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Alright, my two readers, here is an interesting offer for you – you get to vote on what color we put in our master bathroom. Granted, we might not pay attention to your votes, but if you have an [...]

We interviewed three contractors to work on our renovation plans for our house, two weeks ago, right after we bought it (literally the day of, in one case).

Two of those contractors have never even responded or communicated [...]

We have “owned” (in that we have a contract with a bank that actually owns it) our new house for a little over a week now, and have already received four separate spam mailings complete with full names, addresses, [...]

Well, it only took us 24 man-hours over the course of four days, but the 26-ish-year-old kitchen has been almost entirely removed from our new house – the only pieces remaining are the fully-functional refrigerator that will find a [...]

What is it with me and television series that only last a single season?

As a child, I thoroughly enjoyed The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., and it died after a single season (though that season was [...]

In the next hour, we will start on the closing process of our new house, and everything should be done, signed, and turned over within the next few hours.

Damn. That is a lot of money. [...]

People looking at maps employing the Mercator projection and expounding on how large Alaska is in comparison to the rest of the United [...]

Just once, I would like to have a day off where I either did not feel like crap, or was not running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
Looks like this is going to be [...]

Sweep the gorramed snow off your gorramed cars, and, yes, that includes their frakking roofs.
That is [...]

Better Half and I are headed down to the land where even obeying the law can result in you getting legally arrested for a long weekend… Good fun. But, as they say, “concealed means concealed”. Unfortunately, for [...]

The one day that it was above freezing and I am headed that direction already (to drop off Better Half at the airport), it rains sufficiently hard to probably make the Tail of the Dragon beyond treacherous.

Well, aside from a few holes in the roofing seams between the flashing and the vertical wall next to it, a rotting centerpost in the two-car garage (not uncommon in this area), and one of the two heat pumps [...]

In addition to doing my best to piss off anti-rights advocates and liberals in general (but I repeat myself), I occasionally do some dabbling in the kitchen as well. After a year or so of experimentation, I seem to [...]

They took our offer of 0.92X and no home warranty.
Holy crap.
Barring anything unusual found in the home inspection, we might just have a [...]

Erf.
The house was listed at X.
We offered 0.89X.
They countered with 0.96X.
We countered that with 0.91X.
They just came back with 0.95X.
We just verbally countered with 0.915X.
Obviously I [...]

So we received a counter-offer. The house was listed at X, we offered 0.89X, and they countered with 0.96X. Not quite as far down as we were hoping, but it is [...]

So Better Half and I put an offer on yet another house yesterday night – this makes number four. Also the first house that we have put an offer on that was not on a street that started with [...]

But we still get a two-hour delay. W00t. Now I just have to see if I can get my car out of the parking [...]

This was probably not its first time in the white-and-slippery stuff, but it was with us:

Unfortunately, all that white stuff you see is the useless demon-snow that happens when it is too cold, [...]

*sigh* Back to the dilithium mines of Rura Penthe for me. I was trying to remember if there was ever a time that I actually looked forward to not being sick again… Summer vacations were all I could figure. [...]

Games from the last generation of consoles are more-or-less valueless.
Also, do not boil the mulling [...]

Oh, yeah, and that bug so kindly provided to us by the two-year-old Typhoid Mary?
Bronchitis.
Good fun. Now we get to take a thousand milligrams of orange stuff a day to try and knock [...]

Looks like everyone made it on yet another orbit around the sun… Here is to wishing you and your families a happy, safe, and blessed new year.
So far, though, the new one seems to be looking a [...]

There are a few more posts rattling around my brain this evening, but, honestly, I have nothing I am overly inclined to write at the moment. As such, I would like to wish my readers a very safe and [...]

I guess we should have known better than to spend Christmas with family when half of the individuals were recovering from some manner of icky bug. I blame the disease-carrier of the bunch (the two-year-old, naturally), but, either way, [...]

To any of the poor schlubs who are spending time online today rather than with their families, have a very Merry [...]

By this time, Better Half and I should be headed south to spend Christmas with family. I have a few posts lined up to generate over the holiday, but nothing too spectacular. Have a very Merry Christmas, and catch [...]

Ten toys from Amazon.com: $50.

Dropping them off at a local United States Marine Corps recruiting center: 5 minutes.
Knowing that ten kids will have at least one (hopefully additional) [...]

In what I promise will be my last hint-that-no-one-cares-about, could I possibly interest anyone in a 2006 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Hatchback in Strato Blue with somewhere around 46,000 miles on it? With leather heated seats, a [...]

Probably the last and final hint, given that no one seems inspired by all of the previous ones: I have written about it here before. A few times, in [...]

In a continuation of the growing list of hints, people keep asking me if it is a new one or old [...]

To give credit where credit is due, it would appear as though those previously-mentioned paid soothsayers weathermen might have actually been right:

Not enough to matter, but probably enough to get people’s panties in [...]

Well, I was going to do another run of The Devil’s Triangle this weekend, but now that the paid soothsayers weathermen started talking about sub-freezing temperatures and the “s”-word, going into the mountains for a spirited drive [...]

To add to the list of hints, its first version debuted 45 years ago… give or take a few [...]

We made it home safe and sound rather late yesterday night… The past week has been filled with consuming far too much good turkey, playing with kittens, re-introducing my father to the shooting sports (which was a blast, in [...]

Seen on the drive home from Chicago last weekend: an honest-to-God “Girls Gone Wild” RV. And a big one, at that.
Also, a tractor trailer towing a flatbed with both a Unimog of unknown model and a Porsche [...]

I have been a little light on hints about it, so here is another: it can be found in two different colors… this time. Last time it came in [...]

Wifi on planes is somehow just wrong… it takes away the whole “but I am on a plane” excuse for not doing work while travelling…
Anywise, time to go wave at Joe Huffman as we fly over. Y’all [...]

Better Half and I are visiting my parental units out west, so do not expect too much in the way of posting over the next few days. Have a happy Thanksgiving, and be thankful that we live in one [...]

Your next hint as to what it is (and this may be sufficient for some people): it is originally from a town called “Flat [...]

It followed me home!
What is “it”? Well, here is your first hint:

Now, I have to go relax from driving 20 hours out of the past [...]

It is looking like Better Half and I will be headed up to Chicago this weekend by way of Louisville and Indianapolis on the way up, and part of Route 66 on the way back. If any fellow gunbloggers [...]