Slowly getting back to normal
Hello, Gentle Readers. After a few miserable days of severe allergies and a resulting sinus infection, I'm back at el officina. (Actually, I was back yesterday on the Ref Desk, but that's a horse of a different color.) Today's the only day I work this week, as I get tomorrow off for working yesterday. Schweet. I'm off to spend a few days with the fam. Should be fun. They're quite disappointed about the recent turn of events in our government. (I'm the black sheep Democrat in my family.)
My new favorite tv show is Haulin' House. Last night's episode featured this family who bought a 170-year-old house for $1.00 and moved it to the other side of an island near Detroit. Total cost for moving the house? $610,000.00. Yes, instead of buying or building a house for 600 grand, they buy a roach motel for a buck and move it across town. Makes perrrrfect sense. Baby G, her brother, and I rooted for the house to collapse. It didn't. Oh well, there's always next time.
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!
4 comments:
I sympathize, I too am the lone black sheep democrat in the family. Makes the holidays oh so much fun!
K in LR
so this guy who wanted the house hauled picked this big, old (features which i like), totally crudded out (features which i do not like) house with a leaky roof, rotting foundation, etc. seems that there had been some squatters there, too, since there were cigarette butts all over the place. the carriage house behind it was in even worse shape than the main one, but he insisted on having it.
he bought it for a $1, and budgeted $600,000 for moving and renovation, so it wasn't like he was poor or anything, just ridiculously derelicte and bourgeois.
to top it all off, the process blocked the roads on this island town for like 10 hours, and at one point they had to disconnect utility lines because the house was too tall to get past it. they even cut off tree branches along the way, and a friggin' street/stop sign at one intersection to make room for monster.
i pray that if i ever get this rich, i will never, ever be this stupid.
An addendum to your favorite conservative watchdogs cause: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15835445/.
I don't know how to hyper link.
This stuff makes me want to wreth everywhere.
Love ya!
~The Booklahver
That's interesting that Wal-Mart came out of this saying that they would be essentially neutral on controversial issues, such as gay rights. However, they have been adamantly not neutral on another controversial issue, and banned the drug Plan B at their pharmacies. I Tina Fey said it best when she noted that this was not at all a service to their customers, when you consider who typically shops at Wal-Mart.
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