The house has a showing scheduled for today and another for tomorrow. Maybe, maybe someone will like it… I get nervous about not being in town. Last time I checked on the house, the hall way had leaves and dirt that had been tracked in by viewers. People who had viewed the house at the time said that it didn’t show well (scores of 2-3 out of 5). After I was in Tennessee...
Continue reading...May 2008
Open Office: Using Page Styles to Create Unique Headers
A lady on a mailing list I’m on asked if it was possible to have secondary header that was not used on the first page. In Microsoft Word you can use section breaks to divide page sets. Each section break can then have it’s own header and footer text. If you remove a section break, the header and footer are removed. You create unique headers and footers in one document in Open Office...
Continue reading...Photogallery
WordPress 2.5 has known to be incompatible with some plugins. Unfortunately, this includes the Aniga plugin I used for my gallery. I read reviews on WordPress’ forums and plugin sites: NexGEN Gallery came highly recommended. Fully configurable, many options… sounded great. Now that my photo gallery has been moved over for several months, I’ve discovered one thing I really don’t like about NexGEN: comments aren’t enabled on the galleries. It’s a technical issue...
Continue reading...Post viewings… no word.
As of tonight, the house has had quite a few viewings after being relisted. Maybe 8 now? Not sure of the exact total. I should be hearing some feedback pretty soon. I feel nervous about hearing back. I was so excited when I thought that maybe one couple were looking at the house a second time. It means they might have a more serious interest than other people who have viewed the house....
Continue reading...Equine Withdrawl
I have pictures of Isis all over my cube. Her face is the background on my cell phone. I carry several hundred megabytes worth of pictures of her every where I go on my MP3 player. It is almost impossible to express how much I miss her. It’s like having your sanity in another state… Missing her is part of why the house not selling has been hitting me so hard. All I...
Continue reading...Ambushing the Vet
The vet visit with Ambush went very well. Laura was right: the vets at the clinic in Hillsborough are excellent. Overall, Ambush seems to be doing pretty well. He’s lost more weight (12 pounds instead of 13.8), so that needs to be monitored. We checked his urine to make sure he wasn’t in kitosis (nope, good thing). And overall he seems to be healty kitty. He is going to start the new insulin,...
Continue reading...Yet more activity!
The house is seeing a lot of activity. Two showings scheduled for today and two more for early next week. One of the people who looked at the house this past week said they might do a second showing today… Maybe they did. Here’s hoping that I get an offer soon! Related Images:
Continue reading...More activity
The house is seeing a lot of activity this week. Two more viewings today. One was scheduled for last night, but cancelled. I added pictures to the gallery (click Photography at the top of the page) if you want to see what the house looks like. I finally finished doing that last night. Now that I have the pictures together, the next step is to make a flyer for posting at the house....
Continue reading...What do you mean “no more PZI”?
Ambush is low on his insulin. He has approximately three doses of PZI left. I called the vet I visited in January and asked they said they didn’t have any more PZI. In fact, the manufacturer wasn’t producing it any more. My friend Laura in Hillsborough has a lot of experience with cats and works closely with feral colony management and kitty rescue. She recommended a vet in Hillsborough who she has been...
Continue reading...Not for the faint of heart
Denis McGrath, blogger of Death Things on Sticks and writer of several Blood Ties episodes, posted a video of Mr Olbermann ranting against President Bush. (I would have posted the video here, but had trouble embedding the code.) Fair warning, before you press play: if you like Bush, you won’t like what Mr Olbermann has to say. I might be against the war in Iraq, but since we are there, it should be...
Continue reading...Three showings in two days
This is a good week for the house: three showings in two days. There is a new showing scheduled for this evening. A lady I work with pointed out that I should try to have a better attitude. I’ve been rather pessimistic. Would you be if you’d had 25+ viewings and no offers? She said that the house is getting good visibility and I just need to focus on attracting the right people...
Continue reading...Lookie here…
My stepmom sent me this picture in my email with the caption “Just checking on you.. Yup. There you are… Sitting at your computer again.” I couldn’t stop laughing. What caption would you put on this picture? I’m not sure where she got it from, so please pardon no link to the original photographer. Related Images:
Continue reading...Ever play Dragon Dice?
I enjoy odd pens and odd dice. Makes sense, since I’m a writer and a gamer. During the late 1990s, I used to play a game calle Dragon Dice. I lost my dice in one of my previous moves, and have missed playing it. I thought it had been discontinued after Wizards of the Coast bought TSR. I recently discovered that SFR had purchased the rights to Dragon Dice. My starter set of...
Continue reading...Two showings in one day
This is a first! The house has two showings scheduled back to back for tonight: 6:30 and 7:00. Wow.Here’s hoping that things will go well and maybe someone will make an offer. Related Images:
Continue reading...Writing for other blogs
What are the implications of writing for another blog?
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