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somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
I love it!
I am right there running with them (not with team USA though) -- and laughing at the Hanlons!
I can see the last episode now, Hanlons vs air force. air force goes through some grueling task and mental challenge, hanlons bumble around and stumble across the treasure. You know, like people that find the winter carnival medallion because they were out on a whim on clue 11 and tripped over it. Hope their prize is halfed cause they didn't register their treasure hunter visa card...
You should try it KC. Think positive. Even if you don't make it you still get to have fun noodling the clues. Let me know if you are still able to do the first challenge.
crossing fingers..... staring at the phone
Yes it is normal. Funny though that people don't go through the same upset stomach when conceiving a baby drunk after the bar on a Friday night.
Maybe it's all the signing that does it? :eyeroll:
GL
We actually offered $24,000 less than what they were asking but I think it's fair considering all the work we'll have to do. Plus the house was built in 1988 so there is the probability that we might have to replace the roof and/or cental air unit in the next 5 years.
although, (knock on wood), we think our central air is original equipment with the house (1970), so they have been known to last a long time.
Best parts... pool, hot tub, dead end road, next to woods, and a park behind the house.
We did alright.... I bitched the whole time about what a crappy job they did on their DIY projects and all the things that should have be done and I lamented about the roof and AC probably on it's last legs.
I placed a messsage on my phone last week after getting 50 calls in one week. Since then I have only heard 2 or 3 leave a message -BWAH! :wink:
basically it says if you can't offer 4% fixed and low closing costs than don't call back. I am aware that this is currently impossible BUT my point was to get someone who wanted to TRY and make ME happy & comfortable with a percentage rate and not just pad their pocketbook. This kind of decision is about ME and my future NOT the financer and the bank. I cannot stand the feeling of getting screwed financially! I have great credit and look for bargains -I will NOT pay $5 grand in closing costs and it actually has to be lower than 5.67 to be worth while.
As long as you have good credit, you are in the driver seat.
me on the other hand.....
2) you don't want one of the non-fixed mortgages. there's a lot of people who in the next year are going to be in a world of hurt because their 3/1 arms are going to be adjusting for the first time, and not in a good way.
my grass is 4 feet high in the front yard, however I have a plan for it. I purchased raffle tickets for a charity fundraiser this last weekend where the past national president of my org. will arrive at my house in a prom dress (it's a guy) and mow the lawn. Best $100 I've ever given to charity - if I win!
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
Looks like that'll be ~$3500
We decided not to counter offer right away. Let them sweat a little and think maybe we're looking elsewhere. If they don't make another move in the next couple of days we'll make a counter offer and hopefully they'll be more reasonble.
The funny thing is we know that they are motivated sellers. Their realtor said that are moving close to her father because he is ill and needs to be taken care of... or the story is BS and they are getting a divorce and the wife and kids went to live with her parents. But either way you'd think they would need to sell ASAP. It's been on the market for 2 months. And they haven't had any offers. As it is if they sold it to us we wouldn't close until the end of July. If they wait much longer your talking a late Aug closing. We are taking a risk by either waiting or standing by our offer BUT I think the risk is in our favor being what the market is and that nobody has showed interest yet in the house.
Our realtor said he doesn't think their realtor is working in their best interest. Every time our realtor tries to get some of our questions answered the guy says he's been busy and doesn't know the answer. Uuuhh if there's a fish on line, you don't spend your time baiting other hooks. Their house is priced high for the shape it's in and considering the market. Buyers market -- for every one buyer there are anywhere between 6-14 houses for sale.
Except I don't have family in brainerd anymore.
I guess it's hard because there are PARTS of the house we love. And other parts are nothing to brag about or need improvement. I'm fine with making the changes we want, but I'm factoring the cost of that into the price we are offering.
Parts we love--- pool, hot tub, huge fenced in yard, beautiful addition (living room) and turning the old living room into the dining room with hardwood floors, plus there is a park right behind the house.
patience....... :eyeroll:
We get these in our house from time to time so far I've killed 2 1.5 inchers. My husband missed a 2 incher 2 days ago and I still can't sleep right knowing that it's here..... somewhere. :worried: :chagrin:
or....
Getting a leg up on
excessively-limbed centipedes
I mentioned in a recent column that a centipede the size of a yard rake had managed to get into my house and I dispatched him with my usual implement of centipede control, a machete. That caused many readers to recall with something unlike fondness their own encounters with the excessively-legged creatures and, frankly, considering the amount of e-mail I've received, I'm sorry I brought the whole matter up.
