The house has had four showings in the past week. That’s great traffic — more than it had last month. My agent called me a few minutes ago. She said a lady contacted about doing a lease with option to buy at the end of six months. My agent thought the deal sounded fishy because…
If you use Gmail, beware: a new account-stealing tool is being released in to the wild. Just in time, Google is updating the web mail service with an option for usering secure-socket layers (SSL). If you have Gmail, you should turn this option on. Article summary: A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions…
This list was posted on Slashdot today. Great list. I’ve played a few of the games, especially Depths of Peril which, unlike most games, has versions available for Mac as well as Windows. Lead-in for the article: If you are sick of the boring and overpriced commercial games, then have a look at this list….
The house is supposed to be shown today. Maybe, just maybe this will be result in another offer… Four showings in one week is pretty good, considering the market right now. Maybe I should be more optimistic. I’m trying. I really am. I’m just getting frustrated and feeling like things will never work out. Be…
My real estate agent just called me. The lady who was going to buy the house could not get her financing in order. She had been pre-approved. Apparently something new turned up on her credit report from the time the offer was made until now. She is going to try and get things situated but…
Ambush, the White Wondercat, helping keep the laundry warm: The kitty on lolcats who looks like Ambush, if viewed from the bottom: Related Images:
Yesterday after I posted here, i received another email detailing a second showing for the house. All good news, especially if something happens to the current contract. I don’t remember having this many showings mid-week for quite a while. Maybe it means the market is picking up over all? Or maybe it’s just a fluke?…
To me this is even better than selling the house: Isis will be in North Carolina on the weekend of August 24th! Whee! Finally! Finally! Finally! (Happy dance!) This is like Christmas and birthday and Big Happy Surprise rolled into one. It has been nerve wracking having her in a different state. I trust the…
The house has two more showings this week. I’m glad that it is still having showings even though there is a contract pending. It gives me hope that if something happened and this sale fell through maybe someone else would pick up the house. In the good news category, the home inspection turned up nothing…
Sappho is one of my favorite ancient poets. I’ve found some wonderful pieces by her, and also some good quotes. This one is probably my favorite: “Here cold water babbles through apple branches, and roses keep the whole place in shadow, and from the quivering leaves a trance of slumber falls; here a meadow, where…
This was sent to me by a friend who also has an Arabian horse. Thought I would share it. My treasures do not clink together or glitter, they gleam in the sun and neigh in the night. – Arab proverb And another one I’ve used as a sig on some forums: “The wind of heaven…
Monday evening, I tried to renew a domain through the Dotster web site. No matter what I tried, I could not get the username and password to be accepted. I figured my password was incorrected and used the password retrieval system. This system sends an email to an account associated with the domain. The email…
A friend of mine sent me this in a forwarded email. It’s probably made the rounds before. A couple from Tennessee and a couple from the Northeast were seated side by side on an airplane. The girl from Tennessee, being naturally friendly and all, asked the couple,’So where ya’ll from?’ The Northeast girl replied,’From a…
The house has another showing today. I’m glad that it’s still getting shown, even though there is an offer on it. I haven’t heard anything new. I hope that means things are going along as they should. (And I hope so, because I’m making plans…) Related Images:
This is from an email joke passed along by a friend. FIVE BEST THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK: NUMBER 5: They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen. NUMBER 4: ‘This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time-management course you sent…