Via 802 Online: You look familiar… MySpace!? Normally this would be a relief because I hate people and don’t want to meet 99.9% them. But this is the second time I’ve seen someone from MySpace I actually wanted to meet but was baffled by what sort of etiquette might govern the situation and was nowhere […]
Yes. That is my cat. My cat licking the wooden banister. No. I don’t understand it either. currently playing: fleep… “Three By Four”
First and foremost: A. & I will have a place to live! Our offer was accepted and the wheels are in motion to move back to Burlington. We’ll miss Barre. We will not miss our commutes. Despite the excitement, we kept it pretty chill tonight. A quick trip out for a celebratory dessert and then […]
As we’d made an offer on a place Wednesday afternoon and it was good through noon Friday (today)… A. & I are on the proverbial pins & needles plan waiting to hear back. The suspense is truly like a scraper on my stomach lining. Less than three official on-the-record hours to go.
Tonight, A. and I had different reaction to our latest round of house-hunting. She passed out. I sat down and looked over even more listings and crunched even more numbers. To put it bluntly: the Burlington-area market is nasty and stilted and tough. The feeling I get is that properties are over-valued but the supply/demand […]
House hunt goes very average. Price points are tough in greater Burlington. We saw a half-dozen places in 48 hours that have left us feeling very flat. We’re not afraid of a little elbow grease to get a place in order but it also seems a little ridiculous that something should need $10-20k in immediate […]
When your house is on the market, cook lots of tasty, good-smelling things in the crockpot. Get that thing started in the a.m. and let it run all day. Let people think about how good your house smells in addition to how good it looks. Whatever works, right? currently playing: Sasha & John Digweed “Delta […]
A crazy couple of weeks tearing by. Seems like we just got through the grand’rents’ 50th and then our own kitchen counters ordeal and things just keep grinding on. Aside from the usual hands full action (work for me, dissertation writing for A.), all the other down time is filled with those all-important projects like […]
Apparently I can now add re-laminating kitchen counters to my repertoire: currently playing: Candy Machine “Anderson’s Lookout”
Picked my way through the Breadloaf Wilderness today to climb Mt. Roosevelt with Adam and Sue. Parts of it seemed like an arboreal post-apocalyptic landscape. Other parts were just very much Vermont wilderness. Very enjoyable 6.8 mile round trip. Some highlights: Great hike. What made it challenging wasn’t the distance or the elevation but the […]