Category: Just Me

En and I made a choice of realtors today. It was a choice between a couple of realtors. One is head and shoulders above the other. The die has been cast I think.

I used to be for the idea of inheritance taxes. It seems like a way to keep the rich from getting super richer. I’ve since changed my tune. Why? Because it does nothing except keep the middle class and upper-middle class...

You go to bed every night, and hopefully, you get a good night’s rest. Every day you wake up and you go to work. You spend your best hours each day at work, away from your family, working on stuff for other people. Sure,...

There are many bits of history that have been politicized over the centuries. Lots of things exist in terms of popular beliefs. The problem is that many of the beliefs and basically just that: “beliefs.” Beliefs that...

As the day of reckoning comes closer, I think we really need to start firming up the timeline. Realistically, it looks like we should be listing our house here when we get a house purchased in elsewhere (likely Nashville by all...

I had an interesting talk with my brother tonight… about plumbing of all things. So many things in life are knowing when you need to apply finesse to something versus when you just need to go all caveman on the problem and...

En’s friend Mike is on his way back to work in Saudi Arabia via Frankfurt. On FlightAware (as I’m posting this he’s in the air) it looks like, in En’s words, “veering off to infinity.” Then...

The unmistakable bit of yellow hanging from the tattoo shop on 2nd Avenue in Seattle. I’ve been by this place many dozens of times, but today there was the high-viz of the yellow. Sometimes movements can spread around the...

Today we talked to a realtor on the Seattle side for the first time. Step one in a long process. Step one: complete. Now we just have to talk to a few more to decide how to how. We also did a bit of cleaning today as...

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We have a janky cabinet in the bathroom that we got for cheap. Maybe $10 used. Over time the top was developing blisters as the craptastic MDF it was built from. It had a few thousandths of some white coating that was crap. Once...