Last day, I'll say anything on Bidets. The BioBidet arrived (non electric, unheated). Plan to hook up spare hot-water dispenser to the bidet. The combined unit will either make you freeze-your-balls/make-you-fridged or burn-your-butt.
Happy New Year.
-- Edited by longprime on Monday 31st of December 2012 01:30:41 PM
PBO is really playing the R's. Last day of 2012, and PBO made an peace offering that the R's will choke on. Mitch must now be besides himself when he said to say No to everything that PBO purposes.
We need a new reconstituted R. and a separate TeaParty to keep them honest.
-- Edited by longprime on Monday 31st of December 2012 01:24:00 PM
Isn't that always the problem? The people who would be honest and do a great job, either don't get elected or decide they don't want to run. Then we end up with the self promoting, lying garbage that is left.
Have you considered running for city council or mayor? Seems like you don't have to do a lot of politicking for that (unless it's a large city), and you can have an impact on a smaller scale. Nothing wrong with that.
In high school I was absolutely certain I would be the governor of a state. Ultimately, I realized I have difficulty telling people what they want to hear if it is contrary to the truth. I would have been a great governor but there is no way I could have ever been elected.
I guess I have to blame it all on childhood. I dreamed big and just assumed that if I worked hard I would achieve all of it. As it turns out there are other people who also dreamed big and worked harder and had more talent than me. The older I get the more I am reminded of this. On the other hand, at least I don't need $50K of work on my house.
Survived getting from the airplane to the hotel, and the hotel has an indoor skybridge to a network of malls and restaurants, so I don't have to step foot outta here until the weekend is over. No more bitter cold!
I hope your realtor friend has a reasonable contractor to recommend, and thinks you don't have to do very much work to fix the house up. Funny, how we endure the bad things about our houses for years, and don't fix them up until it's time to sell! We've done that with every house we've owned. And then when we fix it up, we think, how nice this is, why are we selling?
I think most people dreamed big as children and didn't achieve their aspirations. When it comes down to it, the things we dream of are incredibly hard and most of us just didn't want it enough to do it anyways. Maybe that's why we live vicariously through our children. I fully acknowledge that I stopped all efforts to become an astronaut when I realized I wasn't smart enough nor hard working enough. And they grounded the shuttle anyways, so what the heck.
I hope samurai doesn't have 50K worth of work to do on her house! I'm sure I have many K of work to do.....but it's just not getting done.
-- Edited by busdriver11 on Saturday 8th of December 2012 03:06:45 PM
Sorry about bad weather, bus. Being cold when you aren't prepared isn't fun.
I have a neighbor who is a realtor that I trust. She is going to walk through my house and tell me what is essential and what will help sell it, instead of paying for contractor's new boat!
Stay warm!
That's awful, samurai! I would keep getting more estimates. That is crazy, what are they adding a new wing to the house? What else could cost 50K?
I think your weekend is going to be better than mine. I messed up and picked up a weekend trip (thinking it was a great deal), then found out the weather forecast is snow and temp in negative digits while I'm there. Now they won't let me drop it....and I have no cold weather clothes with me. What an idiot! Maybe I can find some gloves and a scarf where I am today (in the deep South, good luck with that one). So maybe I need more than a good workout and coffee/wine....I need to not be in the frozen tundra.
At least you have the sun! Good luck with the projects....maybe they just aren't worth doing anyways.
That is an excellent way to live, Busdriver.
Most of the time I look through that kind of lens on life. But other times, I get that panicky wake up a 3 am realization about everything, and become more like what Razorshp described.
Yesterday, I called a handyman who is also a licensed contractor out to my house. Asked him to bid on a few easy projects and suddenly he is telling me that my 5 or 6 grand project should be more like 50,000. I actually asked him if he had a boat payment to make!
So yesterday was more of a Razorsharp day. Perhaps today will be a Busdriver day!
For me, if I get a decent workout, a good cup of coffee or glass of wine, and nothing disastrous happens to me or anyone I love....it's a successful day.
If I get a hug from a kid, then it's a very successful day.
Put enough of those days together in succession, and I consider that a successful life. There's something good to be said about aiming low.