Some readers did not believe I use either a machete or an electric jackhammer to kill centipedes, and I have to admit that kind of hardware may seem extreme. But when I engage in combat with offensively armed insects, I adhere to the Doctrine of Overwhelming Power as espoused by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
I guess what was confusing was the image of me flailing a machete around inside the house, as if I were cutting down banana stumps. I should have pointed out that the technique is more like using a Ginzu knife with many small, rapid chops, so that the centipede is multi-sectioned like a piece of celery.
As far as the jackhammer goes, I concede I only used that once on a centipede and outdoors, at that. I happened to be jackhammering when the centipede rushed me and I diced him up. I highly recommend this method of centipede control to anyone who uses a jackhammer regularly during their yard work.
Brandon and Gail Kop wrote to tell me that I was lucky to have had only one centipede get into the house.
"My wife and I have caught 106 live centipedes in our house in a 10-year period," he wrote. That's a shocking number. But Brandon, I don't think you can refer to a dwelling in which 106 centipedes reside as "our house." It is THEIR house.
Joel Kennedy wrote to complain that I didn't say how to get rid of centipedes "when you find one in bed, when you're naked in the shower or when you are sitting on the toilet." The answers, Joel, are: Jackhammer, jackhammer, jackhammer. Just kidding. I think if I found a centipede in bed, I'd smother him with his little pillow.
Joel said he was sitting on the porcelain throne one day when a centipede dropped from a ceiling fan onto the floor next to him.
"It was so traumatic," he said. "I honestly don't remember what I did." I suspect he did what anyone would have done in his position. Without being too graphic, let's just say "Number Two" is involved.
Henry Shun suggested the way to get rid of centipedes is to place wet slug pellets where cockroaches live. Cockroaches will nibble on the pellets and the centipedes will eat them. Then the centipedes will die from the poison. Hank, buddy, if you are using slugs to get to roaches to get to centipedes around your place, I think you've let your wildlife get a little out of hand.
A reader named Claire said she uses chopsticks to pick up centipedes and then flushes them down the toilet. She also uses a hammer to dispatch those giant cane spiders. Claire, you seem very versatile.
Lisa says she also uses hammers on cane spiders ("It's less messy than a shoe and they don't see it coming") but wonders how to "toilet train" geckos so they don't leave droppings around the house. Small whips, Lisa. Very small whips.
Did get a bit of good news monday night though. Possible job opportunity, only issue is I know former co-workers that work there, and they're getting into legal proceedings with this company's president (he's being vindictive) and I might not wish to go down that road...
When my old place went under and sold off the assests, the company pres bought them, he then made a new company up and is trying to do business as usual with the customers from the old company.
There was another company in the area that had considered bidding on the assets of the old company. IMHO if they'd won the bid, it would've been much better all around. However, they didn't due to the assets didn't include a non-competition clause. Which meant the prez (my current boss) could've lost the bid, but still start a company and go after the customers from the old company, which made bidding on the assets much too risky.
After the prez won the bid (well, basically noone else bid) a few employees from the old place decided not to move on with the new company, two of which took jobs with the company that didn't bid. Since it's the same sort of company, selling office products, the prez thinks this other company is using former employees to get a foothold in the market we served. Basically they're doing the same thing he would've done had they outbid him anyway...
So, he's been pushing his legal options to try and pressure my old co-workers due to their new employer. Funny thing is, they never signed anything with the old company that keeps them from working for a competitor. Neither have I, but again do I really want to push the issue by "defecting"? The other place is a larger company, and they do treat their employees well from what I've heard.
However, I don't feel like I've ever been treated poorly here. Other than working a lot of long hours, which I'm due vacation yet for, just haven't been able to take it with getting everything running smoothly here.
Sometimes I think if I want out, I'd like to get out of the industry instead.
thx kitchy ...whips :wink: :sheepish:
good luck with the flooding cm- we all know your dying to take off that suit and sport your tiger speedo :wink:
anyone bring a slip n' slide to work today?
if you were to jump ship, i'd consider a preemptive injunction against him based on previous behavior.
http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/enron-founder-ken-lay-dies-at-64/20060705102109990014
I bet he's not even dead, I bet he hired the same guy Elvis got to help him "disappear" ...he's really probably kickin back in the bahamas or fiji.
I honestly don't know what this guy is smoking, all I know is I don't want any.
Best I know is if I were to jump ship, I'd put as much distance from him as I could. He's really good at manipulating a system. Odd person in general, devious/clever/intelligent in some ways, and completely disconnected from reality in others. You would go insane trying to make sense of him.
bleech.