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trying hard to be a better person
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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There's plenty of wood chips here to spit!
Sent by thought transference
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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hahaha...I was thinking chips of teeth from grinding them together.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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What will they do when they meet a Jack of All Trades?
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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It's horrible. You've made your house so beautiful and this little problem (LARGE problem) just doesn't want to be resolved. I feel your pain. If I believed in luck, or in people getting what they deserve, this will be the very last time you will have to worry about it. And it will be beautiful. PS - are you sure the house is not built on an ancient Native American graveyard? You know, the lost tribe that discovered Arran and then all died from hypothermia?
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Master of the Domain
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
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There comes that time in life when old folks have to downsize.... We're in that process.
We are planning to put our house on the market, and there is so much to do. Tomorrow the people are coming to refinish the living rm, dining rm and kitchen floors. Today we are emptying out the rooms of furniture, and finding all the lost children, $, toys, buttons, dust-puppies, dog hair, etc. In the morning, we'll put both dogs in the car and leave for 2 nights at my daughters house. When we get back, we meet with the real estate agents so they can tell us how much (less) our house is worth now in this economy. We have taken 2 pickup-truck loads of "stuff" to Goodwill, and the trash pick up this past week was extraordinary. I've already painted the upstairs bedrooms, bath, and hallway, and plan to do the downstairs rooms while they are still empty and the furniture is out on the front porch. If my wife and I can still stand one another after all this, ![]() we'll be looking for our next (smaller) place to live. ![]() |
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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that sounds wrenching and exciting at the same time. good thread choice.
And good luck to you and Mrs LL.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Wow Lamplighter. If I remember correctly, your house is beautiful. It must be difficult to leave it.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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Good luck Lamp, you've made it this far it'll be cool.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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Good luck with both the selling and the buying. Moving is tough. But change can be good.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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As the actress said to the bishop.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I'm dragging this morning.
Around midnight last night, after having trouble falling asleep because I was too warm, I discovered that the air conditioner was just blowing warm air on us, and that's why I had been a little warm all evening. Fuck. So I went downstairs and opened the kitchen window above the outside condenser to listen. It wasn't running. I went to the thermostat and turned off the AC, and then turned it back on. I heard a click out at the condenser as I turned it back on. The AC was trying to turn on, but wasn't able to. I turned it off again. So I went down in the basement and checked the circuit breaker. It hadn't been tripped. But I flipped the breaker off and back on anyway. But I was tired and wasn't interested in trouble shooting any more, so I opened the windows and went to bed. It was a lot cooler outside than inside anyway, so it was better. I kept thinking about what might be wrong, and it was a while before I fell asleep. This morning, I tried turning the AC on, and the condenser came right on. Yeah! It works, but I don't know what had been wrong with it, so that's got me a tad apprehensive. Then I grabbed an apple to take with my lunch, and there was water in the crisper drawer, and on the floor of the fridge. Dammit! This old house. The drain line was probably plugged, and I was already late for work. That's when my wife told me that my son had played a prank by punching a hole in the base of a can of soda, draining the soda, and filling the can with water. Apparently duct tape isn't water proof and the water leaked out of the can and inside the fridge. The little fucker. I left for work after giving him instructions to get a sponge and to mop out the fridge. At least the fridge isn't broken. In the end, everything appears to be fine. So I shouldn't complain, but ain't nobody got time for that. |
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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And it made me realize why he was asking me last night if I ever drink soda. I mostly don't, and the only reason we had any on hand was that it was purchased for a party that was canceled because of bad weather. He's the only one drinking the soda. So he was disappointed that nobody was falling for his prank. I feel a little sorry for him.
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