured I'd better enlist some help. I called the good old folks over and J&W Tree service to do the dirty work.
Turns out though that they are big gurly men, and won't touch the tree since it happens to have a large live power line running right through it. Even after repeated attempts to convince them they probably wouldn't die, and that even if they did life ain't so great anyway if your job is pulling trees out of the ground, they demurred.
So I sit and wait for the power company to come and do something, anything about the lines other that park the truck, get out, say, "Yep, gotta move those lines. (Insert name here) needs to come out and see what it's going to take to do this. You free for several months to meet us out here anytime?" But of course, I say. I have no life.
Here's a pic of the offending sapling
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January 09, 2005
Gallery
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January 05, 2005
Welcome Fruitcakes!
Welp, the new site is up. It'll soon be packed with fresh content, pics, the secret of life, and more fun than you can shake a two-meter cattle prod at. Really.
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